Soggy McMuffins and Cherry Coke all day: how Warren Buffett eats like a 6-year-old
- Warren Buffett’s weird diet includes copious amounts of Cherry Coke, junk food and no alcohol – and he also has an aversion to vegetables, writes Bob Bryan
Warren Buffett is one of the most successful investors in history. He also has a really weird diet.
The Berkshire Hathaway CEO drinks about five cans of Coca-Cola products a day, constantly munches on See’s Candies, and uses so much salt that John Stumpf, the former Wells Fargo CEO, said it was like a “snowstorm”.
Business Insider has tried various people’s diets – from Elon Musk’s to Tom Brady’s – so I decided to take on Buffett’s strange food tastes for a work week to see what it was like.
The cornerstone of the Buffett diet: Cherry Coke.
Buffett, aged 88, has reportedly said he is “one-quarter Coca-Cola”.
He said he favoured either Diet Coke or Cherry Coke and had at least five cans of the soda a day.
I decided to opt for exclusively Cherry Coke throughout the week, as I’m not the biggest fan of the taste of plain Coke. I am, however, a fan of cherry and cherry-adjacent soda products like Dr Pepper and Cheerwine (it’s a North Carolina thing – Google it).
I also couldn’t purchase cans of the stuff at my local grocery store, but a two-litre works out to 5.6 cans a day, within the ballpark of Buffett’s consumption. Thus, I decided to go with one of these each day.
If you’re wondering, that works out to 252 grammes of sugar a day from the Cherry Coke alone. That’s right – I got 84 per cent of my recommended daily carbohydrate intake from just the sugar in the Cherry Coke.