At my parents motorcycle shop a mechanic's breakfast, a McDonalds egg
McMuffin with bacon was hidden away in a pocket on a motorcycle fairing
by one of the other mechanics. (They were always being mischievious)

The mechanic forgot about his breakfast and all was forgotton until...

the fairing was retrieved from the shelf 10 or more years later to be
installed once again upon a motorcycle. The pocket was opened looking
for fairing mounts and the McMuffin was rediscovered to all's amazement.

It looked just like the day it was made. Not a trace of anything growing
on it. Was it stale? Sure felt like it. Could you eat it without dying?
Probably. Would I eat it? Hell NO! I don't eat shit like that in the
first place! Arizona's dry climate and lack of air conditioning at the
shop probably "mummified" it.

We even sent it to the mechanic that "lost" it. After all it was his.
We didn't mention it was 10 years old. No he didn't eat it.

Bart

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Wayne Boatwright wrote:
> On Thu 28 Apr 2005 09:20:51p, Adam Preble wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>
>>Tim923 wrote:
>>
>>>I notice some people sell unopened soda bottles and cereal boxes from
>>>past decades (1950s thru '80s for example).
>>>
>>>Although many don't want to try eating or drinking them, and the
>>>sellers recommend not to, is the food still good.
>>>
>>>Could a cereal box packed away for 20 years still be good? Thanks.
>>
>>It's not what you mentioned above, but your post reminded me of a
>>segment on the History Channel where somebody opened up a WW2 K-ration
>>on TV. The cigarettes and some other things still looked OK. The meat,
>>OTOH, came out as a pile of dirt.
>
>
> Back in the late 1950s or early 1960s on the tv show "I've Got a Secret",
> the secret was that the panel had been served pieces of mincemeat pie made
> from mincemeat that was over 100 years old. Apparently, the mincemeat had
> been discovered in the cellar of an 18th century building in NYC. It was
> used to bake a pie to serve for this purpose. The panelists deemed it
> quite edible.
>