How many burgers is *too* many burgers? That’s what this Wisconsin man is trying to find out.


Seventy-year-old Fond du Lac, Wisconsin resident Don Gorske recently became one of Guinness World Records’ longest-running holders. The reason? He’s been eating Big Macs every day since 1972.



According to Gorske, his habit has waned in recent years, but he still gets in about 2 burgers a day. At his peak, Gorske was throwing nine burgers down his gullet in a single day, but as of late, he’s cut down, opting for just a few burgers while removing add-ons like fries and adding walking into his exercise regimen. These changes, he says, will make it so he can keep eating Big Macs until the day he dies.


Let’s get into a little history. Gorske says his obsessions began in 1972 when, per The Guardian, he ate one McDonald’s burger and decided, “I’m going to probably eat these for the rest of my life.” Since then, he’s been on a quest to down as many McDonald’s burgers as possible, saving every receipt and container from each burger.


While this may already seem a bit unhinged, the way Gorske actually consumes the burgers moves him, in my view, from eccentric to crazy. “Gorske now usually goes to McDonald’s twice weekly, orders batches of Big Macs and — after eating a fresh one — takes them home to microwave when he’s hungry,” writes author Ramon Antonio Vargas.


That’s right: If you thought this man was eating fresh burgers, you thought wrong. Microwave city, baby!


No matter what I think, Gorske seems content, even if he’s devoted his life to a major Wisconsin sin (choosing McDonald’s over Culver’s). He keeps going to McDonald’s, proposed to his wife in a McDonald’s parking lot and says that he’s going to continue until his heart inevitably fills with processed cheese.


“When I like something, I stick with it all the time,” Gorske told Guinness, via The Guardian. “People who have watched me eating a Big Mac often comment that I look like I’m eating one for the very first time.”