Iceland's last McDonald's cheeseburger perfectly preserved 13 years after chain closed
dailystar.co.ukMcDonald's restaurants and takeaways.But not everyone is so lucky. Iceland’s last Maccy D’s closed in 2009 amid the global financial crisis and there’s just one of the chain’s popular cheeseburgers left in the country — and it’s in a museum.The perfectly-preserved snack was originally saved by accident, but went on to be exhibited in the National Museum of Iceland before finding a permanent home at Snotra House in the south of the country.Hjörtur Smárason bought the “historic” cheeseburger on October 30 2009, one day before the last McDonalds in Iceland closed its doors.He put it aside, but then forgot about it until he was moving house in 2012.
In his garage, next to some boxes containing tools, some old roller blades and other odds and ends lay the burger – apparently as good as the day it left the restaurant.“It looked like I bought it just 15 minutes earlier,” he says. “And the same with the fries, it all looked almost new.
Just turned cold on the way home.”While most people might have just chucked it out, Hjörtur decided to preserve the last cheeseburger in Iceland for posterity.“This was now like a historical artifact that belonged to Iceland,” he said. “The last McDonald’s burger in Iceland.
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