Sunday Rerun: Mac Daddy

 I'm fond of pointing out the irony of Jim Fixx, author of "The Complete Book of Running," and an accomplished jogger, dropping dead while out doing a couple of miles on the road, while Keith Richards took unimaginable quantities of drugs, and flourishes to this day. He even fell out of a coconut tree and landed on his own coconut and lived to tell the story.

I'm sure there are plenty of illustrations of this, but the point is that some people are meant to live long, long lives while tossing all caution to the wind, and some people who live like monks head to the field of stones very early.

And if you add a case of OCD in which someone tabulates all their food intake, and an insatiable desire to eat Big Macs, the signature stacker from McDonald's, well, you get Don Gorske, who just last week added to his own Guinness World Record for McConsumption by sliding his 30,000th Mac down his McNeck.

Gorske is a retired prison guard from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.  He's 64, and started chowing down on two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions on a sesame seed bun in 1972. In fact, that first time, he ate three of them at lunch, and went back twice more to rack up an impressive total of nine Macs in one day.

He downed 265 Big Macs in the first month of his inFATuation with them, but he is not fat at all, tipping the scales at a slender 185 lbs with a cholesterol level of 165. He stands 6' 2" tall as he waits at the counter for his next one.

"I love the patties, I love the sauce, I can't get enough of it," Gorske told the New York Post.

Gorske gobbling

And since that day in 1972, he has missed only been eight days of Maculation. Once, it was the day his mother died, and he skipped his Mac at her request. Snow days, Thanksgiving, travel days, and days he got stuck at work past McClosing Time account for the other 7.

He now keeps an emergency stash of Frozen Macs in case of future emergencies.

Gorsky also:

• met and proposed to his wife Mary at McDonald's.
• has a statue of Ronald McDonald in his yard.
• drinks hardly anything but Coke 
• almost always does not eat the fries
• keeps a log in a little notebook detailing all his Mac purchases
• keeps a box with the receipts from all his Mac purchases
• puts candles on a Mac for his birthday
• skips traditional Christmas food with his family in favor of guess what
• and has eaten one Burger King Whopper in his life

That came about when a friend bet him five bucks he wouldn't eat a Whopper, so he did it and won the fiver and spent it on...

You know what he spent it on.