Wisconsin man plans to eat 25,000th Big Mac By CARRIE ANTLFINGER Associated Press 
 
 Don Gorske sinks his teeth into his 14,838th Big Mac on May 17, 1997, in Fon du Lac, Wisconsin, where he celebrated his 25th anniversary of daily Big Mac-eating. (AP) 
 
 FOND DU LAC, Wis. (AP) — Don Gorske plans to eat his 25,000th Big Mac on the 39th anniversary of eating his first. 
 
 A special ceremony is planned at McDonald’s in Fond du Lac Tuesday afternoon. 
 
 The 57-year-old Fond du Lac man says he ate nine on May 17, 1972 and has only missed nine days since then, for various reasons. He usually eats two a day. 
 
 He has kept most of the boxes or receipts or has made specific notes in calendars that he’s kept. 
 
 Gorske says he probably has an obsessive-compulsive disorder but he doesn’t consider it a problem. 
 
 He jokes that 25,000 is a milestone because people didn’t think he’d live this long. But he says he recently saw a doctor who said he was in good health and his cholesterol is low. 

 Don Gorske sometimes cannot taste the Big Macs he eats every day. 
 
 But he keeps eating and next week he expects to hit another Big Mac Milestone: On May 17, Gorske plans to consume his 25,000th Big Mac. 
 
 Gorske, 57, says that since birth his taste buds have fluctuated in sensitivity, possibly worsening when he worked inside tanks at a factory. ...
– Don Gorske ate his first Big Mac on May 17, 1972. Today, 39 years later, he will eat his 25,000th. Gorske, 57, normally eats two of the McDonald’s classics a day, but has eaten just one on a number of days this year so that he could hit his milestone on the anniversary. A celebration will be held this afternoon when Gorske bites into the burger in Fond du Lac, Wis., the AP reports via the Chicago Sun-Times. Conveniently enough, today is also Gorske’s retirement party. Gorske, who has kept track of all the Big Macs he’s consumed because of his obsessive-compulsive disorder, sometimes can’t even taste the sandwiches because the sensitivity of his taste buds fluctuates. At today’s event he will display his receipts and the cartons of 10,000 Big Macs, which are normally stored in bins at his house, according to the Fond du Lac Reporter. Surprisingly, his cholesterol level is a desirable 156 mg/dL. Not surprisingly, the Guinness Book of Records awarded him the record for Most Big Macs Consumed when it verified his 23,000th Big Mac in 2008.