Don Gorske is the center of media attention Monday, July 19, 2004, as he munches his 20,000th Big Mac at McDonald's in Fond du Lac, Wis.
If you saw Morgan Spurlock's Super Size Me, which took plenty of jabs at the fast food industry, you saw Don Gorske — the man so in love with McDonald's that he gobbles down about one Big Mac a day (he says he's only missed eight days since 1972).
Earlier this year, all that McGrubbin' finally caught up to Gorske; The 57-year-old registered his 25,000th Big Mac in May — meaning that over the span of 40 years, he's consumed 13.5 million calories. That's 725,000 grams of fat — and 26 million milligrams of sodium. Perhaps the sign under the Golden Arches should actually read "2.2 Billion Served — Mostly to Don Gorske."