Everyone seems to be blogging about breakfast.
Also taking promotional-material-worthy photos of food as well.
I can do the former, but not the latter.
The McSkillet Burrito from McDonald’s has caused me to forgo free coffee and a $1.09 hash brown purchase on Mondays for the $4.14 McSkillet Burrito combo about twice a week. Since this inspires me to leave for work before 10AM in order to get it, I think the net result is positive. No pictures though since the meal is consumed while driving. I could do without the salsa, but it doesn’t bother me enough to specifically ask for one without it. Special ordering food almost always makes me feel like a prick for some reason, although Kei once told me that Matt Barge always special orders his stuff (was it McDonald’s cheeseburgers?) to guarantee their freshness. Some exceptions which I can’t rationalize: requesting easy ice for Coke at Portillo’s, and asking for no beans on the Taco Bell mexican pizza, which occasionally results in the opposite: all beans/no beef due to the shitty intercom system and my poor enunciation). Anyways I wholeheartedly recommend the McSkillet Burrito.
Sometime last week I first saw the slightly creepy/humorous commercial for Burger King’s new Cheesy Bacon BK WRAPPER. Everything sounded and looked good. Eggs, hash browns, bacon (although I think sausage is the superior breakfast meat) and cheese (commercial says cheese sauce, website says melted cheese). I can’t remember when a commercial made me this excited to try something. So Marie went out and picked up four of these yesterday. I ate one pretty quickly and found it to be thoroughly mediocre. Marie opened hers up and it all became clear:
ALL IS LOST
I could partially understand two slivers of bacon placed sideways instead of vertically to match the orientation of the closed tortilla, but two hash browns? Unforgivable. Also the regular slice of cheese. Also the world’s most unappetizing egg. There are still two of these monstrosities sitting in the fridge, I imagine they’ll make their way to the trash in the next day or so. This and that breakfast sandwich awhile back that came on the chicken sandwich bun, Burger King needs to step its game up.
matt barge was a beast, him and paul han at doggie diner after volleyball
god i love mcdonald’s wth, they have 1.09 hashbrowns???? i will go there this monday
its currently $1 +tax at my mcdonalds
i remember a time when they either had 2 for $1 or add another hash brown to a meal for +50 cents, i think it may have been the latter