I didn't know what they were going to give me. Whatever came, I tried to eat it. I went hungry a lot because I've always hated pickles. A lot of times the food at McDonald's came with a lot of pickles, and when I ordered I'd just grab the food, go to the hotel, sit down to eat, and open it to find pickles. I'd immediately throw it in the trash. | | | | Pond Hockey in Lake Louise, Alberta.
(Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “I didn't know what they were going to give me. Whatever came, I tried to eat it. I went hungry a lot because I've always hated pickles. A lot of times the food at McDonald's came with a lot of pickles, and when I ordered I'd just grab the food, go to the hotel, sit down to eat, and open it to find pickles. I'd immediately throw it in the trash.”
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