{"id":6998,"date":"2010-11-06T05:23:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-06T10:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6998"},"modified":"2010-11-06T05:23:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-06T10:23:32","slug":"rotten-burgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6998","title":{"rendered":"Rotten Burgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aht.seriouseats.com\/archives\/2010\/11\/the-burger-lab-revisiting-the-myth-of-the-12-year-old-burger-testing-results.html\">The Burger Lab: Revisiting the Myth of The 12-Year Old McDonald&#8217;s Burger That Just Won&#8217;t Rot (Testing Results!)<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Dozens of other examples exist, and most of them come to the same conclusion: McDonald&#8217;s hamburgers don&#8217;t rot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The problem with coming to that conclusion, of course, is that if you are a believer in science (and I certainly hope you are!), in order to make a conclusion, you must first start with a few observable premises as a starting point with which you form a theorem, followed by a reasonably rigorous experiment with controls built in place to verify the validity of that theorem.<br \/>\nThus far, I haven&#8217;t located a single source that treats this McDonald&#8217;s hamburger phenomenon in this fashion. Instead, most rely on speculation, specious reasoning, and downright obtuseness to arrive at the conclusion that a McDonald&#8217;s burger &#8220;is a chemical food[, with] absolutely no nutrition.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burger Lab: Revisiting the Myth of The 12-Year Old McDonald&#8217;s Burger That Just Won&#8217;t Rot (Testing Results!) Dozens of other examples exist, and most of them come to the same conclusion: McDonald&#8217;s hamburgers don&#8217;t rot. The problem with coming &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6998\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-other-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}