Question : aw snap! WTF am I going to have for dinner tonight?
Answer : SWEET MERCIFUL CRAP! McDonald's All Day Breakfast just started!
... and then the voices!
Me : all day McD's breakfast! YAY!
Low-key Me : ordered at the self service kiosk so I don't have to deal with explaining my order to a random human being (zoom in on the receipt ...)
Orthorexic Me : Ya know ... Those are grain fed factory farmed eggs ; that's grain fed factory farmed pork ; there's some sugar in the sausage mix ; do you trust that each of these round eggs is an actual whole egg from the shell and not that liquid egg goop they make other breakfast eggs with? ; do you trust that the "butter" is actually butter and not some kind of bullshit industrial seed oil toxic disaster? ; Oh god what if those "eggs" are some kind of brand new abomination?
Rational Me : I acknowledge that I can't unknow what I know, but shut the fuck up Orthorexic Me! An occasional McBreakfast isn't gonna fuck up my shit!
Accountable Me : of course, I also had my usual big fucking pile of vegetables
The Real Me : <in a DeNiroesque mobster accent> Hey! I'm all Inside Out in here!
Now off to eat before shit gets cold!
update ...
ok, check out the eggs ... looks consistent with an actual egg from the shell ; clear delineation between the "yolk" and the "white" areas ; no overall yellow or marbled consistency.
So either ... it's an actual egg from the shell, or else McDonald's has created some next generation frankenfood that simulates the characteristics of an actual egg.
I'm gonna use Occam's Razor and go with the assumption that it's an actual egg.
Suck it, Orthorexic Me!
update 2 ...
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ok, check out the eggs ... looks consistent with an actual egg from the shell ; clear delineation between the "yolk" and the "white" areas ; no overall yellow or marbled consistency.
So either ... it's an actual egg from the shell, or else McDonald's has created some next generation frankenfood that simulates the characteristics of an actual egg.
I'm gonna use Occam's Razor and go with the assumption that it's an actual egg.
Suck it, Orthorexic Me!
update 2 ...
A&W is also serving all-day breakfast, and they also have locations open 24 hours!
This is the only other fast-food chain I know of that cracks real eggs, and does not use either pre-formed egg patty things or boxed egg slurries.
So far so good. However, to my disappointment, I discovered that for their Sausage and Egger (my goto breakfast thingy of choice), they use some real crap ...
- Margarine (Canola oil, water, modified palm and palm kernel oils, salt, vegetable monoglycerides, soya lecithin, sodium benzoate, citric acid, natural flavour, colour, vitamin A palmitate, vitamin D3)
- Canola Pan Coating (canola oil, soy lecithin, natural flavour)
Most disappointing.
So, McDonald's breakfast >>>>>>>>>> A&W breakfast.
For reference, here's a link to McDonald's' nutrition info, and my breakfast of choice is the Sausage and Egg McMuffin. Pro Tip: only the "Egg McMuffin" family uses a real cracked egg ... all the other breakfast items (most of which aren't available all-day) use some mystery egg patty or slurry-in-a-box.
'nuff said.
