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<blockquote data-quote="Doc Manhattan" data-source="post: 122190" data-attributes="member: 341"><p>I cannot call this photograher's project an 'experiment', at least not in the scientific sense. <em>Super-Size Me</em> took real, experimental rigors that she didn't. There's no control, no standardization, no report of influential conditions (temp, relative humidity), no non-anecdotal documentation of handling conditions.</p><p></p><p>All food, fast or not, has to do to be well-preserved is to dessicate completely before it rots. If it dries slowly enough, it won't change form substantially--country ham, for instance, loses some volume but not its shape, and the exterior changes color from oxidization. A McDonald's burger, like most burgers, has a head start, as it is laden with salt, much of its moisture is cooked out, and its exterior is already oxidised. So sure, it's essentially a mummy, which is not all that appetizing, but not cause for alarm.</p><p></p><p><em>Super-Size Me</em> is great, though--it's more a story of economics and advertising than food.</p><p></p><p>(Anyone seen Doug Benson's <em>Super-High Me</em>? I was surprised--it's not hard documentary, of course, but it was entertaining and fairly objective.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Doc Manhattan, post: 122190, member: 341"] I cannot call this photograher's project an 'experiment', at least not in the scientific sense. [i]Super-Size Me[/i] took real, experimental rigors that she didn't. There's no control, no standardization, no report of influential conditions (temp, relative humidity), no non-anecdotal documentation of handling conditions. All food, fast or not, has to do to be well-preserved is to dessicate completely before it rots. If it dries slowly enough, it won't change form substantially--country ham, for instance, loses some volume but not its shape, and the exterior changes color from oxidization. A McDonald's burger, like most burgers, has a head start, as it is laden with salt, much of its moisture is cooked out, and its exterior is already oxidised. So sure, it's essentially a mummy, which is not all that appetizing, but not cause for alarm. [i]Super-Size Me[/i] is great, though--it's more a story of economics and advertising than food. (Anyone seen Doug Benson's [i]Super-High Me[/i]? I was surprised--it's not hard documentary, of course, but it was entertaining and fairly objective.) [/QUOTE]
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