McDonald's Fu#@!*g Breakfast

As has happened in the past, The Fat is blessed to have friends that embrace his enthusiasm for experiencing all he can in the world of delicious food.  In this case, the team effort came from a work colleague who knows how to have a good time, and when to cut loose for stuffing the face.  Thanks, Sam.

The Ultimate McDonald's F$@!%ng Breakfast

I'm sure that when McDonald's restaurants announced that they were doing an All-Day breakfast menu, there were plenty of people who thought, "well, that's a nice change. Maybe I'll take advantage of that one day?"  Fat Mike, on the other hand, saw this as an opportunity to take his McDonald's experience one step further.  Thankfully, The Fat was not left to tackle this adventure alone.  What is the intention, you ask?  To take the best of both menus and put them together to create an epic eating experience and elevate McDonald's to the next level.

To the left, you have The Fat Mike order: a traditional Quarter Pounder with Cheese, Sausage Egg McMuffin, and a Hash Brown. Below, Sam's contribution: An order of Hotcakes with a Premium Buttermilk Crispy Chicken patty.  At this point, it should be noted that the all-day breakfast menu only has a limited number of items available.  The intention was to use McGriddles for the Chicken Sandwich, but that item is ONLY available during regular breakfast hours.  See here or a list of items typically available depending on location.

Obviously, the intention is to marry the two menu items together in the best way possible to create a cohesive and delicious sandwich. NOT just combine every single ingredient.  In the case of the quarter pounder, the English Muffin was cast aside for the sesame seed bun. In addition, I opted to leave off the hash brown to be added later after diving into the initial burger, egg, sausage combo. Sam opted to leave the typical veggie fixin's off of her Chicken Hotcake Sandwich and obviously chose the buttermilk execution of the chicken options.  However, the decision was made to add syrup to the Chicken Sandwich to create a more "chicken and waffles-like" feel.  These are individual choices on the part of the eater and are not to be criticized.

It is incredibly difficult to describe how epic this eat was, and how perfectly this execution went down, but I'll try anyway.

There were no size disparities or need to augment any ingredients in order to create these two Franken-Sandwiches.  All ingredients were fresh and hot.  Admittedly, there was a much longer wait time for the hotcakes, but they were cooked to perfection nonetheless.  Sure, the waste is a side effect of the crossover, but as you can see from the pictures there was plenty of reason to look forward to diving into these bad boys.  Although I was able to taste both sandwiches, we'll open with my QP breakfast because it was my intended brainchild for the visit. 

The first bite was exactly as I had envisioned.  What surprised me the most was the great division that the egg provided between the dressed burger patty, and the bit of spice from the sausage.  The onions, cheese and pickles added and omelette-like feel to the whole sandwich, and that perfectly firm egg that's expected from the McDonald's breakfast blended beautifully into the experience. Damn, it was good. The ONLY way that this could get better was to finally throw in the hash brown.  Admittedly, the sandwich can stand alone without it if you don't feel like throwing down another $1.50, but I had already decided to test it out. 

 The greasy, salty and mushy element succeeded in making the sandwich a little tastier and more gluttonous.  The difference between the first bit sans hash brown was simply the guilt.  Nowadays, putting an egg on a burger isn't that big a deal.  If anything, it's been overdone to the point of becoming cliche.  However, when done at McDonald's it's hard to overlook the quality of the ingredients that you're eating.  I don't typically subscribe to the "guilt" of eating fast foods, but once the hash brown found it's way onto the Franken-Sandwich I tasted that things may have gone a little too far.  In addition, you can see that the stack was a bit of an undertaking.  For the average eater, that might have seemed daunting, but the Fat had no trouble.  That being said, I sat back in my chair and savored every bite until the sandwich was nothing but a memory.  Are there better $12 burgers in NYC? Of course there are.  But I know there are a lot of legitimate McDonald's fans out there, and if you're one of those folks wander in and give this a try.  It's worth it.

I know what you're wondering: How was the Hotcake Chicken Sandwich? It was good.  Was it a revelation? Unfortunately not.  I think that there was room for negotiation in terms of how the "sandwich" was constructed, but the whole thing came together as a typical "chicken and waffles" style dish. Reflecting afterward, perhaps the McMuffin portion of my sandwich could've provided a stronger vessel for the whole thing.  In THAT case, the stack would've been: Mcmuffin/ pankcake/ syrup/ chicken/ McMuffin. However, this would've required trimming the pancake slightly and possible cheese residue left over from the McMuffin sandwich from which it was lifted.  That would've effected the overall cleanliness of the eat, and was an afterthought for good reason.  All of these combined thoughts and reflections made it obvious that the ideal combination for the chicken sandwich would be the McGriddles, but that requires deliberate timing and intention.  The sandwich combos that are noted above can be obtained at ANY time of day if the mood strikes.  That offers substantial advantage when contemplating the crave.  Keep this in the front of  your minds, folks.  You don't just have to be in the mood for Mickey D's breakfast when you walk into a franchise in the middle of the day.  This new menu option opens up a wealth of opportunity for McDonald's loyalists to get adventurous and see what wondrous combinations are out there to be made.