tags: McDonald's food, science experiment, streaming video
So, this video of a science experiment is especially for those of you who enjoy eating at McDonald's. I thought you would enjoy it, but to cut the suspense, I'll tell you that the fries won, okay? They won!
OMG!!! PLEASE give me some insight on this...what is in the fries,either as they are made or in the oil they are being fried in, to keep them from "breaking down"? Geeesh,living in a small village with NO fast food,as such, it has always been a "treat" for me to go to a fast food place when I ever get to town or on a road trip. Guess I'll pack a sandwich of my own from now on........
Well, the big difference between the fries and the other stuff is the moisture content; even the large-cut regular fries had a large amount of moisture in them. All of the jars except for the McD fries showed quite a bit of condensation on the glass -- without all that moisture, the McD fries simply hardened and didn't provide a good medium for much of anything to grow upon.
G Barnett has it, the prime factor is moisture content. The allegation that this experiment has any relationship to what happens in your digestive tract is baseless. When you eat food, it is first soaked in a vat of acid, then exposed to various digestive enzymes in a wet environment.
I knew this already - combine children, visits to McD's drive-thru and a tendency to procrastinate cleaning up the car and, voila, several-months-old mummified fries which look almost fresh.
Would have been cooler if they had allowed flies to get in, then there'd be maggots crawling everywhere. Watching mould grow is kind of boring. =)
I don't really want to know how the office smelled during that experiment.