People grossed out after video shows how long McDonald's paper cups can hold liquid for

People are obsessed with McDonalds and time lapse videos and this one is certainly a fascinatingly disgusting watch.

If you dive into the depths of YouTube, you can find all manner of time lapse videos.

And you shouldn’t have to dive too far till you find a few amateur experiments looking at how long it takes for McDonald’s food to develop mold.

However, one YouTube channel in 2020 made a timelapse to see how long a McDonald’s cup can hold a liquid for. I mean it was lockdown for many people that year, so there really wasn’t that much to do.

But while the result may surprise you, it just might equally disgust you.

Explaining the experiment, the video caption read: “Have you ever wondered how long could McDonald's paper cup hold your drink? Me too."(PhotoOwl via YouTube)

The YouTube channel, Photo Owl Time Lapse, insisted that the point of the video wasn’t to disparage the company, the channel in fact praised them for their environmental efforts over the years.

Explaining the experiment, the video caption read: “Have you ever wondered how long could McDonald's paper cup hold your drink? Me too.

“Watch this McDonald's paper cup time-lapse video to find out.

“For this project, I captured more than 124 000 photos. I had to use a very frequent interval otherwise I would have missed the interesting moment when the cup finally broke down.

“They were orange juice, Pepsi, and water. I removed the water so early because nothing interesting happened to it, it just evaporated slowly, and by removing that cup I had more space on the screen for the 2 remaining ones.

“And I removed the Pepsi as well for the very same reason, so I could get closer to the orange juice cup which started to look the worst. I topped it up with water from time to time because it would have evaporated many times over, and the main goal was to 'break' the cup.”

Five days go by and the water and pepsi appear fine but the orange juice quickly starts to sprout some mold.

By day 7 the orange juice cup is black with black mold while the pepsi starts to develop small mold specs.

After about 50 days, the orange juice cup begins to disintegrate and leak.

Five days go by and the water and pepsi appear fine but the orange juice quickly starts to sprout some mold. (PhotoOwl via YouTube)

By day 90, the experiment is now only focussing on the orange juice cup and the mold continues to fester and grow.

By day 200, the cup is starting to tip over, losing its shape and by day 231 it has completely tipped over and is considerably flimsy.

People on social media admitted the whole experiment was rather gross but weren’t surprised that orange fruit drink garnered so much mold and this eventually weakend the paper cup.

“Props to this guy, rotting juice must’ve smelt horrible!,” one user wrote.

“Took a sip of my orange juice just as the one in the video started molding, that’s always fun,” another added.

“Even though it's super gross, watching the juice turn into mold through time lapse was oddly beautiful,” commented a third.

“Yeah, watching this while eating isn't the best idea I've ever come with,” a horrified user added.

“Started out interesting but took a dark turn very quickly when the mould took over. Props for allowing that biohazard to exist for close to a year in your studio/garage/mad scientists lab/whatever,” a fifth person commented.

Topics: Food and Drink, McDonalds, Social Media, Weird, Environment