Thirty-nine years after his first mouthful, a retired prison guard has secured his place in the pantheon of food eating feats by finishing his 25,000th Big Mac.
Don Gorske, who nibbles his way through each burger in 16 bites, was honoured for passing the milestone at a McDonald's in his hometown of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
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Some facts LOL
Gorske has consumed 13,500,000 million in US Big Mac calories, compared to 12,250,000 if he'd eaten them all in a UK McDonalds, where the Big Mac comes in at 50 calories lighter.
He has consumed 725,000 grams of fat, or the weight in grease of a large polar bear
At 1135 kilos of beef, Gorske has eaten the equivalent of two and a quarter cows, nose to tail.
He's gulped down 400,000 Big Mac mouthfuls (by his own estimate of 16 bites per burger)
It would have taken Sonya Thomas, the International Federation of Competitive Eating's record holder (Hamburger category), just three weeks to eat as many burgers.
When he chomped into his first Big Mac in 1972, Americans spent around $3bn a year on fast food. Today that figure is more than $110bn.
He would have to walk more than 90,000 miles to burn off all his Big Macs, the equivalent of more than 10 return trips from his Wisconsin home to the world's most remote McDonalds in Invercargill, New Zealand
His thirty-nine year burger marathon has yielded him just 100 grams of iron ? the same as found in 1000 olives.
He's chewed through 6,250 grams of calcium, equivalent to that found in 521 teeth.
His Big Mac intake averages out at 1.76 a day, every day for 14,235 days.
Don Gorske, who nibbles his way through each burger in 16 bites, was honoured for passing the milestone at a McDonald's in his hometown of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
:0corn
Some facts LOL
Gorske has consumed 13,500,000 million in US Big Mac calories, compared to 12,250,000 if he'd eaten them all in a UK McDonalds, where the Big Mac comes in at 50 calories lighter.
He has consumed 725,000 grams of fat, or the weight in grease of a large polar bear
At 1135 kilos of beef, Gorske has eaten the equivalent of two and a quarter cows, nose to tail.
He's gulped down 400,000 Big Mac mouthfuls (by his own estimate of 16 bites per burger)
It would have taken Sonya Thomas, the International Federation of Competitive Eating's record holder (Hamburger category), just three weeks to eat as many burgers.
When he chomped into his first Big Mac in 1972, Americans spent around $3bn a year on fast food. Today that figure is more than $110bn.
He would have to walk more than 90,000 miles to burn off all his Big Macs, the equivalent of more than 10 return trips from his Wisconsin home to the world's most remote McDonalds in Invercargill, New Zealand
His thirty-nine year burger marathon has yielded him just 100 grams of iron ? the same as found in 1000 olives.
He's chewed through 6,250 grams of calcium, equivalent to that found in 521 teeth.
His Big Mac intake averages out at 1.76 a day, every day for 14,235 days.
