i love hamburger like no other food
i have eaten 32 340 big macs in my
lifetime
i'm closing in on 50 years next year of
eating them every day
this is a mcdonald's big mac it's the
best sandwich in the world
when i like something i stick with it
all the time my habit right now is just
eat two a day and that would be like 14
a week
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the obsession with big macs began
because for one thing my love of
hamburger
may 17 1972 was the day i got my first
car
i drove to mcdonald's i ordered my first
three big max went out in the car and
ate them
and i said right there that i'm gonna
probably eat these the rest of my life
and i threw the cards in the back seat
and started counting
counting them from day one this is 2006
2007 2008 2009 10 11 12
13 and so on how i keep track of how
many big macs i've eaten
is for one thing i save the cartons
another thing is i save all the receipts
and i also keep a running count on a
calendar i've
kept the running con on the calendar
since may 17 1972
right up through the day so i can tell
you which big macs i ate on which day
this is a mcdonald's big mac it's the
best sandwich in the world
as you see here you've got your uh
sesame seed bun on the top
first patty pickles you have some
lettuce special sauce
and you got your middle bun second patty
slice of cheese or
lettuce and special sauce and then the
bottom of the bun
and that is your best sandwich in the
world
delicious don gorski did not tell me
about his big mac obsession when we
first met i'm not sure it was an
obsession
quite then he ate big macs every day as
a matter of fact
sometimes i would bring him a big mac
but i didn't realize it would go on
forever
i ate my first big mac on may 17 1972
i was started out eating pretty much
nine a day for quite a while here
i'm not a type of person that tries new
stuff and when i like something
i stick with it all the time it's like
for me it's big macs every day
it's coca-cola every day the stuff that
i like is what i
i do every day and it's just part of the
way i am
people that say a big macs aren't
healthy i think it depends on the person
i think for most people if they're
unhealthy it's because they maybe eat
too much
for somebody like me if i eat two big
macs and that's pretty much all i eat
all day
but i like the fries sure but you know
that's one of the things where i feel
like i can keep from eating and not
gain too much weight and also but the
big macs i gotta have
so that's my main diet so don comes into
the restaurant quite often
uh since 1972 he used to come in once a
day and order two big macs
since he's been retired i think he
figured out he was spending more on gas
than he was
on sandwiches so now he picks up six at
a time and eight at that time on mondays
and thursdays
so we get to see him twice a week okay i
probably will be eating big macs
every day for the rest of my life the
only exception is that
mary once told me that when it comes to
where she's got to put a big mac in the
blender that
she says it's over for me but uh if i
eat big macs every day and then when i
do go
well my boys can write down what which
big mac was the last one i ate and they
could tell people
oh this many big macs will kill you as
far as don's health the doctor has said
it's pretty good actually
his blood sugar has been normal his
cholesterol has been exceptionally good
i've stayed in pretty good shape because
for one thing i'm kind of hyperactive
i do a lot of walking i like to joke
with people i tell my
i walk around the block usually but they
don't know that it's six miles around
our block
we have my granddaughter serena seeing
her first
big mac ever and this is my
granddaughter anna
seeing her first big mac ever a lot of
people
that have gotten in touch with me and
they've given me their mcdonald's
collections and
you know just giving me stuff that meant
something to them that was mcdonald's
related and he wanted me to have it
and so it doesn't matter how trivial a
thing mcdonald's
wise that people give me i'm gonna save
it for the rest of my life
big macs always be my favorite food and
it's just like you know sometimes people
will say well what happens if they quit
making them and
they aren't going to quit making them
i'm sure this place will probably just
stay open for me just to
keep making them but i got to thank my
wife for being
patient with me all these years because
she doesn't let it bother her you know
and it's been great being married to her
and putting up with all this stuff
i call him part of the mick family if
you know a little bit about don
he's more of a humble servant with a
great appetite for a great sandwich
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