最“老”的漢堡：14年前的漢堡跟剛買時一模一樣！

If you need another reason to kick the junk food habit this should do it.
如果你想要找一個理由讓你戒掉垃圾食品，這條新聞可能會幫上忙。

A Utah man has unearthed a McDonald's hamburger he bought in 1999 - and the sandwich looks exactly the same as the day it was first flipped.
一位來自美國猶他州的男子發現：他於1999年在麥當勞買的漢堡，現在看起來跟剛買時幾乎毫無差別。

David Whipple kept the fast food meal for a month to show friends how the preservative-packed hamburger would keep its composure.
大衛-惠普爾原本打算將這塊漢堡保存一個月，來向他的朋友證明防腐劑是如何保存漢堡使其不變質的。

But he forgot about it, finding it two years later in his coat pocket and then he decided to continue the bizarre experiment.
但不久後他忘了這件事，直到兩年後纔在大衣口袋裏找到這個漢堡，於是他決定繼續這個古怪的實驗。

However, even he was shocked to see that the hamburger still looks the same a whopping 14 years later.
然而，14年後漢堡仍看起來和剛買時一樣，這樣的結果使他十分震驚。

'It wasn't on purpose,' Whipple told TV show 'The Doctors,' of his decision to keep the burger for such a long time.
“我不是有意做出這樣的決定，將漢堡保存這麼長時間的”，惠普爾在電視節目“醫生” 中談到。

‘I was showing some people how enzymes work and I thought a hamburger would be a good idea. And I used it for a month and then I forgot about it.’
“我當時只是想向朋友展示酶類是如何產生作用的，我覺得用漢堡可能效果不錯。而且我本來只打算保存一個月，但後來壓根忘了這件事。”

'It ended up in a paper sack in the original sack with the receipt in my coat pocket tossed in the back of my truck and it sat there for, I don't know, two or three months.'
“後來我在放在卡車後備箱的大衣口袋裏發現了這個漢堡，它原封不動地被裝在紙袋中，發票也還留着，在後備箱裏放了大概有2到3個月。”

'It ended up in a paper sack in the original sack with the receipt in my coat pocket tossed in the back of my truck and it sat there for, I don't know, two or three months.'
“後來我在放在卡車後備箱的大衣口袋裏發現了這個漢堡，它原封不動地被裝在紙袋中，發票也還留着，在後備箱裏放了大概 有2到3個月。”

He said his coat ended up in the coat closet of his Logan, Utah, home.
他說之後這件大衣被掛在他位於猶他州洛根市家中的衣櫥裏。

'My wife didn't discover it until at least a year or two after that,' he said. 'And we pulled it out and said "oh my gosh. I can't believe it looks the same way."'
“我的妻子直到一兩年後才發現這個漢堡，” 惠普爾說，“當把漢堡拿出來時我們驚呼 ‘天吶，簡直不可思議，它看起來與剛買時一樣！’”

The burger had no signs of mold, fungus or even a strange odor, the show's hosts said. The only thing that had changed over the years was that the pickle had disintegrated.
漢堡上並沒有任何的菌斑甚至是奇怪的氣味，唯一的變化是夾在中間的酸黃瓜分解了。

Whipple, who still has the original receipt for the burger, said he now shows the sandwich to his grandchildren to encourage them to eat healthily.
惠普爾仍持有當時買這個漢堡的發票，他說現在他可以證明給他的孫子孫女看快餐的問題，並鼓勵他們吃得健康一點了。