In the same sense that the OP’s sandwich is nothing like an Egg McMuffin, correct.
The defining characteristic of eggs Benedict is the hollandaise sauce. Totally different from a meat, egg and cheese breakfast sandwich. “Plastic” cheese is an imitation of real cheese, not a substitute for hollandaise sauce.
So, if I take a fluffy white bun with sesame seeds, fry a patty of ground round, add a slice of cheddar cheese, a piece of lettuce, and some ketchup and mustard and you have what most people would call a “cheeseburger.”
But if I take a ciabatta bun (more dense), and grill a bison patty, add some smoked Gouda, a slice of avocado, some Sriracha and Mayo… and you are telling me that this is no longer a “cheeseburger?”
Not a single ingredient the same… but similar. Similar enough to be considered a variation of the first.
All that said, I’ll probably give the OP’s version a try. There are a couple of places I can get crumpets here, and I just happen to have a bunch of freshly grated Parmesan.
Nope. Completely unlike, and not a variation of, a McDonald’s cheeseburger.
Bun, meat, cheese, condiments.
Bun, meat, cheese, condiments.
Bun, meat, cheese, condiments.
Yup… all completely different.
I feel like I’m arguing with a wall.
Lest I be shamefully misunderstood, let it be known that I was in no way – no way! – suggesting that an Egg McMuffin was in any way anything even remotely resembling eggs Benedict! Hence my preface that they had “loosely speaking, ingredients from the same universe”! I was just suggesting that McD’s looked at eggs Benedict and came up with a breakfast sandwich junk-food variant influenced by that recipe.
But I’m not snooty about this stuff. It may be light-years from eggs Benedict, but a McMuffin (bacon and egg in particular, IMHO) with one of the times that McD’s produces good coffee (and they often do) is not a bad breakfast*.
*ETA: As opposed to the crap they produce the rest of the day, which really is putrid!
for a truly decadent yum, I suggest adding a bit of lettuce (iceburg is my preference) on a toasted bagel. mayo too if you really want a decadently fat sandwich
Ick! Mayo is decadent? Not even close. And iceberg lettuce? You must be joking! It doesn’t even taste like anything.
mayo is decadent on a sandwich such as this, all that extra fat! and the iceburg lettuce is optional, could be any lettuce you prefer, the main point of the lettuce is to add a non-fat, non-savory flavor and texture element that doesn’t compete so much as compliments the egg and bacon or whatever meat you decide to use. That is why iceburg lettuce is good for this, it isn’t as strongly a flavored leaf and has a better crunch than say Greenleaf lettuce. Unless you are one of those who are more sensitive to the bitter undertone of green vegetables, then I can easily understand how that would be unappealing.
Drop the bacon, scramble some smoked salmon (or even better, trout) in with that egg, and add just a touch of lemon zest rather than parmesan.
And a little bit of arugula (rocket for the Brits).
That’s my brother’s favourite, though without the crumpets.
I completely agree with everything you have said and I want to know where in the US one can buy crumpets. I see you are in Indiana and I am in Texas but still…where to get crumpets? I want to see how like/unlike they are to English muffins. And I want that smoked gouda bison burger NOW.
That sounds rather nice.
A lot of what we call muffins are called seed cakes in the UK and in Australia. They just bake it in a cake form instead of a muffin form. It’s similar to banana bread or pumpkin bread.
I do agree there is a difference between muffins (and seed cake) and cake. The batter tends to be denser and more buttery in a muffin.
A lot of different names for similar or the same items is just due to regionalism. Just keep it tasty no matter what you call it.
I love a nice bit of crumpet.