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Food & Drink

Year-Old Happy Meal Just as Delicious as the Day It Was Made

by Paul Constant • Mar 24, 2010 at 2:48 pm

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Geekologie linked to a pretty amazing experiment: A woman bought a Happy Meal and kept it in her office for a year. After one year, it looks the same as the day she bought it:

My Happy Meal is one year old today and it looks pretty good. It NEVER smelled bad. The food did NOT decompose. It did NOT get moldy, at all.

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This morning, I took it off my shelf to take a birthday photo.

Part of the photo of the year-old food is at left. If you ask me, this is a grosser (and more effective) experiment than Morgan Spurlock's Super-Size Me.

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