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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ramon Antonio Vargas

Record-setting Big Mac eater underwhelmed by McDonald’s new Big Arch burger

A man bites into a McDonald's burger.
Donald Gorske in 2011 eating merely his 25,000 Big Mac at a McDonald’s in his home town of Fond du La, Wisconsin. Photograph: Patrick Flood/AP

The Wisconsin man who holds a seemingly unassailable world record after eating nearly 36,000 Big Macs over his lifetime has found McDonald’s widely publicized new offering, the Big Arch burger, underwhelming.

During a brief interview Sunday on his landline telephone, Donald Gorske said he found the white cheddar cheese and tangy sauce that came on the Big Arch his son brought for him to try on 8 March as less preferable to him than the fixings on the Big Macs he has eaten twice daily since May 1972.

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