I agree with that. Who has perfect taste memory?
What is “unhealthy” about fat, calories, and sodium? All 3, in fact, are required for survival.
Sausage McMuffin w/cheese are pretty tasty, though a lot of that depends on whether the particular restaurant is simply phoning it in or not. I make them at home now and then and they are fantastic compared to the restaurant versions. A well run franchise can get kind of close if they are fresh.
One, an English muffin isn’t in my mind, intended to simply be a piece of limp bread with a lot of holes in it. They need to be well toasted, nay unto “almost burnt” for lack of a better term. A little crispy. This might be tough to maintain sitting under a heat lamp. I cut ‘em some slack there.
Butter is also part of the recipe, or used to be anyway. That’s what all those nooks and crannies are for. Overcooked egg, tasteless cheese, dry “raw” muffin, flavorless sausage, etc. It’s a revelation to discover how such a basic, simple sandwich can be improved greatly by good quality ingredients and careful prep.
Pepperidge Farm remembers.
(be sure to tip the Veal and try your waitress)
I don’t claim perfection, but I know Pizza has declined noticeably. It isn’t necessarily a complicated food. Frozen pizzas, oddly enough, have in some ways improved quite a bit.
Somebody once wrote a cook book that revolves around ratios of ingredients. Good (or at least acceptable) pizza to my memory bank revolves around a certain amount of cheese to sauce to crust ratio. I’ve no doubt what buggered it all up was the increasing costs of ingredients. I don’t require “extra” cheese or “extra” sauce, assuming adequate amounts are installed in the first place.
So is water, but people drown all the time.
But I’m with you on home made sausage, egg and cheese sandwiches. Someone once gave me a toaster that grilled a sausage patty and poached an egg while toasting the muffin. I found that extremely thin sausage patties still delivered the flavor experience I liked.
Sam The Cooking Guy recently made this variation with pastrami, ricotta scrambled eggs, and french fried onions that looks great:
I have one of these little guys and other than finding a Canadian bacon slice the right size, my home-made McMuffin’s are perfect and you can toast the muffin as long as you want!
Long John Silver’s. We only have one in Little Rock and it’s located on University Drive just a short distance south of the University of Arkansas Little Rock so I don’t go to it very often. I went to LJS a few weeks back and the battered fish & shrimp tastes the same way I remembered. It was so awesomely bad for me that it’s a good thing I don’t get there more than once every few years.
My grandparents claimed that Arby’s roast beef sandwiches were never the same after the 1972-73 meat crisis.
I’m a little surprised that a) White Castle burgers haven’t changed and b) the chain still exists. Because the fare has always been controversial.
Generally speaking, while processed food companies like to tout their original recipe, they routinely tweak them:
Sure, but that doesn’t make water unhealthy per se.I think the constant drum banging, repetition over and over has had a detrimental effect. There isn’t anything “unhealthy” about an egg sandwich, and it’s just silly.
“Colonel” Sanders of KFC said their gravy was turned into “sludge” after they changed the recipe, presumably after he retired, or something.
Wow! I didn’t even know I needed that. Thanks, have to check this out.
Sanders sold his 600 restaurant franchise in the mid 1960s, which quickly figured out that its value was in the brand rather than the food (which was difficult to mass produce). The Colonel was appointed brand ambassador and continued to criticize the corporation’s decisions in his habitually salty language. He traveled 200,000 miles per year, making promotional appearances until he died at age 90. You can’t fire your mascot. Interesting guy.
I remember the jokes- he kicked the bucket.
I would note in the review section, users suggest the muffins need to be toasted first, to achieve the crispy, crackly goodness that many like. It is an interesting device though and at least isn’t expensive.
I appreciate I am the common theme and so it’s likely on me, but no one will ever convince me ALL fast food has not gotten worse over the course of my 4 odd decades on this floating rock.
Except A&W, if you can find one. That building is a time machine to the 50’s so if you go in warn someone about what Trump will do in 60 years. And now that I think about it perhaps White Castle also is as good or as awful (both simultaneously!) as it has always been.
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I dunno. A McDonalds cheeseburger still tastes and smells like the McDonalds cheeseburger I remember as a child. I would say overall fast food has gotten a lot better with stuff like Five Guys or Chipotle or Jersey Mike’s. (Some of those might technically be “fast casual”, but it’s all the same to me). There’s a lot more choices out there. The only chain I feel has definitely gone downhill is Arby’s. Everyone else is just as mediocre as they’ve always been, though the flavor of mediocrity may have shifted.
I treat/punish myself to a Jack in the Box ultimate cheeseburger once or twice a year. It seems to remain the same gooey calorie bomb it has been since the 90s.
“Cheese cheese meat meat cheese and that’s it, baby don’t you know it’s hot and juicy…”
Yes! about A&W. The small town where I taught still has one that includes dine-in or eat in your car. Either way, if you order the root beer that they make on premises, it’ll get delivered in a frosty mug with a nice head. Even if the taste is different (I think it’s close enough), the experience is the same as it always was.
We have an A&W unchanged from at least the 80s. It’s kind of fun.
I used to work at A & W in the 80s… Never ate there again …