It has been 39 years to the day since Don Gorske ate his first nine. At a ceremony in his honour at a McDonald’s in his hometown of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, he said he would continue to eat Big Macs “until I die”. Mr Gorske, 57, appeared in the 2004 documentary film Super Size Me, which looks at the impact of a daily diet of McDonald’s food. He is thin and his cholesterol is said to be low.
“When I was 19 years old I had eaten my first 1,000 Big Macs and I was kind of like, I thought how long before I hit 10,000?” he said before eating the world record 25,000th burger on Tuesday.
“Then it was like boy, by the time I hit 25,000 I will be old and retired. Well wouldn’t you know, I’m not super old, I am 50-something, but I am retired and stuff, but you don’t dream of living so long as to reach a milestone like that.”
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