12-YEAR-OLD BIG MAC ON DISPLAY IN ICELAND

Here’s a true fact: There is a 12-year-old Big Mac on display in Iceland. The backstory: A man named Hjörtur Smárason bought the Big Mac in 2009 on the day before McDonald’s closed its Iceland restaurants for good due to the 2008 financial crisis. The Big Mac and fries went into a McDonald’s bag, but Smárason put it somewhere and forgot about it. He rediscovered it while moving houses in 2012. Expecting to find something horrible, he opened the McDonald’s bag and discovered that “it looked like I bought it just 15 minutes earlier. And the same with the fries, it all looked almost new.” Since McDonald’s was now gone from his country, Smárason understood that he possessed “a historical artifact that belonged to Iceland.” He gave it to the National Museum Of Iceland where it continued to age for a year before being passed off to the Bus Hotel Reykjavik and then to the Snotra House hostel, where the Big Mac and fries live to this day.
* They named a hostel in Iceland after Frank Snotra?
* It must have been like keeping it in a freezer. The place is called Iceland, you know.
* Twelve years and not a single mouse has wanted to take a bite out of this thing? Doesn’t exactly make me want to run out to McDonald’s.
* This inspires me to dig through the trash in the back seat of my car. I’m sure I’ve got a half-eaten taco from the 90’s somewhere back there.
* Boy, interesting news stories out of Iceland don’t come along every day. Today included.