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Thirty years after a teenage boy ordered a McDonald’s Quarter Pounder,<\/a> it still looks good enough to eat \u2014 although its owners insist it is “no longer food.”<\/p>\n

The story began in Adelaide, South Australia, in November 1995 when teenagers Eduards Nits and Casey Dean asked Nits’ sister to take them to a McDonald’s drive-thru. It had been a long day in the studio following Dean’s win in a local battle of the bands, SFGate reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

A third friend with them couldn’t finish his Quarter Pounder \u2014 so Nits said he would hold onto it until the friend came back to visit them in Adelaide.<\/p>\n

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“Being teenagers, we ordered a truckload of food, and it was just way too much,” Dean told AFP<\/a> in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We were joking, ‘Imagine if we kept this forever,’ and here we are.”<\/p>\n

The friend never returned to claim his burger, and Nits’ mother begged him to get rid of it since it had been sitting on his desk for weeks.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But the teen stashed it away in a box instead. Over time, it became part of the “family.” Nits’ mother, a teacher, even brought it to school to show it off to her students.<\/p>\n

The burger was never refrigerated and spent most of its life in cupboards, garbage bags and sheds. It even traveled across Australia years later with Nits’ sister as she moved between military bases with her husband.<\/p>\n

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To this day, the so-called “Senior Burger” remains “eerily intact,” Dean told SFGate upon its 30th anniversary. The burger is still wrapped in its original waxy beige paper featuring 1990s-era McDonald’s branding.<\/p>\n

Dean and Nits have since shared the story on Russian television and local news outlets. They caught the attention of podcaster Joe Rogan<\/a> \u2014 who joked in 2015 that the burger was “disturbing,” after the story first went viral internationally \u2014 and the two even launched a YouTube livestream featuring the decades-old patty.<\/p>\n

Dean, a musician and dog trainer, became the public face of the “Senior Burger,” while Nits, a bricklayer from Adelaide, has actually kept and preserved the burger all this time, according to reports.<\/p>\n

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“The only thing that’s happened is it’s shrunk in size,” Nits told SFGate.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The men have also told other outlets that the burger has hardened, yet it hasn’t developed any odor or mold. “It’s no longer food,” Nits added. “It just looks like artwork.”<\/p>\n

But the friends are not the only keepers of long-lasting McDonald’s relics.<\/a><\/p>\n

A Utah man who purchased a McDonald’s burger in 1999 also discovered that it stayed mostly intact after more than two decades, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n

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And Melana Monroe, a grandmother from Texas, has held onto a McDonald’s hamburger she bought nearly 30 years ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

She originally purchased it for a science experiment, tossed it in her car trunk and forgot about it \u2014 only to later realize that it never rotted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Monroe’s daughter and granddaughter helped make it famous after sharing the find in 2020 on TikTok, where the clip went viral<\/a> with millions of views.<\/p>\n

“The burger belongs to American culture,” Monroe’s daughter, Katie Frug\u00e9, told SFGate. “It\u2019s kind of an American icon.”<\/p>\n

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That viral moment prompted McDonald’s to address the long-running myth that its burgers “never rot,” explaining that the food simply dried out in a moisture-free environment, which prevents mold and bacteria from growing.<\/p>\n

“In the right environment, our burgers, like most other foods, could decompose,” the company said at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Look closely \u2014 the burgers you are seeing are likely dried out and dehydrated and by no means ‘the same as the day they were purchased.'”<\/p>\n

McDonald’s added that its burgers are made only with 100% USDA-inspected beef, with “no preservatives or fillers,” and that “the only thing ever added is a touch of salt and pepper<\/a> on the grill.”<\/p>\n

Several experts previously said the lack of moisture and high salt content, combined with the burger’s small size, likely helped preserve it.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to McDonald’s for further comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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