Today is National Junk Food Day — a day meant to celebrate the greasy, sweet, and satisfying treats that we can't ever seem to resist.
In honor of this auspicious event, let's take a look at 14 very successful individuals who got their start making the highly caloric meals that we all love:
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO
As Business Insider previously reported, Bezos used to work at McDonald's.
In Cody Teets's "Golden Opportunity: Remarkable Careers That Began at McDonald's," Bezos revealed that he worked the grill and that the job taught him responsibility.
"My first week on the job, a five-gallon, wall-mounted ketchup dispenser got stuck open in the kitchen and dumped a prodigious quantity of ketchup into every hard-to-reach kitchen crevice. Since I was the new guy, they handed me the cleaning solution and said, 'Get going!'"
Rachel McAdams, actress
When she was just starting out, McAdams also worked at McDonald's.
By her own words, the now-actress wasn't a very good employee at the fast food giant, as Business Insider previously reported.
According to US Magazine, the "Spotlight" star once broke an orange juice machine.
Barack Obama, President of the United States
You heard that right. The current president of the United States worked at Baskin-Robbins in high school, as Business Insider previously reported.
He wrote about the experience on LinkedIn: "Scooping ice cream is tougher than it looks. Rows and rows of rock-hard ice cream can be brutal on the wrists."
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