Do McDonald's Burgers Ever Actually Go Bad?

Food & Wine ^ | July 8, 2024 | Stacey Leasca

[Clay Moore]

I put the little McDonalds hamburgers in my officers bunker coat pockets at the fire station several times. They would be months old sometimes when he found them and they looked about the same as when I put them in there. They just desiccated a bit and the “meat” never rotted. Luckily, he didn’t carry anything in his inside breast pocket so he never checked it.

[GOPJ]

Big Mac Sauce, revealing it's a combination of mayonnaise, a quarter cup of sweet pickle relish, two tablespoons of Dusseldorf Mustard, and one teaspoon of white wine vinegar, along with one and one-fourth teaspoon of paprika, one teaspoon of onion powder, one teaspoon of granulated garlic, and one-eighth a teaspoon of white pepper.

Dusseldorf Mustard?

[roving]

Do they ever serve hot burgers?

[roving]

I tried that. I didn’t think it tasted very good.

[scouter]

Mmmmm… Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions, on a sasame seed bun.

Haven’t had one in a few years, but man, I can taste it now and I want one!

But I wanna live more.

[tet68]

FYI. Everything at McDs is cooked by a timer, when to put the patties on, when to flip them, then put the buns in the toaster and when that alarm goes off the patties are done and it all can be assembled. The buns have a slightly higher sugar count
Which lets them get the right shade of brown in the amount of time they are I the toaster.

[HartleyMBaldwin]

a combination of mayonnaise, a quarter cup of sweet pickle relish, two tablespoons of Dusseldorf Mustard, and one teaspoon of white wine vinegar, along with one and one-fourth teaspoon of paprika, one teaspoon of onion powder, one teaspoon of granulated garlic, and one-eighth a teaspoon of white pepper.

How much mayonnaise? A teaspoon? Two gallons?

[Lumper20]

You buy any stock?

[Bullish]

File this under things you never really cared about.

[nwrep]

I did not buy McD’s.

[right way right]

I don’t understand why anyone would think that they would NOT go bad.

Why are people so stupid?….nevermind.

I like a nice double quarter pounder with cheese once in a while.
I skip the ketchup on the burger and the fries and glycemic effect is not really very bad at all on my diabetes.

There are many, many worse choices.

My dog loves a lone beef patty when I take her after a nice walk.

[Lumper20]

Sorry.

[Nervous Tick]

If you for some insane reason buy junk food to store for the apocalypse rather than wolfing it down immediately in your car, then there’s something wrong with you. Most likely, you’re not even human, let alone American.

[dfwgator]

I agree with Steve Martin:

“I have a theory about McDonald’s, that is, everything they make is all one thing, and in the back they have this big vat full of this stuff, these little molds combining, like SPLURT ‘Hamburger!’ SPLURT ‘Malt!’ SPLURT ‘Paper box!’ SPLURT ‘Here’s your change, thank you!’”

[faithhopecharity]

Ha
There are certainly fine very corrosive aspects in the culture nowadays

[God luvs America]

I’m sorry 8 asked

[9YearLurker]

Sadly true.

[catnipman]

“they had all turned to near dust- not sure how”

it might be some kind of built-in fail-safe mechanism, you know, like how the mission tape on “Mission Impossible” always self-destructs after being heard only one time ...

or not ...

[Bob434]

LOL- it came this close <——> to making me ill