Man Keeps Fast-Food Burger For 14 Years, And It’s Still Good As New
Published: April 23, 2013
Man Keeps Fast-Food Burger For 14 Years, And It’s Still Good As New, Hungry? This nearly 14-year-old burger – purchased by David Whipple in Logan, Utah, on July 7, 1999 – looks remarkably unaffected by time: no mold, no fungus, no bugs, no apparent difference from a freshly made fast-food burger. Whipple said he bought the burger to show how enzymes work, thinking he might keep it for a month. Then he wrapped it up, shoved it in a coat pocket and forgot about it. When he rediscovered it more than a year later, it looked precisely the same. “They have all these preservatives in food to increase the shelf life,” “The Doctors” co-host Jim Sears notes. “But what does that do to OUR shelf life?” Something to chew on over lunch.