David & Bev Whipple - Owners
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| Dave & Bev Whipple 2012 |
People ask why I ended up with an old hamburger…
why I would even keep it!
I purchased this McDonald’s hamburger for .79 cents back on July 7, 1999. The hamburger, with the receipt, in its original wrapper, and sack, ended up in a coat pocket, which then ended up in a closet and there it stayed for a couple of years.
One day Bev was cleaning out old cloths to donate and found this McDonald's hamburger, still in the bag. Busy raising seven kids; she put the burger back on a shelf to ask me about it later, which didn’t happen.
Five years latter one of my kiddos ran across the burger again. It was still in the condition you see it today. No mold, fungus or growth of any kind had grown on it even though it sat there non refrigerated for all this time.
One of my children put the burger on eBay and bids started going crazy. The price got all the way up to and was purchased above $2,000. A bidder from the Northeast won the auction, however, Ebay nullified the sell because of shill bidding. Early on in the auction I had a daughter bid on the item to get it going and Ebay decided because of this to cancel the auction. So, I decided to just hang onto it instead of selling.
A few years ago our daughter Julie, living in Washington DC, was talking on a call-in radio station about weird things people hang onto. The radio station called me and offered several thousand dollars for the old McDonald's hamburger. The disc-jockey wanted to microwave and eat the burger for a promotional event. There was some health risk legality, and that never came about, but it’s been fun to talk about.
A few years ago our daughter Julie, living in Washington DC, was talking on a call-in radio station about weird things people hang onto. The radio station called me and offered several thousand dollars for the old McDonald's hamburger. The disc-jockey wanted to microwave and eat the burger for a promotional event. There was some health risk legality, and that never came about, but it’s been fun to talk about.
This hamburger has been shown at a couple of schools and at one convention related to healthy eating. I think the older it gets, the more famous it will become. A few months ago when Hostess announced Twinkies where doomed, I picked up a few packages. Who knows, possibly they will all become family heirlooms.
-By Dave Whipple
St. George, Utah
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