Aw, that is sad. 
I love Egg McMuffins; they’re one of the few fast food things I still treat myself to.
I think I’ll go get one tomorrow morning in memory of good Mr. Peterson.
(Hey, it’s as good an excuse as any!)
He fast foodized the breakfast sandwich. He had the idea and McDonalds sold hundreds of millions of the things. Why do you have to be such a dick in a memorial thread?
He was personal friends with Ray Kroc and was granted the right to the McD’s franchise here in the Santa Barbara area. He wanted to come up with an idea for a way for his stores to make money in the morning. He developed the way that they were cooked and presented the idea to Ray. Had he asked for royalties, which he most certainly could have, he would have been a billionaire. He never did because he appreciated his friendship with Kroc and was grateful that he was given the rights to franchise which made him a wealthy man.
Wait. Egg McMuffins are the orgasm? 
:eek:
I’ve never had one. They look disgusting in the ads, and that’s with professional photographers who are experts in making food look good. It’s also covered with that weird orange chemical slime they call “cheese,” which is probably not the English term, but probably some Swahili word meaning “something no sane person would put in his mouth.”
Another fast food big shot is McDead.
“He asked a local blacksmith to make an egg ring to keep the fried egg round and tidy for a hand-held sandwich.”
I have to admit: I never would have imagined that any part of the history of the McDonalds restaurant chain would involve consulting “a local blacksmith.” I can see him now in my mind’s eye, stooped over the blazing hearth, wreathed in the glow of the coals; striking sparks with hammer and tongs as he forges McMuffins from raw ingots.
I wonder where that original egg ring is now, and if it has the power to rule all other McMuffins and in the darkness bind them.
In other food news (in case I missed a thread on it) Popeye’s Fried Chicken founder Al Copeland died Sunday at the age of 64.
The age-old question has been answered: The egg guy came first, but the chicken guy went first.
I would say there’s a wee bit of difference between this and a thread about Heath Ledger for example- I doubt anybody here except possibly you ever heard of the guy until this thread was started. Not really your garden variety memorial thread requiring respect- more like the sort of death Letterman or Leno would announce and then make a (lame) joke about.
Quadgop:
Could be, they seemed interchangeable to me. I just saw “Herb” and “McDonalds” and that came to my mind.
Wrong. No McDonald’s food products use “cheese food” (which contains as little as 51% cheese) or “cheese product” (which contains less than 51% cheese). McDonald’s uses sharp American cheese slices, containing only cheese and emulsifying salts, and no fillers.
Wait. Scratch that, reverse it.
How dare you dirty the name of our noble platypus?!
Jokes, lame or otherwise, aren’t my issue. Ignorantly demeaning the man’s accomplishments are. I think that Egg McMuffins are nasty. I wouldn’t eat one on a bet. That said, what Peterson did was revolutionary in his field.
As usual, a bunch of people swoop in to a McD’s thread with false claims about everything being fake in their food. Like it or not, the Egg McMuffin is probably about as natural as anything you’d whip up at home if you set out to make the same dish. It’s got real eggs, and real cheese. Canadian bacon, as a cured meat, is full of weird chemicals whether you get it from McDonald’s or your local store.
Most things at McDonald’s are more “natural” than common perception would dictate. They’re proof that you can do truly horrendous and unhealthy things with food without resorting to using a bunch of “fake” ingredients. White flour, refined sugars, and deep-fried everything are great ways to keep it real and make it bad for you at the same time. McDonald’s may be a lot of unhealthy and unappetizing things, but they earn that honestly. There’s no need to unduly slap them with accusations of “unnatural”. Most of their stuff didn’t pop out of some chemistry lab.
A lot of it does, though. The chicken nuggets do, the milk shakes do (they don’t even have any milk in them), those horrific “McGriddle” things do. I don’t trust anything they serve to really be “natural” (that goes for most other FF chains too).
Complete BS. McDonald’s milkshakes are made with a powdered mix plus milk. Snopes has even done this one.
The listed ingredients for Chicken McNuggets are: White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, chicken flavor (autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary), sodium phosphates, seasoning (canola oil, mono- and diglycerides, natural extractives of rosemary). Battered and breaded with: water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, food starch-modified, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, whey, corn starch. Prepared in vegetable oil.
I can’t find a single thing there that would be “unnatural,” except maybe “autolyzed yeast extract” because I don’t know what that is.
There are some big scary chemical names, like thiamine mononitrate, but that’s just a B-vitamin. Everything else you’d find in any typical battered fried chicken recipe.
Ingredients of McDonald’s vanilla shake: Whole milk, sucrose (milk sugar), cream, nonfat milk solids, corn syrup solids, mono and diglycerides, guar gum (a thickener made from the guar bean), imitation vanilla flavor, carrageenan (a suspending agent made from carageen), cellulose gum (a thickener), vitamin A palmitate.
While I sympathize with the notion that a memorial thread should be respectful, we’ve wrestled with this before and the consensus of opinion amongst members (and the board rules) is that people should be free to make negative comments. We’re not the family or close friends of the deceased, we’re talking about a celebrity or entertainer, and negative comments about such people are permitted… even in an obituary-type thread.
On t’other hand, insulting other posters is NOT permitted, hajario. Please do not do this again.
I occasionally see ads for egg rings, either individual rings or sets of four. I’ve also seen household hints claiming that one can open both ends of a tuna can, wash it well, and use it to keep the eggs tidy. These hints obviously come from the days when both ends of a food can could be opened with a standard can opener.
I thought Egg McMuffins had sausage on them, not Canadian bacon. Since I really don’t care for English muffins, I don’t eat them.
No, Herb was with BK all right: Where's Herb? - Wikipedia
The Egg McMuffin, with its sorta-poached egg, canadian bacon, cheese and muffin, was my first experience with a breakfast sandwich, and boggled my mind when it was first introduced. A McDonald’s open for breakfast??? WTF!!
But my love of the breakfast sandwich led me to develop my own, using egg, meat, cheese, and muffin too. Of course my egg is truly poached, my meat is summer sausage, and my cheese is 7 year old sharp cheddar. I add vegemite and chipotle sauce too. Maybe sun-dried tomatoes too.
But I salute Mr. Peterson for setting me feet on the path to breakfast glory (weekends only, on work days I have a cup of All Bran).