译趣 | 麦当劳汉堡薯条10年不发霉你觉得为啥？ | 自由微信

译趣 | 麦当劳汉堡薯条10年不发霉你觉得为啥？

Original Yee君译·世界 2021-03-17

近日，“麦当劳汉堡薯条十年不发霉”上了热搜，让很多喜欢吃麦当劳的小伙伴惊出了一身汗，这到底是怎么回事？

事情还要从十年前说起：2009年，受金融风暴影响，冰岛货币严重贬值，麦当劳不堪亏损，决定于当年10月31日全面退出冰岛市场。冰岛人Hjortur Smarason当天买下最后一份汉堡薯条留念，他说“麦当劳决定歇业后，我打算买回具有历史意义的最后一份套餐。我听说麦当劳汉堡永远不会腐坏，我想看看是不是真的。”如今这份经典套餐仍被保存在展示柜中，似乎仍没有腐烂的迹象。

When McDonald's closed all its restaurants in Iceland in 2009, one man decided to buy his last hamburger and fries.

2009年，当冰岛的麦当劳全线关闭时，有人决定买下最后一份汉堡和薯条。

"I had heard that McDonald's never decompose so I just wanted to see if it was true or not," Hjortur Smarason told AFP.

Hjortur Smarason在接受法新社采访时表示：“我听说麦当劳的食品从来不会腐烂，所以想看看是不是真的。”

Now, it's 10 years since the seemingly indestructible meal was purchased, and it barely looks a day older.

如今，距离当初的购买时间已有10年之久，但这些食物看起来并未腐烂，就像是昨天刚买的一样。

Curious observers can watch a live stream of the burger and fries from its current location in a glass cabinet in Snotra House, a hostel in southern Iceland.

现在，这份套餐保存在冰岛南部的斯诺特拉之家旅社的玻璃柜中，好奇的观众可以观看实时直播。

"The old guy is still there, feeling quite well. It still looks quite good actually," the hostel's owner Siggi Sigurdur told BBC News.

该旅社的老板Siggi Sigurdur在接受BBC采访时表示：“这些老古董还待在那里，自我感觉良好。看起来保存得很好。”

"It's a fun thing, of course, but it makes you think about what you are eating. There is no mould, it's only the paper wrapping that looks old."

“这件事还挺有意思的，但你不禁会想自己吃的到底是什么。食物没有发霉，只有包装纸看起来有些旧。”

The hostel claims that people come from around the world to visit the burger, and the website receives up to 400,000 hits daily.

旅社称世界各地的人都来观看这个汉堡，网站每天的访问量达到40万次。

In their short existence, the burger and fries have moved around a lot.

这份套餐在其短暂的生涯中曾几经辗转。

In the first stage of Mr Smarason's investigation into how quickly the food would decay, it was kept in a plastic bag in his garage.

一开始，Smarason为了观察这些食物多久会腐烂，将它们放在车库的一个塑料袋中。

When after three years, he detected little change in its composition, he donated the meal to the National Museum of Iceland.

三年后，他发现食物并没有太大变化，便将其捐赠到了冰岛国家博物馆。

A museum specialist eventually decided they were not equipped to preserve food and it was returned to its original owner, according to Snotra House.

据斯诺特拉之家介绍，由于博物馆没有设备保存食物，一位博物馆专家最终决定将汉堡薯条还给了原来的主人。

"I think he was wrong because this hamburger preserves itself," Mr Smarason commented.

Smarason 表示：“我觉得专家错了，因为这个汉堡可以自我保存。”

After a spell in a different hostel in Reykjavík, the meal moved to its current home.

在雷克雅未克的另一家旅社住了一段时间后，汉堡和薯条就搬到了现在的家。

Mr Smarason is far from the first person to try this experiment with McDonald's food.

Smarason并不是第一个用麦当劳食品做相关实验的人。

Famously, Karen Hanrahan bought a hamburger in 1996 and 14 years later was claiming it looked no different than on the day she'd bought it.

1996年，Karen Hanrahan买了一个汉堡，14年后，她说汉堡看起来和购买那天没什么两样。这件事曾经轰动一时。

In 2010, New York photographer Sally Davies bought a Happy Meal and took a picture of it daily for six months.

2010年，纽约摄影师Sally Davies买了一份开心乐园餐，并连续六个月每天为其拍照。

She claimed it didn't rot, smell bad, develop maggots, or indeed show any sign of going off.

她说这份套餐没有腐烂、没有异味、没有生蛆，也没有任何变质的迹象。

McDonald's commented in 2013 that "in the right environment, our burgers, like most other foods, could decompose", but that without moisture in the environment, they were "unlikely to grow mould or bacteria or decompose".

2013年，麦当劳曾表示“在合适的环境下，我们的汉堡像大多数其他食物一样，是会腐烂的”，但若在缺水的环境中，它们“可能不会发霉或者被细菌分解”。

Senior lecturer in food science at the University of Iceland, Bjorn Adalbjornsson, confirmed this explanation, saying that without moisture, "food will simply dry out".

冰岛大学食品科学院资深讲师Bjorn Adalbjornsson证实了这一解释，他表示没有水分，“食物就会变干”。

网友热议

牛魔王别打了出来看上帝：可能一些人不爱听，但肯德基和麦当劳应该比大多数餐馆要干净安全。

土味大叔：卧槽，得多少防腐剂啊?

这里并没有昵称233：在不了解他具体的保藏措施的情况下说防腐剂是不是不太合适。

今天下雨了吗1111：说防腐剂的真实迷惑，薯条炸出来就吃，放防腐剂给自己增加成本商家脑子有坑?

桑代克没养猫：冰岛，夏季均温也就6-12℃，冬季跟冻库似的，根本不适合霉菌生长啊。

柠蜜KOO：我在东北四年没见过哪里发霉，在广东水果放到第二第三天就发霉了。冰岛的情况不能套用我们这边的呀。