McDonald’s burger believed to be the world’s oldest Quarter Pounder turns 30: ‘It’s no longer food’

What’s believed to be the world’s oldest McDonald’s Quarter Pounder is about to celebrate a milestone birthday.

Casey Dean and Eduards Nits purchased the Quarter Pounder — since dubbed the “Senior Burger” by its keepers — from a Golden Arches location in Australia back in 1995, and this November, the old burger turns 30.

Dean and Nits have kept the Senior Burger carefully wrapped in its original, McD’s-stamped beige paper packaging all this time — though it looks like it hasn’t aged a day.

Despite having never been refrigerated and spending the past 30 years being stuffed in cupboards, garbage bags and sheds, it’s still “eerily intact” and hasn’t developed any mold or bad odor, Dean, a dog trainer and musician, told SFGate.

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“Not even freeze dried meat would be recommended for human consumption by then.”

Freeze dried food , and frozen food is edible indefinitely. Case in point scientists ate 50,000 year old bison that was frozen and desiccated in permafrost. They made a stew of it and were fine. There can be no bacterial life in subzero frozen or less than 5% moisture by mass that’s just biological fact.

Hermetically sealed canned food has been eaten 100 years after it was canned some from the seafloor where it say gor the duration. Again sterilized hermetically sealed containers do not allow bacterial life either. Only rarely anoxic bacteria get past the sterilization process and then you have contaminated canned food which would be obvious from the gasses they produce inside the can it a rare and a flaw in the process not that bacteria can just spontaneously appear inside a sealed sterilized container.

I personally have eaten MCI aka C-rats from the Vietnam war era in the 1990s well over 20 years old stored in the Texas heat in quonset huts on a base since well Vietnam.We were fine it was a right of passage on your first FTX with the unit. I also have eaten frozen venison that was at least ten years old vacuum sealed found after my grandfather passed in the garage freezers I remember shooting and packing that meat as a kid at least a decade before. Again meh not a big deal frozen food is good indefinitely the FDA also agrees it’s in their guidelines if one take the time to look. Freeze dried food is good for decades you can buy 25 year freeze dried prepper food stocks it’s Gucci expensive. Or you can get a vacuum pump and make a unit yourself as a prepper I did it takes two weeks to completely dry soups or chillis, solid meats also take at least two weeks it’s then self stable as long as it’s sealed and dry for all eternity organisms simply cannot grow in a bone dry environment. I pack that homemade food all over the wilderness for weeks at a time while hunting it doing geology work never seen refrigeration since it came out of the vacuum unit.

“I call BS on that.”

There is a gym in Frisco / Colony Texas that has a glass case with a cheese burger from McD in the case it’s ten plus years old looks the same as new. This experiment has been done hundreds of times. The burger rapidly dehydrates and the combination of being desiccated and the preservatives keeps the mold and bacteria off it. As long as it’s dry it will just sit there. That case at the gym is an example of why you shouldn’t put garbage in your body.

Just a couple of weeks ago I found a can of corned beef at the back of a cupboard. The expiration date was in March of 2008, so of course I opened it and made a sandwich. It didn’t make me sick, but it tasted pretty metallic and I tossed the remainder.

I’ve also eaten decades-old C-rats with no ill effects, and meat that’s been frozen for years in a sealed vacuum pouch. What I won’t eat is anything from a can that is bulged, or that indicates pressure when the can is opened, or anything that smells spoiled.

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