Monday, January 10, 2005

The Smoking Fry

I watched Super Size Me last night. Perhaps many of you have already seen it. If you haven't it, it's about a guy who decides to eat McDonald's every meal for a month to see what happens to his body, which isn't pretty. But even if you saw it in the theater, one of the bonus features on the DVD is really amazing. He takes McDonald's food and also some real food from an independent burger place and places them in a jar to see how they decompose. The burgers from both places and the fries from the corner shop all decompose pretty quickly. But the McDonald's fries simply do not decompose. No mold, no change in color, no nothing. Even after 10 weeks when the fries were accidentally thrown out, no decomposition at all. Probably one of the most disgusting things I've ever seen.