How does Don Gorske live, who has been eating burgers from McDonald's for almost 50 years

It is difficult to agree that "Big Mac" is not the healthiest food in the world. Two beef patties, sauce, lettuce leaves and cheese with a bun – the list of ingredients, in itself, is not terrible, but one has only to think that all this contains 550 calories and 11 grams of saturated fat, as the appetite disappears. Many, but not Don Gorske, who has been eating burgers daily for 48 years.

The happy man in the picture is the same Don Gorske, who was photographed on February 17, 2017 at a historic moment. A man tastes new products at a McDonald's restaurant in Wisconsin. For the first time, the restaurant chain introduced "Big Macs" of different sizes: Big Mac and Junior Mac.

To evaluate the taste and satiety of fast food, we invited the most authoritative expert on "Big Macs" on the planet. This is not an exaggeration – even in the staff of the company itself there is no person who would be so well versed in the taste and quality of branded burgers. It can't be otherwise, because in 48 years Don has eaten thousands of "Big Macs"! By the way, Gorske approved the new format of the old hamburger and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Don Gorske claims that he remembers well the day when he ate his first "Big Mac" – it was May 17, 1972. He ordered one burger, ate it and left, but stopped halfway home and came back to order another one! Since that very day, Gorske has literally been eating "Big Macs". No, there are other dishes in his diet, for example, Don loves fruit and drinks yogurt before going to bed, but he eats his daily 2 burgers "ironically".

For almost half a century of loyalty to his favorite food, Gorske only lived without Big Macs for two days and, God knows, it was not his fault. The first time he was left without a main dish due to bad weather. One day, Don went to a restaurant during a heavy snowstorm, but McDonald's was closed that day. And the second time the burgers were forgotten for a day because of the death of Don's mother.

Shortly before her death, a woman, concerned about her son's unhealthy passion, asked him to promise that he would give up "Big Macs" for one day when she died. Of course, Gorske fulfilled the will of his mother. As for the man's health, he claims that it is in perfect order. Don takes care of himself and regularly passes tests for cholesterol and sugar. He says that so far everything is normal and his weight is now the same as it was 20 years ago.

Gorske not only eats Big Macs every day, but also collects boxes from them. A man has a habit of bringing home packages from fast food, and in addition, write down every burger he eats in a magazine. This may seem abnormal, but it was such pedantry that helped Gorska prove her achievements in 2016 and get into the Guinness Book of Records as the person who ate the most " Big " in his life Makov".

According to the boxes of burgers stored in the Gorske house, you can trace how their design has changed over the past 48 years. It turns out that the packaging has been changed 50 times, which is not so rare. All the packages of the fast food lover are folded in strict chronological order and are in perfect condition.

Don eats most of the Big Macs at home – he buys several burgers on Tuesday and Thursday and puts them in the refrigerator without freezing them. When he wants to eat, he just takes one out and warms it up in the microwave. Gorske believes that they are no worse warmed up than fresh ones.

How many "Big Macs" have Don Gorske eaten in almost half a century? In May 2018, in an interview with COMO, the 64-year-old record holder said that he had eaten 30 thousand burgers. The man is going to live at least until the age of 78 and his plans are to reach 50 thousand.

In the USA, with their cult of fast food, Don Gorske is a well-known personality and no less recognizable than the famous mascot of the clown network Ronald McDonald.