近日，「麥當勞漢堡薯條十年不發黴」上了熱搜，讓很多喜歡吃麥當勞的小夥伴驚出了一身汗，這到底是怎麼回事？
事情還要從十年前說起：2009年，受金融風暴影響，冰島貨幣嚴重貶值，麥當勞不堪虧損，決定於當年10月31日全面退出冰島市場。冰島人Hjortur Smarason當天買下最後一份漢堡薯條留念，他說「麥當勞決定歇業後，我打算買回具有歷史意義的最後一份套餐。我聽說麥當勞漢堡永遠不會腐壞，我想看看是不是真的。」如今這份經典套餐仍被保存在展示櫃中，似乎仍沒有腐爛的跡象。
When McDonald's closed all its restaurants in Iceland in 2009, one man decided to buy his last hamburger and fries.
2009年，當冰島的麥當勞全線關閉時，有人決定買下最後一份漢堡和薯條。
"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在接受法新社採訪時表示：「我聽說麥當勞的食品從來不會腐爛，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，距離當初的購買時間已有10年之久，但這些食物看起來並未腐爛，就像是昨天剛買的一樣。
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.
現在，這份套餐保存在冰島南部的斯諾特拉之家旅社的玻璃櫃中，好奇的觀眾可以觀看實時直播。
"The old guy is still there, feeling quite well. It still looks quite good actually," the hostel's owner Siggi Sigurdur told BBC News.
該旅社的老闆Siggi Sigurdur在接受BBC採訪時表示：「這些老古董還待在那裡，自我感覺良好。看起來保存得很好。」
"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."
「這件事還挺有意思的，但你不禁會想自己吃的到底是什麼。食物沒有發黴，只有包裝紙看起來有些舊。」
The hostel claims that people come from around the world to visit the burger, and the website receives up to 400,000 hits daily.
旅社稱世界各地的人都來觀看這個漢堡，網站每天的訪問量達到40萬次。
In their short existence, the burger and fries have moved around a lot.
這份套餐在其短暫的生涯中曾幾經輾轉。
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.
一開始，Smarason為了觀察這些食物多久會腐爛，將它們放在車庫的一個塑膠袋中。
When after three years, he detected little change in its composition, he donated the meal to the National Museum of Iceland.
三年後，他發現食物並沒有太大變化，便將其捐贈到了冰島國家博物館。
A museum specialist eventually decided they were not equipped to preserve food and it was returned to its original owner, according to Snotra House.
據斯諾特拉之家介紹，由於博物館沒有設備保存食物，一位博物館專家最終決定將漢堡薯條還給了原來的主人。
"I think he was wrong because this hamburger preserves itself," Mr Smarason commented.
Smarason 表示：「我覺得專家錯了，因為這個漢堡可以自我保存。」
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時間後，漢堡和薯條就搬到了現在的家。
Mr Smarason is far from the first person to try this experiment with McDonald's food.
Smarason並不是第一個用麥當勞食品做相關實驗的人。
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買了一個漢堡，14年後，她說漢堡看起來和購買那天沒什麼兩樣。這件事曾經轟動一時。
In 2010, New York photographer Sally Davies bought a Happy Meal and took a picture of it daily for six months.
2010年，紐約攝影師Sally Davies買了一份開心樂園餐，並連續六個月每天為其拍照。
She claimed it didn't rot, smell bad, develop maggots, or indeed show any sign of going off.
她說這份套餐沒有腐爛、沒有異味、沒有生蛆，也沒有任何變質的跡象。
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，麥當勞曾表示「在合適的環境下，我們的漢堡像大多數其他食物一樣，是會腐爛的」，但若在缺水的環境中，它們「可能不會發黴或者被細菌分解」。
Senior lecturer in food science at the University of Iceland, Bjorn Adalbjornsson, confirmed this explanation, saying that without moisture, "food will simply dry out".
冰島大學食品科學院資深講師Bjorn Adalbjornsson證實了這一解釋，他表示沒有水分，「食物就會變幹」。
牛魔王別打了出來看上帝：可能一些人不愛聽，但肯德基和麥當勞應該比大多數餐館要乾淨安全。
土味大叔：臥槽，得多少防腐劑啊?
這裡並沒有暱稱233：在不了解他具體的保藏措施的情況下說防腐劑是不是不太合適。
今天下雨了嗎1111：說防腐劑的真實迷惑，薯條炸出來就吃，放防腐劑給自己增加成本商家腦子有坑?
桑代克沒養貓：冰島，夏季均溫也就6-12℃，冬季跟凍庫似的，根本不適合黴菌生長啊。
檸蜜KOO：我在東北四年沒見過哪裡發黴，在廣東水果放到第二第三天就發黴了。冰島的情況不能套用我們這邊的呀。
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