I can has cheeseburger in my gas tank? E-Gads - $1000!!!

[HopeHoops]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_odd_cheeseburger_gas_tank;_ylt=Av4.iu2lSlzILQsiQXQaqtms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTFpNjRuZWdqBHBvcwMzNgRzZWMDYWNjb3JkaW9uX21vc3RfcG9wdWxhcgRzbGsDcG9saWNlY2hlZXNl

ROCK HILL, S.C. – A South Carolina woman found out fast food won't make your car go fast. The Herald of Rock Hill reported Thursday a 30-year-old woman made a complaint to police after she took her car to a Rock Hill mechanic last week because it would suddenly stop running.

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A little more at link.

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. I call crap - there's no way to shove a cheeseburger into the tank

and have it be in any way, dissolving in the gasoline, still recognizable as a cheeseburger and a pickle.

Maybe there was organic matter in there, but I don't know. I'm a little suspicious of the mechanic - he's either exaggerating ("I found some gross stuff - I'll call it a cheeseburger") or making shit up ("It only need a $75 fuel pump, but if I claim the whole system was polluted, I can clear an extra $900").

[HopeHoops]

2. Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Still, it is a funny headline.

[Lance_Boyle]

3. Depends on how long it was in there - gasoline is a good solvent.

But I'm not so sure a McDonalds burger patty is soluble in anything, including stomach acid.

Remember the myth of the 10-year-old burger? http://bestofmotherearth.com/2008/09/24/1996-mcdonalds-hamburger.html

I suppose there is a slim chance she was driving a diesel-fueled vehicle and that the reporter mistakenly referred to its fuel tank as a "gas tank." Diesel is not a solvent but a lubricant, and some diesel cars and trucks have wide filler necks to accommodate the fat nozzles on truck stop pumps - those could fit a decent sized chunk of burger.

[HopeHoops]

4. McDonalds doesn't make ANYTHING that can be digested by anything.

It isn't "food". I'm not really sure how to classify it, but the styrofoam clamshells they used to package stuff in were more likely to decompose in a landfill than the content of the clamshells.

On Edit: I know someone who has been a manager at McDonalds for over 20 years. About 23 years ago she was "treated" to a tour of a McNuggets processing facility. Her description of it was something like, "Beaks, feet, and feathers go one way, and everything else goes another. That's mixed with who knows what and out come McNuggets."