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Burger time.

I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Lebe. And this is Ghost Town. We've done many an episode on fast food culture, products, and marketing trends.

Beyond that, of course, as a personal fascination of mine, we've also dove into the specific identity of McDonald's and how it's evolved and changed over the years.

Well, this episode is not like that. In a strange pivot, a different trend, I guess, if you can

call it that, has been brought to my attention, one where consumers are buying and saving fast food in an effort to showcase just how

many preservatives there are in the product, or perhaps how strong their gag reflexes, strong.

In that spirit, today on Ghost Town, we bring you another bizarre tale of fast food, the world's

oldest McDonald's hamburger.

If I told you McDonald's burgers don't really decompose, of course you probably wouldn't be

surprised. There have been a lot of disgusting stories of McDonald's food production that defy nature,

like the woman who left her burger out for a year and it looked the same, or McDonald's pink

goo and chicken nuggets, or the variety of imaginative meats that go into a burger. Think

eyeballs, earthworms, or even humans. However, none really compared to this true story

of a seemingly immortal Australian quarter-pounder that has never

shown signs of decay despite being bought almost three decades ago. Back in 1995, Aussie friends

Casey Dean and Edwards Knits bought a quarter-pounder with cheese from a McDonald's and Adelaide

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