Senior Burger Since 17 Nov 1995

Est. Adelaide · 1995

Stillhere.

One burger. Two mates.
An ongoing observation.

Meet the specimen
Senior Burger in its printed cardboard ring and crumpled wrapper.
Not goinganywhere.

Time since purchase.

—Years
—Days
—Hours
—Minutes
—Seconds

Still here. Still not lunch.

Selected observations

Public sightings.

The story escaped the box.

Newsmax · Interview Casey & Ed with Rob Astorino Watch New York Post · A very old Quarter Pounder makes the news. Read
More sightings
· ABC NewsTwo mates. One very old burger. 2018 · Russian televisionThe story travels. · UNILADThe thirty-year wait. · SFGATEA very old burger debate. · 1440Senior Burger in the daily briefing. · Fox NewsApproaching thirty. · Deep EnglishOut of sight, not forgotten.

A comparative study · 1995–ongoing

Things Burgs
has outlived.

Cultural institutions came and went. The specimen remained in its box.

Burger: still here.

University of York · 2022

Accidentally academic.

Senior Burger made it into a University of York PhD thesis about how computers check claims in the news.

Read the thesis
Casey and Ed peer over a table at Senior Burger on a blue plate.

Casey + Ed, 2015 · Supplied by Casey Dean / Senior Burger

Casey + Ed

An unusually long lunch.

On 17 November 1995, Casey and his mates were in Adelaide to record their first EP. After a party, they stopped at Macca’s on Anzac Highway. Jono left his uneaten Quarter Pounder with Ed and asked him to keep it until next time.

Ed kept it. Family members helped look after it over the years, and an unfinished lunch became a running joke between mates.

Twenty years later, that joke became a Facebook page: “Can This 20-Year-Old Burger Get More Likes Than Kanye West?” That was what kicked off the public story in 2015. The Project was one of the major early interviews. More television, international headlines and a Reddit AMA followed.

The page’s name has aged with the burger. These days it says 30-year-old. The burger is still here. So are Casey and Ed.