Bet you’re wondering we we’ve posted a picture of a Happy Meal. This isn’t just any Happy Meal you see folks, it’s a Happy Meal that has just celebrated it’s 1^st Birthday.   A year ago Joann Bruso commenced an experiment which entailed her buying a Happy Meal, taking out the (happy?) hamburger and setting the crew up for permanent residency in her office for a year. This is what happened.

Here’s a little one year update on how the food fared after a full year sitting in Bruso’s office:

 “My Happy Meal is one year old today and it looks pretty good. It NEVER smelled bad. The food did NOT decompose. It did NOT get moldy, at all.

This morning, I took it off my shelf to take a birthday photo. The first year is always a milestone. I gave it one of my world famous nonna hugs as we’ve been office mates for a year now! (Okay, maybe my sanity is in question.) “

This is what the Happy Meal looked like exactly one year prior:

The next time you’re tempted to purchase a Happy Meal for your child (it’s just for the toy, NO really!), think about these photos as it seems that such a meal can stay happier for a lot longer than perhaps it should.  

As Bruso notes, food is SUPPOSED to decompose, go bad and smell foul…eventually.  Food is broken down into it’s essential nutrients in our bodies and turned into fuel. Our children grow strong bodies, when they eat real food.  Even flies ignored this Happy Meal and microbes didn’t decompose it, which tells us a child’s body can’t properly metabolize it either.  This gives tru meaning to the term “junk food.”. This experiment is ongoing – we’ll be watching for updates on the seemingly invinsible Happy Meal.  Check out Joann Bruso’s experiment here.