Comments on: Zombie French Fries from Hell

By: Tom L

Tom L — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:49:47 +0000

Those french fries aren’t zombies. They’re mummies.

By: Virgil Samms

Virgil Samms — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:02:07 +0000

There’s no mystery here, McDonald’s removes the moisture from their fries before they ship them. They fry up more consistent and crisp that way. Notice the lack of condensation in the jar. As someone has already noted, this has absolutely no connection to what happens to food when you put it in your body.

By: Don Smith, FCD

Don Smith, FCD — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:56:20 +0000

Dried out and salted. Where have I heard that before? Oh, yeah, that’s how you preserve food!

You want to see those babies rot, just add water…

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:46:32 +0000

This is why I eat cashews instead of french fries as snacks. When you find them days, weeks, months later they’re still totally edible.

By: Romeo Vitelli

Romeo Vitelli — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:23:19 +0000

Judging from my own experiments, i.e. McDonalds french fries that fall under my car seat and get found a month later, those french fries become rock hard after a short while. I wouldn’t recommend eating one then (not if you don’t want to end up with dentures).

By: Anon

Anon — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:03:10 +0000

Dude put the burgers in the jars with his bare hands… but poured the fries in without touching. Assuming, of course, clean-room conditions and sterile jars (what?), the big conclusion I can draw from this experiment is…

Wash immediately if you ever shake hands with this guy.

By: pwl

pwl — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:44:52 +0000

It looks like they are irradiating their fries so that they last forever or the next best thing to forever when it comes to food that should rot, 10 weeks. Or do they use preservatives? If so which? Is it even food? Should we stockpile in case of emergencies? Yes, go into McDonalds and ask may we have 1,000 orders of large fries please!

By: Stephen Moore

Stephen Moore — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:37:44 +0000

If you have McDonald’s french fries sitting in your gut for 10 weeks I think you’d have more pressing problems than they looking much the same as they did the day you ate them.

It’s an interesting experiment, but using it to ask the question “What’s this doing to you body when you eat it?” is a bit of stretch. Half fill the jar with HCl acid, dump the fries in, and then see what happens over the next three days. On the third day, dump the contents of the jar. That would provide a better approximation of what the fries are doing to one’s body.