Canadian artist Sally Davies has turned a McDonald’s Happy Meal into an object of simultaneous artistic admiration and utter disgust. Her artistic venture — The Happy Meal Project — began in April 2010. Davies was arguing with a friend who owns a burger restaurant about her online discovery of a woman who had kept a 12-year-old Happy Meal. The friend told her that the woman’s story couldn’t possibly be true, so Davies decided to take a photo of a Happy Meal every day to show her friend how it decomposed. There was just one problem: it never did…….not even to this day. Needless to say, it has shrunk over the years, but it looks almost identical. To say it’s rock hard is an understatement, but that’s not unusual for food that’s 15 years old. The scary thing about the Happy Meal is that as of day 5,550, it looks pretty much the way it did in the beginning. If you want to check out the burger, it’s on display on Davies’ Happy Meal Project website.
