McDonald’s Big Mac record holder breaks another milestone at 70

A 70-year-old man has shocked people worldwide, after celebrating another McDonald’s milestone that’s breaking records.

A US man has extended his record for the most McDonald’s Big Macs eaten in a lifetime.

Don Gorske, who is now 70 years of age, gained the Guinness world title back in 1999 for his love of Big Macs, and now he’s extended it after eating a further 728 Big Macs according to the award company. This means that he’s eaten over 34,000 Big Macs.

He achieved his groundbreaking Big Mac fame as a result of eating nine Big Macs each day, but to maintain his health, he’s recently cut these numbers down. 

Now, Gorske only eats two Big Macs daily – one for lunch, and one for dinner.

What Gorske had to say about Big Mac milestone

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When Gorske was asked about his achievements, he said that many people couldn’t actually believe he wasn’t dead. 

“Many people thought I’d be dead by now, but instead, I’ve been a record holder for my 24th year — one of Guinness World Records’ longer-running record holders, so that’s pretty cool to me,” the 70-year-old says. 

Gorske, who is a retired prison officer, has been eating Big Macs since the 1970s when he first tried one. 

Despite this, he says: “People who have watched me eating a Big Mac often comment that I look like I’m eating one for the very first time.

“At that moment, I said: ‘I’m going to probably eat these for the rest of my life.’ I threw the cartons in the back seat and started counting them from day one.”

In other McDonald’s news, a customer went viral after they raged at workers at the drive-thru who told them to park up.