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A Happy Meal is forever

McDonald’s food not only tastes like plastic, it lasts as long as plastic.

A Denver nutritionist kept a Happy Meal out for a whole year just to see what would happen, and was shocked when the popular fast-food item hardly changed at all.

Instead of decomposing like normal leftovers, the Happy Meal aged like a Greek statue, said Joann Bruso on her Web site BabyBites.com.

“It sat on my shelf for a year as a silent witness to our fast-food industry,” she wrote. “It NEVER smelled 0bad. The food did NOT decompose.”