Two Australian friends have one-upped the decade-old McDonald’s cheeseburger that marked its historic milestone while encased in an Icelandic hostel on Oct. 31. Adeladians Casey Dean and Eduard Nitz claim to be the custodians of a 25-year-old Quarter Pounder. “We never really got Macca’s (McDonald’s), so we all ordered a few burgers,” Nitz reportedly said. While Hjortur Smarason’s Icelandic cheeseburger has its own live stream (which according to the BBC, attracts 400,000 viewers each day), the quarter-century-old Quarter Pounder has caused its own cultural ripples. McDonald’s responded to such amateur experiments in 2013, stating: “In the right environment, our burgers, like most other foods, could decompose.

Source: National Post November 11, 2019 17:32 UTC