BUSINESS INSIDER – A US man has extended his record for most McDonald’s Big Macs eaten in a lifetime to more than 34,000.
Don Gorske, 70, first gained the Guinness World Records title in 1999 and has now extended his record after eating 728 more Big Macs in 2023, according to the record-keeping company.
He used to consume nine Big Macs daily but has now cut it down to two — one for lunch and one for dinner.
In order to maintain his health, he doesn’t eat french fries and walks six miles a day.
“Many people thought I’d be dead by now, but instead, I’ve been a record holder for my 24th year — one of Guinness World Records’ longer-running record holders, so that’s pretty cool to me,” he said.
Gorske said that despite eating the burgers for over 50 years, he still relishes each one.
“People who have watched me eating a Big Mac often comment that I look like I’m eating one for the very first time,” he said.
Gorske, a retired prison officer from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, ate his first Big Mac in 1972 and immediately knew how much he liked them.
“In that moment, I said: ‘I’m going to probably eat these for the rest of my life.’ I threw the cartons in the back seat and started counting them from day one,” he said.
He has kept the receipts and containers of every burger he has eaten.
After he gained media attention for his burger consumption, inmates at the prison he worked at would mock him with “relentless” verbal abuse, he said …
