Q: “Do you eat one-handed? Do you have the same format for all of them?”Ī: “I pretty much eat all my Big Macs two-handed. I’m just one of those people that when I find something that I like, I stick with it forever.” I found the right wife, so that’s going to be my wife forever. Q: “Is the single most dedicated thing that you have in your life? And what’s number two?”Ī: “I’m pretty much, uh, they’d probably call it ‘obsessive compulsive’ about everything. – Gorske is taking questions from the media. He seems really happy to be here.ġ1:30 a.m. He’s wearing a black McDonald’s jacket and sporting a colorful Big Mac tie. Gorske, 63, looks great: a Shoji Tabuchi bowl haircut, a long ponytail, some wispy gray muttonchops, and a pair of John Lennon granny glasses. Big Mac” as someone who appears to be the McDonald’s manager escorts him through the fray. A throng of news cameras and cell phones surround “Mr. – Gorske steps out of the limo with all the pomp and circumstance of a Hollywood red carpet ceremony and/or a Racine post prom and makes his way inside. Oh shit, Gorske’s here! Yes, the actual Don Gorske! The Don Gorske who has eaten more than 29,000 Big Macs! The Don Gorske who was in Super Size Me! And he’s arriving in a white limo! People are “oo”ing and “ahh”ing as the limo pulls up. – I’m watching the actual McDonald’s employees look at the rest of us like we’re crazy (we are), when I sense some hubbub. “Looks like it, buddy,” the guy behind me replies.ġ1:28 a.m. We are here, present in this moment, joined by two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, and onions on a sesame seed bun. It occurs to me that while I may not be wearing a suit (seriously, why are there so many people wearing suits here?), I am, in fact, all of these people. Regular schmoes, people in suits for some reason, people from the media (every local news station seems to be accounted for), and people who look like the kind of people who would show up to a McDonald’s at 11:30 on a Thursday morning for a chance to shake hands with a guy who has eaten nearly 30,000 Big Macs. – Yep, there are a lot of people here, all right. Where has the time gone? What happened to the innocence, the joy, the styrofoam containers that kept the hot side hot and the cool side cool? Is life truly just a meaningless slog of diminishing returns? I walk in.ġ1:15 a.m. Cheese are one thing-there are kid games for the kids and adult beverages for the adults-but McDonald’s? They don’t even have those janky-ass playgrounds like they used to, with the Mayor McCheese death towers you could climb up and fuck around in.
My god, do people still do that? Throw birthday parties for their children at fast food joints? I mean, birthdays at Chuck E. I flash back to birthday parties my friends and I had at Mickey D’s when we were kids. From the outside I can see balloons, streamers, and what looks to be a whole lot of people. – I arrive at the McDonald’s on 68 th and North, deep in the heart of Wauwatosa. This is a minute-by-minute report.ġ1:13 a.m. Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin appeared at a Wauwatosa McDonald’s to be acknowledged once again, to be seen once again, to revel in his achievement, to inspire those who might follow in his footsteps, and to hand out complimentary bottles of Big Mac Special Sauce. And on the morning of January 26, 2017, Donald A. Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin has eaten more than 29,000 Big Macs since 1972. Gorske of Fond du Lac, Wisconsin has been seen. They don’t look up when I sit down.” Leonard, of course, is expressing his need for something we’re all in need of: the need to be seen, the need to be acknowledged, the need to be recognized, the need to leave a mark.ĭonald A. Then I go home and I watch my wife and my kids. “I work in an office, people walk right by me. “I’ve never been interesting to anybody,” Leonard says. There, a man named Leonard bares his soul. There’s a scene in the final episode of Mad Men where a lost and bottomed-out Don Draper finds himself in a confessional seminar at a New Age-y retreat.
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