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April 17, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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FAST FOOD FROM 2014 won't decompose! See the Mike Adams "Time Capsule" of fast food
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Alright, welcome to today's science experiment here at the Brighton Studios.
I'm Mike Adams, the health ranger, the founder of brighton.com, and the founder of our laboratory, CWC Labs.
And today I have with me, well, it's the Museum of Fast Food History.
So, let's show the camera there.
What you're looking at right there, this is McDonald's from the year 2014.
So, you can see on top there, that's an apple pie.
And one of their barbecue burgers.
And then in the other ones, you can see there's chicken McNuggets in the bottom center.
And there's french fries on the top right up there.
There's a Big Mac in the mix here.
Now, none of this has decomposed.
None of this molded.
None of it got eaten by microbes.
And I just want to tell you...
I didn't do anything special to preserve these.
All I did was I bought them and I put them in these plexiglass containers and I sealed the lids and that's it.
I didn't take the oxygen out.
I didn't take the humidity out.
Nothing. I mean, this is all just McDonald's.
I put it in these containers 11 years ago.
And what we're going to do here today is we're going to take a look at this food under our digital microscope.
We happen to have set up here because we're doing lots of fun experiments.
So let's take a look at some French fries and maybe some chicken McNuggets.
How about that?
Let's put them on the microscope and see, has it changed in 11 years or is it still the same?
Let me grab some samples here.
Man, this lid is tight.
There we go.
Alright, so here's a French fry.
Thank you.
Chicken nugget.
Mmm. Big Mac patty.
Yeah. Alright, so here we go.
The time machine.
McDonald's time machine.
Chicken nugget from 2014.
Big Mac patty from 2014.
And a french fry from 2014.
I think this is going to be interesting.
So let's start with the Big Mac patty under the microscope from, again, from 2014.
Time traveling, fast food.
All right, so we are at 20x zoom right now, and this is what the Big Mac patty looks like.
Let me adjust the lighting, see if we can get something.
So there we go.
Looks pretty much the same as a Big Mac in 2025.
Doesn't it?
And yeah, I mean, all kinds of little meat-like substances in here.
So that's what the Big Mac looks like, or at least the patty of the Big Mac.
Okay, so let's go to the chicken nugget now.
And I took the fried part off.
There's the fried skin you can see, and then the inner chicken, allegedly.
And I don't know about you, but I mean, this looks exactly the same as a chicken nugget from 2025.
Because we also have chicken McNuggets over there, too, that we just bought for this purpose.
And then we're going to look at a french fry from 2014.
And there it is.
There we go.
There's our french fry.
It looks like a french fry.
And if we zoom in, you know, we're going to see various little artifacts of fried potatoes, right?
That's what we would expect that to look like.
But the weird thing is that nothing has eaten this.
It's like, why isn't there any example of this being eaten?
You know, where's, let me show a different view here.
Where's the mold?
Where's the bacteria?
Normally, if you put so-called food like this out in nature, something's going to eat it.
Or even if you put it in a container, it's going to mold.
You've probably seen that even in your refrigerator.
Things mold even when they're refrigerated.
This fast food from 2014 hasn't disintegrated, deteriorated, hasn't been Eaten by anything.
So, let me grab another sample, show you another look here.
So here's a fish filet sandwich from 2014.
I mean, it still looks like basically the same thing.
It's still a fish filet sandwich from 2014.
Like, why didn't anything eat it?
Why didn't bacteria eat it?
I'm not going to eat it.
I wouldn't eat it back then when it was new.
And now here it is, 11 years old, still the same fish filet sandwich.
Something seems wrong with that to me, you know, as a food scientist.
It's like, how many preservatives exactly are in this?
You know, that literally nothing is eating it.
Not even the bacteria floating around.
Nothing is eating it.
So, I'll tell you what.
Fish filet sandwich, right?
Let's stick it under the microscope.
See what kind of nastiness.
We might discover here.
Alright, here we go.
Alright, so there's the fish fillet sandwich under the microscope.
Pretty much looks like what you would expect.
Looks like a fish fillet sandwich.
You know, the fried part.
You know, here's...
I don't know where the fish is.
This is all just fried breading and such.
Mmm, yummy.
Does this look like your favorite lunch right here?
McDonald's from 2014?
Look, it's a cave.
Yeah. Luke Skywalker escaped from that.
And the Empire Strikes Back.
No. What is this?
So, I don't know.
You tell me.
Is there a fish fillet in here somewhere?
Maybe if we break it open?
Fast food archaeology?
Let's do that.
Okay, let's break off a corner of this sucker.
Oh. There we go.
It broke in half.
And now we have...
There's the fish.
Like the fish flesh part right there.
And I'm getting this all over my hands, too.
I don't want to do that.
So, what do you think?
Does it look like fish?
Maybe? Like dried fish, yeah.
It kind of looks like dried fish.
There's a pretty good shot right there.
Some of the fish.
So again, why is nothing eating this?
That's my question.
Now it is kind of disintegrating now here on the desk.
It's not holding together that well.
But nothing has eaten it.
So let's go back over here.
Hot and spicy chicken.
Big Mac, the chicken nuggets, barbecue, ranch, burger.
And what is this one?
A McDouble.
So this is a McDouble that's kind of crumbling, but are there really two patties in there?
I mean, again, nothing's...
Nothing's going away.
It's all still here.
Okay, one more to show you, folks.
McDonald's apple pie from 2014.
Okay, the apple pie, it's still here.
I mean, it looks the same as a brand new apple pie, doesn't it?
For the most part, I mean, maybe there's a little bit of discoloration of it, but it's still the same.
Shall we look at this under the microscope?
Let's do that.
Okay, well there we go.
There's the apple pie crust and some of the filling.
There we go.
Still looks the same.
Still crazy after all these years.
There we go.
The great indestructible apple pie.
This thing is more indestructible than passports of the 9-11.
Bombers, actually, it turns out, or the pilots.
Like, this stuff can withstand anything.
They should make highway overpasses out of McDonald's apple pies.
No, seriously, I'm not suggesting that there's anything in here that's illegal or that violates health codes or anything like that.
I'm just saying, when it's food, isn't it supposed to sort of deteriorate, maybe?
Or have...
Mold grow on?
Do you see any mold at all?
There's no mold.
Nothing wants to eat this.
And definitely not myself either.
But there's no mold.
There's no bacteria that I can see.
Nothing wants to eat this.
So why are you eating it?
Or why is anybody eating this stuff?
What does it do to you if it's practically sort of embalming food in a sense?
It lasts forever.
Is it for longevity?
I doubt it.
Something seems really off to me about this, but what we're going to do here at brighttown.com is we're going to take a closer look at other fast food companies and some of their products in subsequent sessions using our microscope because back in 2014 I went out and bought a lot of fast food and put it in containers like this and I've been keeping it this entire time.
In order to film this exact segment right here.
It's the Fast Food Time Traveling Museum.
And it's worse than I thought.
Okay, so thank you for watching today.
There's more coming.
I'm Mike Adams with brighttown.com.
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