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Brooklyn Nets forward Mikal Bridges recently admitted he’s been eating Chipotle every single day for the past 10 years and he’s spent a small fortune along the way.
With a 4-year, $90 million contract the dude can afford it. Mikal Bridges revealed his habit in a recent ’10 Things I Can’t Live Without’ video on GQ that accompanied a recent profile of him.
In the video, he shared his go-to order which is ‘white rice, double chicken, medium and mild salsa, no beans, corn and lettuce’ and FOS ran the math on that to determine he’s spent over $50,000 on Chipotle over this span. Here’s the clip (and full clip):
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I ran the math on this, just how many days he’s been eating Chipotle. Without specifying when in 2013 he started eating it every day we can just pull a few different numbers.
Assuming this began on 1/1/13, Mikal Bridges has been eating Chipotle for 4,013 days in a row. If he started in the middle of the year on July 2nd, he’s been eating Chipotle for 3,831 days straight. And if he started on the last day of the year it’s only been 3,649 consecutive days of eating Chipotle for Mikal Bridges.
Far be it for me to judge anyone who eats fast-food for 4,000 days in a row, especially a professional athlete making over $21 million a year and who is in perfect shape. But the recent GQ profile did touch on how he’s able to eat anything he wants.
They wrote:
Bridges is notably thin, one of those people who could eat anything and everything growing up and not see any physical changes. He’s tailored his diet to fit the standards of the efficiency-driven sporting world, but still maintains a lean appearance that makes him look almost like a swimmer—all drawn-out proportions and gangly features—not someone who has to consistently absorb body blows from seven-foot behemoths.
One can’t help but wonder how Chipotle falls under the umbrella of “tailored his diet to fit the standards of the efficiency-driven sporting world.” But he’s averaging 21.1pts this season with 5+ rebounds so whatever the former Villanova star is doing it’s working.