Posted on 04/28/2022 12:27:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
A husband and wife in Crystal Lake, Illinois, were recently renovating their home when they unearthed something deliciously strange inside one of the bathroom walls: a pair of balled-up McDonald’s hamburger wrappers and a remarkably well-preserved bag of McDonald’s french fries.
The unusual discovery is now causing quite a stir on social media. The food’s wrappers are without McDonald’s famous golden arches and emblazoned with the 1950s McDonald’s mascot, Speedee, a predecessor of Ronald McDonald.
The antiquated packaging can only mean one thing. The leftover fries — which homeowner Rob Jones declared “still perfectly crispy” — are extremely old. In fact, they may be 63 years old.
In a social media post about his family’s discovery, Rob Jones noted that one of the original McDonald’s locations is located just about a half-mile from his home. His story checks out. According to NBC News, Chamber of Commerce records show that an early McDonald’s opened in the area in 1959, the same year the Jones’ house was built.
It seems a construction worker may have purchased the burgers and fries, then costing 15 cents and 10 cents, respectively, and forgot to dispose of them before closing up a wall.
from mildlyinteresting
Commenters on social media celebrated the finding, branding Jones an archaeologist and the new record-holder for “oldest McD’s found in walls.”
But Rob and his wife, Grace Jones, who have children ages 2 and 5, said they were just thankful it was only fast food — and not something more sinister.
“We were expecting the worst. We were both like, ‘Oh, my gosh, we’re going to be unveiling a cold case here,’” Grace told NBC News on Wednesday, laughing. “I was shielding my kids in case there was any dried blood.”
“Not a cold case, just some cold fries,” she said, relieved. “They were very well preserved.”
Rob Jones confirmed to Newsweek that he made the discovery while adding a built-in toilet paper holder to his bathroom. To do so, he had to cut out a small portion of the wall. That’s when he noticed a “piece of cloth stuck behind plaster” and pulled it out to show his wife.
“It was balled up and we could tell there was something else inside,” he recalled. “When we unwrapped it and found the old McDonald’s bag and fries we were very surprised and grateful that is all we found hidden.”
And a pack of Twinkies...................
My parent’s/our first house had one of those razor disposal slots, in the med cabinet.
I wonder what all of those razors look like, today....rusted completely?
How did they taste?
Are you THAT WELL PRESERVED?.................
Probably the same.................😜
Fried in tallow?
Better than today’s!
And they still taste the same! 😃🤣😁
j/k
In 1970 I could get a hamburger and a Coke and get change back from a dollar.
Great.
I have one of THOSE stories. 🙄🙄🙄
French fries are known for lasting nearly forever in petrified states.
A little bit unrelated but back in the early 1990s when working as a summer student, I helped out a local building contractor who had a contract with one of the local school boards to do renovation work in the gyms and elsewhere. This fellow had in his office an old six pack of empty small bottles of Canada Dry Ginger Ale, complete with the paper package that the distinctive looking bottles came in.
Apparently, he was working at a school about a year or so earlier when he had to go into a storage room that wasn’t used terribly often and off in a corner was this six pack of empty bottles. He figured in a time no later than about 1969 or 1970, someone probably put the bottles there (when you could bring empty pop bottles for refunds) and forgot about them until they were finally discovered years later.
I have a cookie from my grandfathers C rations in WWI it looks brand new.
Because there is a constant war against McDonald’s. FR posters are some of the worst about it.
Amazing to me that so much nutritional density can be purchased for so little, yet people feel the need to virtue signal about how they would never eat it.
"Grace Jones"
I seem to recall reading a story about how one of the cabins/supply depots that the early Antarctic explorers used was discovered in a more recent time and the foodstuffs were still there in their distinctive tins and packages and in perfectly edible and useable condition. Certainly and obviously owing to the conditions there, but still interesting to read about.
Can’t believe tht’s all theyfound
McDonald’s used to be “fast food”. Now it’s just “food”...sort of...eventually.
No kidding. LOL.
They don’t make things to last like they used to.
I just turned 63, and I feel ancient...
Are you still crispy? ;-P
These are like the charcoal of foods. Pretty much last
forever. Draw your own conclusions.
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