Ok, so its been a little bit longer than days since my first post about my maccas burger, but when I filmed this video and wrote this blog, it WAS 40 days, I've just been a little slow in pressing the 'Post' button. The world has changed a lot in this time, but the burger hasn’t much at all! It seems to have shrunk a little and the bun is so hard that it could cause some serious damage to someone if it got dropped from a building. It could even possibly break a footpath. Inside, the burger looks a bit shrunk but mould free, the cheese is pure plastic and the sauce is hard. The fries have gone crispy and brown and are also bullet hard. They still look quite greasy. There is still that greasy maccas smell present as well. In conclusion, the burger and fries are wrongtown.
But what does this mean? Well as I see it, as the burger has shrunk as it has dehydrated. This means that there was moisture in it when I bought it. Mould, fungi and bacteria love moisture, as they need this to survive. Yet none of these creatures decided to take up residence here when the burger was been sitting out when moist! Has the preservatives in this “food” outweighed something to make this burger hospitable to live in?
One other thing I have to point out... this burger lives in my office on a bookshelf. It is easily accessible by mice, rats, flies, ants, roaches, cats, dogs, lions, tigers, dinosaurs... yet NONE of these creatures came in to investigate or eat my burger. I was a bit disappointed about the lack of dinosaurs. The only interested creatures were humans, as I gave my burger a show & tell session at a baby shower I was hosting. So who knows real food more – humans or rodents?
Dehydrating Food
So I mentioned in my last post that I would talk about other reasons why this burger wouldn’t age. And one reason is something I have touched on already – dehydration. Dehydration is one of the oldest methods of preservation – it is food in which all the moisture has been taken out of it, thereby preserving it. As I said earlier, mould, fungi and bacteria thrive on moisture, so dehydration is a fabulous method of preservation, as long as the food has been dehydrated properly!
Good things about dehydrated food...
- Preserves food for months
- No need to refrigerate
- Make your own healthy snacks rather than store bought snacks
- Dehydrated food keeps its nutritional values
You can buy dehydraters at department stores and online. You can also make your own dehydrated food by using an oven on a low temperature setting with the door left ajar (you keep the food in it for a long time), or sun drying your food (just make sure that its a sunny day with no rain and your food remains bug free!)
In regards to this in conjunction with the maccas burger, if it has totally dehydrated, then it is preserved and therefore not going to age. I did some research on how long does dehydrated food last, but I couldn’t any conclusive time periods. Dehydrated food not exposed to oxygen can last 15 years. But this burger is exposed to oxygen... will it start to disintergrate?
What is Grimace?
I also mentioned in my last blog that I would talk about Grimace. The happy go lucky purple blob mascot for Maccas. What is he? The definition of the word grimace is: A twisted expression on a person's face, typically expressing disgust, pain, or wry amusement. Yes, well when naming happy food mascots, Grimace is obviously the first word I can think of which would make sense! (0.o) I have come to the conclusion that he is an enlarged fatty liver who shows kiddies what happens if you live a life of just eat maccas. His shape if put on the side is definitely liverish –
See where I'm coming from here?
He seems to be not too bright, showing decreased brain function, which happens when your liver isn’t working properly and you only eat maccas. Case closed.
Seriously Ronald, take him to rehab and save his life!
I had to include this picture in the blog, cracks me up, Ronald scares me so I would react exactly the same -
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