The Egg McMuffin inventor is dead

as long as the mcgriddle inventor thrives im good

fuckin' kids these days got no respect

stay up late every night, do you?

"Discoverer".

i would eat one in memorium tomorrow morning but i'm on an island w/o fast food for two weeks ;_;

RIP big man

"Can you say 'Egg McMuffin'?" "Egga Muffin."

dude lived to be 89. Clearly he didn't consume his invention on a regular basis.

Or he invented it late in life.

I'm not sure how you can "invent" the idea of egg, cheese and ham on an English muffin, but whatever.

he invented its remix

Dude I don't have time for this manufactured, cheesy breakfast food...

...wait a minute, it's great!

don't think i ever bought one of these, just the big breakfast a few times

The Big Breakfast is just a sausage and egg McMuffin separated out, with the egg scrambled.

no cheese or ham tho - a world of difference

Ah, but the Hotcakez/Pancakes and Sausage tho...

No ham? What do you call Richard Bacon then?

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This is the only McDonald's food item I will stick up for.

"No ham? What do you call Richard Bacon then?"

a useless prick?

You could just go to a cash machine you know.

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Snap. Also in Britain the Sausage and Egg McMuffin is pretty much the only place to get sausage in PATTY form (square sausage is a completely different piggy-flavoured beast BTW, Scots, don't even go there).

I don't think I can bring myself to get my spicy breakfast sausage fix from McDonald's, sorry dead McMuffin dude.

That's okay Tracer, I thought they were shite too.

Also in Britain the Sausage and Egg McMuffin is pretty much the only place to get sausage in PATTY form

i suspect that Poland would cater for yr suasage needs just fine, Suzy. a large helping of kielbasy virtually doubled the weight of my suitcase on the way home from Gdansk yesterday cf flying out. (I am not joking).

POLSKA KIELBASA! That's what my mom puts in her sauerkraut and potatoes, as directed by her late Polish grandmother who owned a tavern.

Now that their eggs are free range I don't feel quite so bad about eating the occasional McMuffin, because sometimes there's just a place for plasticky cheese slices, and this usage and a proper American diner cheeseburger are those two places. The sausage in them is herby, not spicy as such.

I have been known to remove Cumberlands or Lincolnshires from their casings to make sausage patties for boutique version of the McMuffin, which features posh cheese and a more gently cooked egg.

He just some sad-ass down at the basement of McDonalds, thinkin up some shit to make some money for the real players.

Bacon Egg Cheese BISCUIT pwns the McMuffin, I'm afraid </Shakey>

Big fluffy biscuits better than English muffins shocker.

WTF is this biscuit of which you speak?

Sorry, only found in America (it's the biscuit of the American south, not a McVities-type biscuit).

omg @ this thread

http://www.jacksonlocal.com/mcdonalds/images/bec.jpg

The true shame of Britain is that UK KFC doesn't SERVE BISCUITS. That's like the main reason to go to KFC in the first place.

^^^I have thought this exact thought many a time^^^

I still ask, even though I know what the answer's going to be. It's this stubborn thing. Like being in a British Subway and asking for oil and vinegar. I know what's going to happen but I can't help myself.

Ha Tracer I can't believe after McD's criticism you admit patronage of Subway. Ewwwwwwww.

Yes I have been known to "eat fresh" from time to time.

I second Suzy's Ewwwwwwww. I had an egg sub from Subway somewhere in Canada (White River, possibly, or Sault Ste Marie) and it was one of the worst things I have ever tasted. there are now, some seven years later, at least three Subways in Oxford, two of which are less than 500 metres from each other, which is nuts, but i will never darken their doors.

what exactly is fresh about it? if what i ate was representative then it is one of the most processed things evah!

The true shame of Britain is that UK KFC doesn't SERVE BISCUITS. That's like the main reason to go to KFC in the first place.

-- Tracer Hand, Thursday, 27 March 2008 12:48 (31 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

They used to! Back in 1990, when I met Dawn, she'd usually get one when we went.

because the put stuff in bread in the shop its apparently "fresh"

i bought one of these this morning. you know why?

it was outta -respect-.

My mom used to throw some eggs and cheese on an English muffin and tell us we were having "Egg McMuffins" for dinner, and I always got annoyed and said "they're not Egg McMuffins if they're not from McDonald's!" (The copy editor as a young boy.)

"Mom, I allegedly hit my brother."

Did you press it against your heart and eat it standing up? (xxpost)

I wonder when this guy is going to die/is he already dead?: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Cvq3Pf3j61c

"Man, whoever invented these, yo he off the hook. Muhfuhka got the bone all the way OUT the damn chicken".

My mom used to throw some eggs and cheese on an English muffin and tell us we were having "Egg McMuffins" for dinner, and I always got annoyed and said "they're not Egg McMuffins if they're not from McDonald's!" (The copy editor as a young boy.)

Mom's best efforts falling victim to the insidious disease of brand loyalty.

I don't even think that was it, it was more like I was railing against the use of McMuffin as a generic term like kleenex or xerox.

Oh I would have definitely called forgery on that shit. I wouldn't mind if my mom did that but I'd say it wasn't a proper facsimile without the bacon/ham/sausage patty.

Cannot wait for my new stove/hob to arrive, as I'm 100 yards from a proper butcher (French blackleg chickens, great lamb, own-recipe sausages) that supplies some of the best restaurants in London and also sells the free range eggs. I will be providing McFacsimiles from 10.30am daily for self and any others.

C'mon even as a kid I knew sharp farm cheddar at home was better than that orange plastic shit. I used to ruin mini-Tupperware making scram eggs in the MICROWAVE so they kept the round shape.

the achewood cookbook has a great way of doing the egg mcmuffin microwave egg patty thing in it, using a real egg. I need to get another copy of that thing

I used real eggs, too. They puff up in the micro naturally, I think? I'm sure there are finer points that'll make them less rubbery or wahtever but it was good enough.

oh man, one of my college roommates used to microwave an egg every morning and make his own mcmuffins. nuking eggs seems so rong.

As I said before, Kraft-type plastic cheese has two places - and two places only - in my life: on an Egg McMuffin and on a diner cheeseburger of the type I have been making for 25 years (my first job: waitress/short order cook at drugstore soda fountain). Sharp cheddar is better for the interior of a Juicy Lucy for sure, or in a patty melt. I defy any grill jockey on ILX to best me at burgers.

Having lived with a microwave as my only source of food heating for the past two months, YUCK to the idea of eggs cooked in one. I need the taste of butter that has been melted in a saucepan underneath those scrambled eggs.

guys mcdonalds uses real eggs too

EGG MCMUFFINS ARE SO DELICIOUS!

In Britain they use free range eggs, in fact.

Cannot wait for my new stove/hob to arrive, as I'm 100 yards from a proper butcher (French blackleg chickens, great lamb, own-recipe sausages) that supplies some of the best restaurants in London and also sells the free range eggs. I will be providing McFacsimiles from 10.30am daily for self and any others.

1) Call me!
2) Where is this?

1) Get my number from Ed! Or mail me, would love to hang out.
2) Butcher on Theobald's Road next to Fryer's Delight, across from police station. Supplies Moro, Cigala and Eagle for sure, plus many others.

i love egg mcmuffins. but the starbucks pepper bacon breakfast sandwich has it pwned, i'm afraid.

plasticky orange cheese SO has a place in the canon of good food.

(This Starbucks sandwich you speak of: really? They make breakfast sandwiches there? And they're good? Wow).

Also, damn: Fryer's Delight mmmmm.

Do yourself a massive favour and arrange to have leftover chips from the FD on hand because they make the best home fries base in the whole world.

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they are good. unlike the mcmuffin, sbux serves its sandwich piping hot.

Yeah, like I can order fish and chips and leave with some left over.

yeah i had no idea starbucks did breakfast sandwiches either, that isnt normal is it? i thought the only food you can buy from this is typically on display in the counter.

I don't go to Starbucks, hate the coffee. In UK this breakfast sandwich must not be around otherwise the britishers would be OMG BACONS.

The large chips is the size of a man's head. You should be able to control y'self.

Gotta love the Fryer's Delight, though. I don't think am imagining there are always at least two black cabs parked outside. The other day I went over there and got just a piece of fried fish, then made about four filet-o-fish facsimiles and SNARFED them in about five minutes.

ah shit

http://savethebreakfastsandwich.com/

xpost I love it. My friend's godfather owns the place--when my Glasgow-born grandfather came to London we took he and my grandmother there, and asked my friend to see if she could get my grandparents 'special treatment'. The owner guy was totally nice, but he was also like: 'It's a chip shop. What am I gonna do?'. He did offer a very special personal welcome to my grandparents when we walked in.

Serving sandwiches got in the way of employees' “ability to make the perfect shot of espresso.”

Serving sandwiches starbucks' lousy coffee got in the way of employees' “ability to make the perfect shot of espresso.”

Probably some ridiculous 2000 per cent markup not possible on ye olde breakfast sanger, just guessin'.

sausage eggmcmuffin ftw although my puckering arteries tell me no.

"Can you say 'Egg McMuffin'?" "Egga Muffin."

I was going to post this! Rodney Allen Rippey forever.

get bent off the mark.

i love egg mcmuffins.
they are totally awesome, but i hate mcdonalds for not serving them after 11 am.
2 for $3!!! with hash browns!! and OJ!!!

Sad there's a missed opportunity for an ironic death... like high cholesterol or being crushed by a falling ton of frozen McMuffins.

Sorry to get all Shakey Mo but it was a bit of a laff when the dude who invented the 'I'm Loving It' ad campaign topped himself.

Also Hungry Jacks (Burger King) has just introduced a breakfast range and sells Egg Muffins (no 'Mc' obvs) that taste EXACTLY the fucking same. What's this world coming to?

ian otm.

ha wasn't there a thread with some tiny AP story that mcd's was considering serving breakfast 24/7?? iirc ilx flipped out like jesus had proclaimed every day blowjob day or something

that would be the greatest ever.