In this month's Oddities in the News Page:
43-year-old Twinkies and other processed food horrors
IN THE ODDITIES ARCHIVES
What’s really in Loch Ness
Shark Tooth DNA
Military Admits to UFOs
Wild Animal Pets
Flinstone House
Fluffy the Cat
Nov. 8. 2019 (UPI) -- A Maine school is celebrating the 43rd anniversary of a Twinkie that has been on display at the school since being unwrapped by a science teacher.
George Stevens Academy in Blue Hill said the Twinkie originally unwrapped by teacher Roger Bennatti in 1976 as part of a lesson on food preservatives is marking its 43rd year at the school.
The school said the Twinkie is still the same size and shape as a fresh snack cake, but its color has faded to gray and its texture has turned rough.
The Twinkie was on display in Bennatti's classroom until he retired in 2004 and passed it along to Libby Rosemeier, the school's dean of students and one of the students who was in his class for the original Twinkie lesson.
A Hostess spokesperson said the shelf-life for a Twinkie is 25 days.
See the article HERE
THE WORLD'S OLDEST HAMBURGER
ST. GEORGE — The lifespan of a hamburger is usually measured in minutes: You get the burger, you scarf the burger, the burger is gone forever. A man from St. George, however, claims that he has a 20-year-old McDonald's burger that still looks like new.
David Whipple said he purchased the burger July 7, 1999 in Logan in order to use it for a demonstration about enzymatic action. He was battling with his weight and wanted to show it to a group of fellow weight loss advocates. So he let it age for a month before bringing out.
"At the little meeting, I showed the hamburger and the pickle, which was just starting to disintegrate," Whipple writes. "There was no decomposition to the meat or bun, nor any mold, fungus or smell. It had no bad odor at all."
The burger, which he says was stuffed into a jacket pocket and tossed into his truck after the meeting, was forgotten about, surviving the summer heat. It was discovered a year or two later in a closet, still in the coat pocket with the original bag and receipt.
"It was purely a fluke about hanging on to it in the first place," Whipple said in an interview with ksl.com. "But now I've had it for 20 years."
The burger had only a pickle, mustard and ketchup on it, no lettuce or cheese. Only the pickle appeared to decompose much over the years.
See the youtube video about this hambuger HERE
Why doesn't some processed food rot? What is in these Franken-foods?
Hostess Twinkies: Butter, milk and eggs spoil, so Twinkies needed a way to defy the laws of baked-good longevity. That job is filled by ingredients like monoglycerides and diglycerides, emulsifiers that binds with oil, and sodium stearoyl lactylate, which binds with water. No butter, milk or eggs.
The ingredients in McDonald’s chicken nuggets
- White boneless chicken
- Water
- Food starch-modified
- Salt
- Autolyzed yeast (Seasoning 5-13)
- Salt
- Wheat starch
- Natural flavour (botanical source)
- Safflower oil
- Dextrose
- Citric acid
- Sodium phosphates
- Natural flavour (botanical source)
- Battered and breaded with water
- leached wheat flour (Enriched flour 15-24)
- Niacin
- Reduced iron
- Thiamine mononitrate
- Riboflavin
- Folic acid
- Yellow corn flour
- Bleached wheat flour
- Food starch-modified
- Salt
- Baking soda (Leavening 25-33)
- Sodium acid pyrophosphate
- Sodium aluminium phosphate
- Monocalcium phosphate
- Calcium lactate
- Spices
- Wheat starch
- Dextrose
- Corn starch
- Canola oil (Prepared in Vegetable Oil 34-40)
- Corn oil
- Soybean oil
- Hydrogenated soybean oil
- TBHQ
- Citric Acid to preserve freshness of the oil
- and Dimethylpolysiloxane to reduce oil splatter when cooking
Source HERE
Top 10 Most Unhealthy Fast Food Chains In America
A recent report from 24/7 Wall St. identified the 10 least healthy fast-food restaurant chains in the U.S. Fast-food chains were evaluated using data from Nutritionix, a nutrition information database.
To determine which chains are the least healthy overall, 24/7 Wall St. compared menu items from the different chains against one another on the basis of saturated fat, trans fat, sodium, carbohydrate, sugar and calorie levels.
1. Sonic
Nearly 50 percent of Sonic Corp (NASDAQ: SONC)’s menu items contain at least 1 gram of saturated fat, and 10 of Sonic’s hamburgers have more than 1,100 calories, making Sonic the least healthy fast-food chain on 24/7 Wall St.’s list.
2. Carl’s Jr.
Six of the breakfast sandwiches on Carl’s Jr.’s menu contain 6 grams of trans fat—a type of fat that is deemed unhealthy in any amount.
3. Whataburger
Ninety percent of Whataburger’s side items contain more than the daily recommended value of at least one of the six nutrition categories examined by 24/7 Wall St., and over 50 percent of Whataburger’s meal items ranked in the top third among all fast-food chains for saturated fat.
4. Quizno’s
21 of Quizno’s sandwiches contains over 1,000 calories.
5. Arby’s
The Wendy's Co makes its second appearance in the top 10 for its nearly 20 percent ownership stake in Arby's. All but one of Arby’s sandwiches ranked poorly in at least two of the six nutrition level categories, and one third of meal items on Arby’s menu—roast beef sandwiches included—contain trans fat.
6. Jack in the Box
Eight of the burgers on Jack in the Box Inc (NASDAQ: JACK)’s menu contain an entire day’s worth of saturated fat, and the Chicken Teriyaki Bowl on its lighter fare menu has more carbohydrates and sugar than 98 percent of the meal items at other fast-food chains.
7. Wendy’s
The Wendy's Co (NASDAQ: WEN)'s high-calorie Baconator hamburger contains almost half of the average adult’s daily value of calories and 115 percent of the recommended daily value of saturated fat.
8. Chick-fil-A
While Chick-fil-A’s Grilled Chicken Sandwich is the healthiest meal selection across nearly every category of comparison, almost 45 percent of its side items have exceptionally high sugar content compared to the side items of other fast-food chains.
9. Checkers
Over 75 percent of Checkers’ menu item meals have higher saturated fat levels than comparable meals at other fast-food chains.
10. Burger King
Unhealthy breakfast and side items earn Restaurant Brands International Inc (NYSE: QSR)'s Burger King (and its 1,420-calorie Ultimate Breakfast Platter) the 10th spot on 24/7 Wall St.’s unhealthy restaurants list.
Source HERE