Mar 27 2008
Inventor of the Egg McMuffin Dies at 89 - ORLY?
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I’m pretty sure you’ve been seeing headlines similar to the one posted above for a couple of days now. Right? Well, in case you hadn’t heard, the inventor of the egg McMuffin passed away on Tuesday.
But can he really be considered the inventor? Are you an “inventor” because you added a dish to a franchise’s menu and slapped a brand name on an already existing dish? If that’s the case, then I hear by create SmezzaPizza. It looks just like a “pepperoni pizza” but it’s not. Why? Because I put a name to it. BUWAHAHAHA!!
So now when I die, the headlines have to read “Inventor of SmezzaPizza” dies at ##”. Isn’t that how it works?
Seriously, how can this guy be the “inventor” when breakfast sandwiches had been around since he was a kid? Hell, the man might have eaten them as a kid as well. Grab a biscuit, throw some egg, sausage (or ham), and cheese on it and you’re good to go. I have family members older than he is that ate those before he “invented” them. In the article that I linked to, two people noted that McDonald’s was already serving these “egg McMuffins” before he could have possibly “invented” them.
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When I heard about the passing of the egg mcmuffin inventor recently, I was actually pretty moved. For a span of about 6 months, I was hitting an egg mcmuffin on the way to work since I had very little time to eat breakfast at home. But then I realized my pants were getting tighter and so I stopped eating out.
I have to agree with you though regarding the “invent” of the egg mcmuffin given that similar sandwiches have been around for a long time.
Cheers!
Chris