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This McDonald's Fan Just Ate His 30,000th Big Mac. The Math Shows Just How Staggering That Is
"This one is a biggie for me, something I have been looking forward to."
By Bill Murphy Jr.Executive editor of operations, Some Spider, and founder, ProGhostwriters.com@BillMurphyJr
I'll bet you can guess where Don Gorske celebrates his birthdays.
He celebrated another, more unique milestone yesterday, when he ate his 30,000th Big Mac at a McDonald's in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, which happens to be the same McDonald's he visited when he ate his first Big Mac back in 1972.
I suspect that means he's been McDonald's most loyal customer since well before at least half of the people who read this article were born. Heck, even the guy who invented Big Macs, and who died recently at age 98, said he only ate one a week.
But to understand just how devoted a fan Gorske is, I think we need to break out the calculator.
(Or yes, the calculator function on your phone. I'm not that old.)
We should point out two things first: that Gorske already holds the record for having eaten the most Big Macs; he crossed that threshold according to the Guinness people back in October.
And second, he has both "obsessive compulsive disorder and a meticulous memory," according to the FDL Reporter, a local newspaper that marked his milestone.
"While he has managed through the years to preserve and categorize most everything related to his Big Mac obsession, he did lose about 7,000 or so Styrofoam cartons that were damaged in a tornado that blew the soffits off his house on June 2, 1990," the paper reported.
I'll leave that part right there, since the environmental mess described did take place 28 years ago.
But it's an absurd number of Big Macs. To start with, eating 30,000 over 46 years would require eating 652 per year. And that in turn would work out to consuming 1.786 Big Macs every single day since the Nixon administration.
Indeed, Gorske reports that there have only been eight days during which he didn't eat a Big Mac that entire time: once because an intense snowstorm stopped him from reaching McDonald's, for example, and once on the day in 1988 when his mother died.
Also, given that each Big Mac has two 1.6-ounce beef patties, it means Gorske has eaten more than 6,000 pounds of beef, which might work out to (and this is the most grotesque thing I've ever calculated for an Inc.com article), about 10 cows.
Actually, as bad as that is, over 46 years I thought it might be higher. However, it would also mean 16.89 million calories.
Now age 64, Goerske is a retired prison guard, and he's as into Big Macs as ever.
In fact, after the little ceremony the local Mickey D's held for him, he got a second one to-go: number 30,001.
"Maybe I'll be eating it when I catch myself on the news," he said.
Published on: May 6, 2018
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...chael-wolff-fast-food-diet-coke-a8141396.html
Donald Trump eats McDonald's food to avoid being poisoned, claims new book
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It’s no secret that Donald Trump loves fast food.
We know that his go-to McDonald’s order is “two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted.”
We also know that he “never ate the bread” in his fast food binges.
What Donald Trump orders from McDonald's
But it was never clear exactly why the US President is so partial to a McDonald’s. Until now.
No, it’s not just because he loves salty, greasy food - it’s because Trump is afraid of being poisoned.
According to a new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, POTUS likes fast food because no one knows he’s going to be there so there’s no chance of anyone tampering with the food.
“He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s — nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade,” writes author Michael Wolff, revealed in an excerpt of the book published by New York Magazine.
The book sheds light on a seemingly paranoid side to Trump’s personality.
What drinking 12 cans of Diet Coke a day is doing to Trump's body
Wolff claims that the President didn’t want White House staff touching anything in his room, “especially not his toothbrush.”
“He reprimanded the housekeeping staff for picking up his shirt from the floor,” says Wolff, adding that Trump reportedly said: “If my shirt is on the floor, it’s because I want it on the floor.”
Wolff also says that if the President wasn’t having dinner with Steve Bannon, he could likely be found in bed at 6.30pm, with a cheeseburger and three screens.
From there he would make calls to a small group of friends, “who charted his rising and falling levels of agitation through the evening and then compared notes with one another.”
At least knowing the burger was safe should’ve given Trump some comfort.
This McDonald's Fan Just Ate His 30,000th Big Mac. The Math Shows Just How Staggering That Is
"This one is a biggie for me, something I have been looking forward to."
By Bill Murphy Jr.Executive editor of operations, Some Spider, and founder, ProGhostwriters.com@BillMurphyJr
I'll bet you can guess where Don Gorske celebrates his birthdays.
He celebrated another, more unique milestone yesterday, when he ate his 30,000th Big Mac at a McDonald's in Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, which happens to be the same McDonald's he visited when he ate his first Big Mac back in 1972.
I suspect that means he's been McDonald's most loyal customer since well before at least half of the people who read this article were born. Heck, even the guy who invented Big Macs, and who died recently at age 98, said he only ate one a week.
But to understand just how devoted a fan Gorske is, I think we need to break out the calculator.
(Or yes, the calculator function on your phone. I'm not that old.)
We should point out two things first: that Gorske already holds the record for having eaten the most Big Macs; he crossed that threshold according to the Guinness people back in October.
And second, he has both "obsessive compulsive disorder and a meticulous memory," according to the FDL Reporter, a local newspaper that marked his milestone.
"While he has managed through the years to preserve and categorize most everything related to his Big Mac obsession, he did lose about 7,000 or so Styrofoam cartons that were damaged in a tornado that blew the soffits off his house on June 2, 1990," the paper reported.
I'll leave that part right there, since the environmental mess described did take place 28 years ago.
But it's an absurd number of Big Macs. To start with, eating 30,000 over 46 years would require eating 652 per year. And that in turn would work out to consuming 1.786 Big Macs every single day since the Nixon administration.
Indeed, Gorske reports that there have only been eight days during which he didn't eat a Big Mac that entire time: once because an intense snowstorm stopped him from reaching McDonald's, for example, and once on the day in 1988 when his mother died.
Also, given that each Big Mac has two 1.6-ounce beef patties, it means Gorske has eaten more than 6,000 pounds of beef, which might work out to (and this is the most grotesque thing I've ever calculated for an Inc.com article), about 10 cows.
Actually, as bad as that is, over 46 years I thought it might be higher. However, it would also mean 16.89 million calories.
Now age 64, Goerske is a retired prison guard, and he's as into Big Macs as ever.
In fact, after the little ceremony the local Mickey D's held for him, he got a second one to-go: number 30,001.
"Maybe I'll be eating it when I catch myself on the news," he said.
Published on: May 6, 2018
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...chael-wolff-fast-food-diet-coke-a8141396.html
Donald Trump eats McDonald's food to avoid being poisoned, claims new book
19
Click to follow
Indy/Life
It’s no secret that Donald Trump loves fast food.
We know that his go-to McDonald’s order is “two Big Macs, two Fillet-O-Fish, and a chocolate malted.”
We also know that he “never ate the bread” in his fast food binges.
What Donald Trump orders from McDonald's
But it was never clear exactly why the US President is so partial to a McDonald’s. Until now.
No, it’s not just because he loves salty, greasy food - it’s because Trump is afraid of being poisoned.
According to a new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, POTUS likes fast food because no one knows he’s going to be there so there’s no chance of anyone tampering with the food.
“He had a longtime fear of being poisoned, one reason why he liked to eat at McDonald’s — nobody knew he was coming and the food was safely premade,” writes author Michael Wolff, revealed in an excerpt of the book published by New York Magazine.
The book sheds light on a seemingly paranoid side to Trump’s personality.
What drinking 12 cans of Diet Coke a day is doing to Trump's body
Wolff claims that the President didn’t want White House staff touching anything in his room, “especially not his toothbrush.”
“He reprimanded the housekeeping staff for picking up his shirt from the floor,” says Wolff, adding that Trump reportedly said: “If my shirt is on the floor, it’s because I want it on the floor.”
Wolff also says that if the President wasn’t having dinner with Steve Bannon, he could likely be found in bed at 6.30pm, with a cheeseburger and three screens.
From there he would make calls to a small group of friends, “who charted his rising and falling levels of agitation through the evening and then compared notes with one another.”
At least knowing the burger was safe should’ve given Trump some comfort.
