Man ‘addicted’ to cheese has spent £60k on cheddar and eats at least two blocks a day

A man who is “addicted” to cheese has spent over £60,000 on cheddar over the years and manages to get through at least two blocks a day.

Mark King, 54, will put an entire block of cheese into a sandwich and would happily eat four a day if his wife, 49-year-old Tracey, would let him.

But despite this, they claim doctors insist that Mark, a woodyard worker from Maidstone, Kent, is perfectly healthy – and the dad of four even boasts a six-pack after ‘acclimatising’ to the dairy product.

He’ll eat cheese with every meal, but skips macaroni and cheese and cauliflower cheese – because they’re not cheesy enough for him.

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“My husband probably eats the most amount of cheese that’s humanly possible. He has two packs a day, he would eat a lot more but I’ve calmed him down – it got a bit out of control, to be honest,” Tracey, a former cleaner, told the Mirror this National Cheese Day.

“I did a video on my TikTok account and it got millions of views and thousands of comments saying he’ll have a heart attack and all that, because of the cheese.

“He’s very healthy, I don’t think he would have a heart attack – he’s so muscular. I took him to the GP for bloods and all that and everything came back perfect.

“The GP said because he’s been eating it for so long it’s like he’s acclimatized to it.

“When we met 25 years ago, he was doing these sandwiches – his favourite is a block of cheese in between two pieces of bread – he cuts it up. He has it with marmite, mayonnaise, and white pepper.

“He’s eaten four in a day before.”

Tracey insists that while now she thinks it’s a bit peculiar, initially she didn’t think twice about her husband’s cheese intake because he’s always lived that way.

She continued: “I didn’t think anything of it before, but since I did the video I’ve got a bit worried. He said to me, ‘don’t be so stupid, I’ve always eaten it’.

“There’s no side effects, he’s very muscular – he’s nearly 55 and he’s got like a six-pack, I don’t understand it. It makes me ill immediately, I can’t eat cheese at all.

“We worked it out, just recently where we’ve moved to there’s a shop near us, we were buying a couple of blocks a day and now we’re trying to get it down to one a day.”

Tracey explained that Mark would spend around £7 a day on cheese, each and every day, adding up to £210 a month, £2,520 a year, or “£63,000 since I’ve known him”.

Tracey continued: “He points out that he doesn’t smoke, and that’s £20 a day.

“It’s been quite funny, he’s been in a few newspapers. It’s all good for us, it’s his real life.

“Everything we have – whether it’s a shepherd’s pie or whatever, he covers it with cheese.

“He won’t eat macaroni and cheese, he doesn’t like pasta. Cathedral City sent us a big hamper when they found out we were going on TV, and there was mac and cheese in there and he wouldn’t touch them – there’s not enough cheese on there for his liking.

“He doesn’t like nachos either. He’ll rarely eat cauliflower cheese – cheese sauces don’t appeal to him.

“Everyone calls him the cheese king on TikTok now, people recognise us in the street and go, ‘oh my God, it’s the cheese king’!”