Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Man Celebrates his 25,000 Big Mac By Eating a Whopper...Nah, Just Kidding



Fox News - How many Big Macs have you eaten in your lifetime? Well, a Wisconsin man knows exactly how many of the iconic burgers he’s scarfed down over the years, and the number will probably blow your mind. A special ceremony was planned Tuesday afternoon at McDonald’s in Fond du Lac for Don Gorske. That’s because, since 1972, Gorske has eaten at least two Big Macs a day, which means the 57-year-old will be eating his 25,000th Big Mac on the 39th anniversary of eating his first. The Fond du Lac man says he ate nine on May 17, 1972 and has only missed nine days since then, for various reasons. He has kept most of the boxes or receipts or has made specific notes in calendars that he’s kept. Gorske says he probably has an obsessive-compulsive disorder but he doesn’t consider it a problem. He jokes that 25,000 is a milestone because people didn’t think he’d live this long. But he says he recently saw a doctor who said he was in good health and his cholesterol is low.

Probably obsessive compulsive? Buddy you kept wrappers and receipts for a sandwich (yea it’s a sandwich, if it comes from Mcd’s, Wendy's, or the king, it’s a sandwich not a burger) that’s costed anywhere from .50 cents-$1.49.  What did you think the IRS was going to audit you on your lunch expendires over the last 30+ years?

And two things on the picture, 1, totally looks like the kinda guy that would have spent the last 30 years eating 25,000 big macs (and apparently as many as 9 in one day, guy's toilet paper bill must be off the charts, must have to buy direct, no middle man department stores for him, straight to the source).  2. the picture was taken in 2008, you could have told me it was from 1972 and I wouldn’t have even blinked.  I question that it’s from 2008 more than if you told me it was a home Polaroid shot.