mark thompson holds the record for eating the most big macs.
mark thompson holds the record for eating the most big macs.
who holds the record for eating the most big macs?
mark thompson
don gorske









































donald a. gorske (born november 28, 1953) is an american world record holder and known as the "big mac enthusiast". he is best known for having eaten 30,000 big mac hamburgers from the u.s. fast food chain mcdonald's in his lifetime and winning a place in the guinness book of records. he claims the big mac constitutes 90-95% of his total solid food intake. he is featured in the documentaries "super size me" (2004) and "don gorske: mac daddy" (2005). he is the author of "22,477 big macs" (2008), and resides in fond du lac, wisconsin.









































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don gorske
gorske claims that after getting his first car, the first place he went to was a mcdonald's on may 17, 1972. he purchased and ate three big macs at lunch time. he then returned two more times that day to consume a total of nine big macs the same day he discovered the burger. he further claims to have eaten 265 big macs in the following month, an average of 8.5 big macs per day. if true, this would be equivalent to over 4,600 calories and 247 grams of low quality fat daily, for a total of 143,100 calories and 16.9 pounds of fat in one month. he also claims to drink almost nothing but coca-cola and, according to "super size me", he rarely eats the fries. at first, don kept all the boxes of big macs he ate in the back of his car. he met and proposed to his wife, mary, at a mcdonald's in 1975. in addition, he has a statue of ronald mcdonald in his yard. gorske also states that he has only eaten one burger king whopper sandwich in his life in 1984 and will never eat one again. gorske claimed that he first tried a whopper after his friend bet him $5 to do so and that he then spent the money on big macs.
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