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Iceland’s last McDonald’s burger is on display 15 years later, and its not even rotten�
McDonald’s closed all of its stores in Iceland more than a decade ago and the last burger ever sold is now on display.
The fast-food chain still has no locations in the Nordic country, and it all comes down to money. However, the burger lives on.
Iceland’s last McDonald’s burger is on display
The McDonald’s cheeseburger and fries are encased in a glass box in a guest house in southern Iceland, perfectly preserved.
A guy called Hj�rtur Sm�rason bought the meal on the day before the three McDonald’s stores closed in 2009.
He left it in its paper bag and forgot about it until three years later, when he discovered it while moving house.
“It looked like I bought it just 15 minutes earlier,” he said at the time. “And the same with the fries, it all looked almost new. Just turned cold on the way home.”
The guy proclaimed the meal a “historical artifact” and it was put in the National Museum of Iceland for a year.
However, they were worried it would decompose so gave it back. Sm�rason then gave it to the Bus Hostel Reykjavik, where it was on display for years.
Now, it’s at the Snotra House in �ykkvib�r alongside a message that says: “I am the last McDonald’s cheeseburger sold in Iceland.”
The burger looks a little worse for wear, but it’s not mouldy or rotten despite being bought a staggering 15 years ago.
Why McDonald’s closed all its Iceland stores
McDonald’s closed its three Iceland stores in 2009 due to the “poor economic situation in the country,” CNN reported.
Businessman Magnus Ogmundsson, who owned the country’s only McDonald’s franchise, said it had become too expensive to operate the restaurants.
This came after Iceland’s currency, the Krona, plunged in value, which meant they were buying everything in Euros.
“The Krona is quite weak and we are buying everything in euros, and we have very high tariffs on imported agricultural products,” he told them.
McDonald’s tried to cooperate and find a solution, but in the end they had no choice but to close all three Reykavik stores.
They then reopened as an independent burger chain called Metro, which would operate with fewer imported products.
There are currently no plans for the fast food chain to return to Iceland, but they do have Domino’s, Subway, KFC and Taco Bell.
