Man kept McDonald’s burger he bought in 1995 to see what would happen to it

Back in 1995 a man decided to buy a quarter pounder burger from McDonald's, but not as his next meal.

Australian blokes Casey Dean and Eduards Nits claimed to have bought the burger when they were teenagers from a McDonald's in Adelaide.

Rather than scoff the fast food, they instead made the momentous decision to just keep it and see what would happen to the thing.

Despite sitting out for so long the burger, which the boys dubbed their 'mate', has managed to stay in relatively the same condition as when it was first bought.

According to AFP, the burger has shrunk a little bit from the size it was when it was first bought, but there's no mould growing on it and it doesn't even smell.

Casey Dean and his ancient McDonald's. (WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images)

"Being teenagers we ordered a truckload of food, and it was just way too much," Dean told the outlet of his historical foodstuff.

"It started a chain of events where we were joking 'imagine if we kept this forever', and here we are."

It won't be long before they've been hanging onto the burger for a whopping 30 years, though you probably wouldn't want to push your luck by eating it.

Dean explained that he kept the quarter pounder in his shed, so it'd be baking in there during the summer, and that rats had been inside to eat the McDonald's packaging but they'd not touched the actual burger itself.

I know what you're thinking, but it's probably not safe to eat. (WILLIAM WEST/AFP via Getty Images)

McDonald's actually did say there was a reason for the burger's long life, with a spokesperson saying at the time that if a cooked burger is left at room temperature for a time there's just not enough moisture to support bacterial growth.

Instead the fast food is just very dried out and there aren't the conditions for bacteria to grow on it.

McDonald's makes all sorts of burgers in their multitudes each and every year, so whomever cooked this one up will have had no idea they were making a meal for the history books.

While you can apparently get a burger that never decays from Maccies, you can also order a burger that never existed too as one guy ordered a cheeseburger, asked them to take out everything and was delivered an empty box.

You've got to wonder if the bloke who eats a big mac a day would be interested in trying to tackle this thing.