Comedian Mo Gilligan has described the distressing effects of eating fried chicken for every meal, after undertaking the month-long challenge in a new Netflix film. Drawing inspiration from the hit 2004 documentary Super Size Me – in which filmmaker Morgan Spurlock ate nothing but McDonald’s meals for a month and charted the effects – British comedian Gilligan committed to consuming fast-food chicken for three meals a day, 28 days straight. That first couple of minutes is me being like, this is great.
I can’t even pretend to sugarcoat it, man, I was like, this is really a dream job right now.” Gilligan admitted that while he was conscious of the possibility of side effects, the prospect of damage to his health “didn’t keep me up at night”. Halfway through the task, however, he began to experience a number of changes – and was unable to tell if they were physiological or imagined. As Gilligan told the podcast, there was a “drastic drop” in his wellbeing after a week, and things got worse another week later.
The comic said that he gained weight, started sweating uncontrollably, and suffered mood swings. He also fell into the habit of taking “scary naps” – which felt like deep and intense sleep. Plan auto-renews until cancelled.
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