The Mac Daddy

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Meet Donald Gorske, a normal Wisconsin man who likes eating Big Macs.

Where most men are distracted by sport or women, Gorske’s mind is always on Big Macs.  His patty endeavours have seen him featured in the 2006 Guinness Book of World Records, featured heavily in the prince of all burger documentaries, Super Size Me (2004) and encouraged him to write 22,477 Big Macs, an exhaustive documentary of his meaty legacy. He can’t curl free-kicks, sing ballads and has an appalling taste in "crazy" ties; but we reckon Donald A Gorske is a modern-day hero.  

His “journey” began on 17 May, 1972 when, after buying his first automobile, he drove to McDonald’s and purchased and ate three Big Macs at lunchtime. He then returned for his dinner. And again later that evening, consuming 9 Big Macs on his inaugural “Big Mac Eating Day”. He then polished off 265 Big Macs over the next 30 days, an average of 8.5 per day, keeping all of the empty boxes for posterity in the back seat of his motor.

Since that fateful day when he munched his first Mac, Gorske says there have only been eight different days when he did not eat a single Mac. On one occasion his mother died and requested specifically on her deathbed that he refrain. Otherwise a “Snow Day” meant McDonald’s couldn’t open, various days travelling meant he was not able to find one and other days he simply had to stay at work past midnight. But boy did he want one.

So appalled at these discrepancies, Gorske now keeps an “emergency stash” of Big Macs in his freezer at home. He also notes down every Big Mac eaten, where it was eaten and documents the receipt for the transaction.

He met and proposed to his wife Mary in a McDonald’s in 1973. They are both happy and healthy, not visiting a doctor in years.

Mr Gorske. we salute you.

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BITESIZE BURGEROLOGY
90 – percentage of Don Gorske’s solid food intake that is Big Macs
9 – the amount of Big Macs he had on the first day he tried them
8.5 – average amount of Big Macs consumed during first month of Big Mac activity
7513 – grammes of fat consumed in first month via newfound Big Mac addiction
84 – Don Gorske’s weight in kg
140 – Don’s claimed cholesterol level
8 – the amount of days he HASN’T had a Big Mac since he first tried one, 38 years ago.
36.09 – amount in pounds his book, 22,477 Big Macs, is on Amazon
18 – the amount of UK Big Macs you could buy instead of buying his book
490 – amount of calories in your average Big Mac
100 – percentage of “pure beef” in Big Macs according to www.mcdonalds.co.uk (“No additives, fillers, binders, preservatives or flavour enhancers. Just pure forequarter and flank. A little salt and pepper is added to season after cooking.”)
1.15 – the price of the most affordable Big Mac in the world, located in Ukraine.
4.49 – the price in US dollars of the most expensive Big Mac in the world, located in Norway.
1 – amount of Burger King Whoppers Don has eaten in his life.
0 – amount of Burger King Whoppers Don intends to consume in the future