You Want Fries with That?

Here's a guy whose cholesterol would probably blow mine away...

A 54-year-old man says his obsessive-compulsive disorder drove him to eat 23,000 Big Macs in 36 years. Fifty-four-year-old Don Gorske says he hit the milestone last month, continuing a pleasurable obsession that began May 17, 1972 when he got his first car.

Gorske has kept every burger receipt in a box. He says he was always fascinated with numbers, and watching McDonald's track its number of customers motivated him to track his own consumption.

The only day he skipped a Big Mac was the day his mother died, to respect her request.

The guy's been eating Big Macs for longer than I've been alive. I'm just glad he didn't switch to the Mc D.L.T. in the 1980's. That was awfully tempting, what with this commercial...