A Man Kept a McDonald's Burger for 10 Years, and It Still Looks Fresh

Does this food never decompose?

In 2009, McDonald's closed all its restaurants in Iceland, and before that a man decided to buy his last hamburger and french fries. Reports BBC.

Hjortur Smarason, who kept the food for 10 years, had heard that food from McDonald's never decomposes, so he wanted to check personally whether this was true. This week the burger and fries turned 10 years old, and the food still looks as if it was cooked yesterday.

Now the hamburger and fries are considered “historical specimens” and are kept at the Snotra House hostel in southern Iceland. The hostel owner has even launched a livestream where anyone can see what 10-year-old McDonald's meals look like. According to him, “it's all funny, of course, but it makes you think about what we eat”.

There is no mold on the food, only the paper packaging has yellowed slightly. People from all over the world come to see the burger in person, and up to 400,000 comments appear on the website every day.

By the end of this year, McDonald's in one of Canada's cities will be running test sales of a burger with a plant-based “meat”.