Happy Meals are immortal.

Happy Meals immune to decay?

To paraphrase William Faulkner:

When the last dingdong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, even then there will still be one more sight: happy meals.

I stand back in wordless wonder when I contemplate how much we've added to our marvelous blue and green sphere.

Reader comment:

These 'non-rotting' happy meals turn up all the time. The most recent one was from Colorado. The thing is, they are never a case of food that can't rot, but more a case of food that is dried out.

We all know dry food doesn't rot, and there are even websites out there giving you instructions on how to dry out fast food - god only knows why.

To test this theory I put a McDonald's Cheeseburger, a Burger King Cheeseburger, and a home made organic Cheeseburger together with a suitable amount of humidity and lo and behold, they all rotted.

The explanation and daily reports are all here.