At USMA at West Point NY, they serve Eggs Benedict for breakfast but it is instead called Eggs MacArthur.
Because, well, you know.
The Egg McMuffin is a breakfast sandwich served at McDonald’s restaurants: it contains a fried egg, Canadian bacon, and American cheese, served on a toasted and buttered English muffin.
The sandwich was developed by Herb Peterson, a McDonald’s franchisee in California, in the early 1970s, based on the idea of creating a sandwich version of Eggs Benedict. The Egg McMuffin was first officially served at McDonald’s restaurants in 1972, and was the company’s first large-scale foray into breakfast items.
Herb Peterson was a US Marine who served in WWII. The first Egg McMuffin was served in 1972 at the McDonald’s in Goleta CA, near Santa Barbara, at the restaurant that still stands to this very day at 146 S. Fairview Ave.
In 1980 when I was a freshman attending UCSB, the University of California with Sexy Blondes :-), I worked at that McDonald’s for that very same Herb Peterson. And I cooked Egg McMuffins there. Earlier, I cooked my very first Egg McMuffin in 1977, in Hartford CT at the McDonald’s that used to be at 151 Asylum Street. Later in 1977 I cooked Egg McMuffins at the McDonald’s that still stands today at 214 Prospect St, West Hartford CT, and then later in 1979 at the McDonald’s that still stands today at 609 Market St, San Francisco. In my youth through four years I worked at 4 different McDonald’s: 2 in Connecticut and 2 in California.
As noted, one of the ingredients of the Egg McMuffin is Canadian bacon. This cut of meat, sometimes called ‘back bacon’, comes from the lean pork loin along the pig’s back. Prior to being marketed, it is cured and smoked, and is sold ready to eat. It has a flavor closer to ham than to traditional bacon, and is also popular as a pizza topping.
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@Bullitt The Eggs Benedict story is an awesome bit of trivia!
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Cool trivia, @RealityChuck
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