McDonalds breakfast sandwich

Is it me, or is it that the McDonalds Steak, egg, and cheese Bagel sandwich is simply awesome? Tons of cheese, steak, onions, and a "special sauce" that is simply greasy ...yet, delicious??? I LOVE these things, but try not to do them but a few times/month...Gonna be 40 here in 4 months..but IMO..these are great tasting!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lindsey, we're gonna have to get you out of the fast food mode and into some real food. What Roadfood is all about!

Welcome to the board.

MikeS.

LOL...thanks Mike! Unfortunately, I live in the sticks (Upper Michigan) and have yet to find a truly good Road Food find in the non-fast food catagory! I may have to live vicariously thru the rest of you!!

Hello All,
Lindsey, welcome to Roadfood.
My father, before he died, loved McDonalds's breakfast offerings. I didn't
think much of them, but they were a gift to me since I could share breaking
bread with him at McDonalds.
Have you thought about opening a roadfood place in your area?
Take Care,
Fieldthistle

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Originally posted by lindsey

LOL...thanks Mike! Unfortunately, I live in the sticks (Upper Michigan) and have yet to find a truly good Road Food find in the non-fast food catagory! I may have to live vicariously thru the rest of you!!

No local diners? No Waffle House? OK, I'm stretching it with that one... There's got to be something better the McDs and BK, right?

MikeS.

There are local diners.....non worth mentioning. The only non fast food chains are Red Lobster, Country Kitchen, and Applebees! How sad is that??

Sad, very sad.

The bagel style breakfast sandwiches were taken off the McDee's menus in my general area a year or two ago, along with the double cheesburgers (??). While I thought they were OK and a bit better than the other breakfast fare, most of the customers didn't even know what a bagel was (per past conversation with a McDonald's GM). Per same conversation, a few of the locals also didn't seem to understand why anyone would offer a menu item served on a stale doughnut (that wasn't even sweet)...

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Originally posted by Adjudicator

a few of the locals also didn't seem to understand why anyone would offer a menu item served on a stale doughnut (that wasn't even sweet)...

That's funny!

Lindsey, when I travel and dine in a new restaurant I'm very honest. I mention that this is my first time dining there and what do they recommend? I reply to those that say everything, "I can't eat everything so what is the one thing I should try"?. I find this works better with a "more seasoned" server as young ones seem quite content with a frozen and nuked meal item. When I get an owner, I ask what they eat for breakfast? Sometimes if it is an ethnic person, he'll talk about something they're afraid to put on the menu as being too unusual for the masses. Once in Clarksdale Mississippi I had kibbe for breakfast and I'll bet it was the only kibbe eaten in 250 miles. Up in your neck of the woods you have pasty's and I'll bet some places serve real maple syrup for breakfast. It's a rare diner that can't do potato's and omelets well. Nearby Ishpeming has quite a few great roadfood-type supper clubs and your fish frys will bring tears to a Yooper that moved to our great Southwest.

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Originally posted by desertdog

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Originally posted by Adjudicator

a few of the locals also didn't seem to understand why anyone would offer a menu item served on a stale doughnut (that wasn't even sweet)...

That's funny!

Funny and sad, 'cause that's exactly what a McD's bagel is.

I've gotta say that I did try that steak thing once, several years ago, and it tasted like compressed chemical waste and gristle. Maybe I got a bad one, but I'm not chancing it again.

the steak egg and cheese bagel is the most underated, underappreciated mcdonalds item in history. i go light on the cheese cuz there's not enough steak for 2 slices of cheese. the onions are very key as well as the lemon pepper mayo butter or whatever it is. Only problem is me waking up early enough to get 1. back in the day i'd get it every morning on way to work, hits the spot 8 outta 10 times. sometimes theres not enough steak or they'll be something wrong with it. man the steak is so tasty and greasy. i need 1 of these now, right now.

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Originally posted by lindsey

LOL...thanks Mike! Unfortunately, I live in the sticks (Upper Michigan) and have yet to find a truly good Road Food find in the non-fast food catagory! I may have to live vicariously thru the rest of you!!

Giggling to myself, "sticks". Do you know where Skandia is? We were stationed at K I Sawyer AFB for 8 (count 'em) UP winters, so talk about "sticks". On a goodday, (roads cleared of snow, especially the rock cut into Marquette, it took us almost 45 minutes to get to civilization.

Wasn't there some bar out near Negaunee or Ishpeming, that featured a "birdbath", a huge drink, from which many could embibe? It was a legend, in it's own time.

Been a long time, Upper!

OK, back to topic, I just love those breakfast sandwiches, and by now, the damage has been done to my arteries.

Nice seeing you around.

I will confess that except for coffee I haven't had breakfast at Mickie D's in twenty years. The dollar double c'burger is a once a month thing however.

Morningglory....I live in Negaunee...I kmow Skandia well!! I think the place you speak of was a bar in Ishpeming...can't remember the name of it..It was on the main highway U.S. 41 and was round. I have "heard" of the legend, but never experienced it!! We got a spring storm last week with 4 foot of snow here!! Insane....lol!!

Eatallday...I agree with you..they are Hugely underrated IMO!!! Nice chatting with everyone here!!!!

Hi lindsey,

Is Heath's Hardware still in Skandia, with their greenhouses? Sheesh, that was the only beacon of Spring and the begining of my garden. Lol.

I remember the Holiday Inn in Marquette, because they did deep fried mushrooms that were to die for. They had a nice mayo/horseradish sauce to go with it, and a nice burgundy. Seemed like heaven (still does)!!!!

I don't miss the weather, though, and consider myself lucky to garden all year, here in CA. The "lake effect" snows were almost as bad as the regular weather for that area. I lost 80 + home grown tomato plants, one July to a hard frost. I don't miss that!

I used to work on the psych ward at Marquette General Hospital, LOL!

A lot of water under the bridge.

Hope the snow is gone, soon!

MG

Psych ward experience must come in handy around Roadfood.