In case you haven’t heard, the Powerball jackpot has reached a whopping $900 million. If the winner of Saturday’s drawing chooses to take a lump sum (instead of a payout over 30 years) they will take home $558 million before taxes.
In an effort to understand just how large this amount of money is, I have calculated how many popular food items you can buy with $558 million.
Disclaimer: If you do win the Powerball, please do not attempt to purchase this amount of food as that would not be a healthy investment (although I know it’s tempting).
Starbucks
Photo by Kristen Eisenhauer
125,393,258 grande White Chocolate Mochas at $4.45 each.
That’s a whole lot of caffeine.
McDonald’s
Photo courtesy of fastfoodmenuprices.com
139,849,624 Big Macs at $3.99 each.
Or you could go with McNuggets.
111,600,000 20pc. McNuggets at $5.00 each.
That’s 2,232,000,000,000 McNuggets. We’re talking 2 trillion McNuggets here people.
Dairy Queen
Photo courtesy of dairyqueenneenahdowntown.com
151,219,512 small Blizzards at $3.69 each.
Chipotle
Photo by Xinwei Zeng
66,035,503 chicken burritos with guacamole at $8.45 each.
Chick-fil-a
Photo by Kelly Redfield
152,876,712 chicken sandwiches at $3.65 each.
Krispy Kreme
Photo by Virginia Myers
62,068,965 dozens of assorted doughnuts at $8.99 dozen.
That’s 744,827,586 Krispy Kreme doughnuts.
Taco Bell
Photo courtesy of popsci.com
330,177,515 crunchy taco supremes at $1.69 each.
Subway
Photo courtesy of thedenverchannel.com
72,000,000 Subway club footlongs at $7.75 each.
Cook-Out
Photo courtesy of eatcookout.com
200,000,000 milkshakes at $2.79 each.
Sonic
Photo courtesy of sandiegouniontribune.com
468,907,563 slushes at $1.19 each.
Burger King
Photo courtesy of slappedham.com
133,174,224 whoppers at $4.19 each.
While it is not humanly possible to consume 744,827,586 Krispy Kreme doughnuts, the winner of the Powerball can rest comfortably knowing they can afford millions of soft sugary doughnuts.
As for the rest of us broke college students, we can dream about one day being able to afford guacamole on our Chipotle burrito.