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   From: mimus99@gmail.com   
      
   Utah man David Whipple has managed to hang on to a hamburger from   
   McDonald's since 1999. The extraordinary part isn't the fact that he   
   didn't throw the burger out, though-- it's that the burger barely   
   looks like it has aged.   
      
   Appearing by phone on the TV show "The Doctors" recently, Whipple   
   explained that the burger was discovered many years ago in his coat   
   pocket, oddly enough. It looked the same then as it does now.   
      
   Whipple isn't the only one to discover this non-rotting burger   
   phenomenon. In 2010, J. Kenji López-Alt conducted a series of tests   
   for Serious Eats to figure out if various burgers would rot over time.   
   He found that "the burger doesn't rot because its small size and   
   relatively large surface area help it to lose moisture very fast.   
   Without moisture, there's no mold or bacterial growth" . . . :   
      
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/23/worlds-oldest-hamburger   
   mcdonalds_n_3139231.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003   
      
   I notice nobody was volunteering to eat the thing.   
      
   And it looked suspiciously un-squashed, and foithermore who buys a dry   
   burger?   
      
   Suspicious, suspicious, very suspicious.   
      
   --   
      
   Maybe we should sic snopes.com on this.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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