From fast food pit stops on 9/11 to biting live frogs, the late great Marlon Brando was apparently an absolute mongrel when it came to his eating habits. Brando who is known for his iconic roles in films such as Apocalypse Now and The Godfather, had a real issue with binge-eating, as this viral Twitter thread documents in gluttonous detail.
Thanks to the diligent work of user ObtainerOfRareAntiquities, we've compiled some of the most disturbing meals ever taken down by the actor. Brando achieved some impressive feats which include but are not limited to a 5-gallon tub of ice cream, peanut butter by the jar, and challenging Paul Newman to an egg-eating contest.
Marlon Brando was a titanic glutton with consumption habits that strike fear into the hearts of ordinary men. His binge eating was a torment to those he worked with and he displayed truly bizarre behavior in attempt to satisfy his endless hunger
— ObtainerOfRareAntiquities (@ObtainerOf) March 8, 2023
*Thread* pic.twitter.com/2mwjNlcmBr
In his mid 20s, Brando's diet could be excused by his age and a fast metabolism, a co-star on his first movie said his diet consisted of fast food and peanut butter consumed by the jar. He was known for eating entire boxes of donuts and "Mallomars" as a snack pic.twitter.com/cDVZT7UIfE
— ObtainerOfRareAntiquities (@ObtainerOf) March 8, 2023
At this time Brando was in great shape, starving himself before roles, but when his willpower broke he feasted on cornflakes, breakfast meats, eggs, a quart of milk, bananas and towering stacks of pancakes drenched in an entire bottle of syrup (He nicknamed himself "Branflakes") pic.twitter.com/LCFqeUGogF
— ObtainerOfRareAntiquities (@ObtainerOf) March 8, 2023
While filming "Mutiny on the Bounty", Brando split 52 pairs of pants, had a plane flown into Tahiti full of hams and Champagne and one night rowed out into the lagoon with a 5 gallon tub of ice cream he ate while the director begged him to stop from shore pic.twitter.com/hKoSX4KM5T
— ObtainerOfRareAntiquities (@ObtainerOf) March 8, 2023
At an Oscar's after party, Brando challenged Paul Newman to and egg eating contest due to Newman starring in a film where he eats 50 eggs. Newman said no, but Brando had dozens of eggs brought to the party and ate 51, the entire time calling Newman a coward and a fraud pic.twitter.com/3Fho89PA3o
— ObtainerOfRareAntiquities (@ObtainerOf) March 8, 2023
He was known for disguising himself at night and frequenting the hot-dog stands of LA, putting back half a dozen dogs at a time. His favorite sandwich was a pound of bacon on an entire loaf of bread
— ObtainerOfRareAntiquities (@ObtainerOf) March 8, 2023
In a truly bizarre moment during the filming of Missouri Breaks, Brando plucked a live frog out of a pond, took a bite out of it and tossed it back pic.twitter.com/fUNyDMZQw2
— ObtainerOfRareAntiquities (@ObtainerOf) March 8, 2023
Later in life he promised his girlfriend that he would lose weight, but after months of a strict diet there was no change. She discovered that Brando had been paying a local boy to toss bags of BurgerKing Whoppers over the walls of his estate at night
— ObtainerOfRareAntiquities (@ObtainerOf) March 8, 2023
Brando owned a private island in French Polynesia and he invented a snack he called "Real-life mound bars" He would crack a coconut then stir in sun melted chocolate before devouring pic.twitter.com/TkY09RP75f
— ObtainerOfRareAntiquities (@ObtainerOf) March 8, 2023
During 9-11 Brando was fleeing NYC in a car with Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor, the two were frustrated by Brando forcing the driver to pull over every time they passed a fast food restaurant on the highway
— ObtainerOfRareAntiquities (@ObtainerOf) March 8, 2023
In his old age Brando ballooned to an imposing 400 lbs. Workers at an LA diner say that Brando would be wheeled in and order multiple bacon and egg sandwiches which consisted of eggs wrapped in bacon, no bun pic.twitter.com/G6LIDIR4XL
— ObtainerOfRareAntiquities (@ObtainerOf) March 8, 2023
What an absolute unit. We don't come down on the Christian Bales of the world when they go full method and lose hundreds of pound just to regain that weight for their next role. So I won't be putting down Brando for his diet. If anything I have a deeper respect for the late actor who would literally break into his fridge after maids would lock it up. I'll be drinking an entire bottle of syrup in his honor.
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