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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.

Perhaps it’s just me, but I can’t help but to feel that this officer was looking for someone to toss into the clinker:

UNION CITY, Ga. - A McDonald’s employee spent a night in jail and is facing criminal charges because a police officer’s burger was too salty, so salty that he says it made him sick.

Kendra Bull was arrested Friday, charged with misdemeanor reckless conduct and freed on $1,000 bail.

Bull, 20, said she accidentally spilled salt on hamburger meat and told her supervisor and a co-worker, who “tried to thump the salt off.”

On her break, she ate a burger made with the salty meat. “It didn’t make me sick,” Bull told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

But then Police Officer Wendell Adams got a burger made with the oversalted meat, and he returned a short time later and told the manager it made him sick.

Bull admitted spilling salt on the meat, and Adams took her outside and questioned her, she said.

“If it was too salty, why did (Adams) not take one bite and throw it away?” said Bull, who has worked at the restaurant for five months. She said she didn’t know a police officer got one of the salty burgers because she couldn’t see the drive-through window from her work area.

Police sent samples of the burger to the state crime lab for tests.

City public information officer George Louth said Bull was charged because she served the burger “without regards to the well-being of anyone who might consume it.”

(Source)

News flash, stuff like this happens all the time. The cooks in restaurants do this all the time, something goes wrong in the process and they attempt to salvage it instead of tossing it out. I can’t say I blame them either. But really, if the burger was too salty would you have kept eating it or would you have brought a complaint to the management’s attention immediately? This is McDonald’s after all.