grodscorp@grods.comIn defence of Herb Peterson
 | Posted by Scott on Friday 28 March 2008, 11:10 pm Categories: Blogosphere, Food Tags: ;;;;, EggAndBaconMcMuffin, HerbPeterson |
The telephone. The internal combustion engine. The bacon-and-egg McMuffin. All great inventions.
Today the inventor of one of these world-changing contributions to human kind passed away.
Herb Peterson, who invented the ubiquitous Egg McMuffin as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald’s restaurants, has died
This sad news has understandably triggered a series of blog posts that honour the memory of the great Herb Peterson, written by fans of the Fine Scottish Restaurant (TM). Regrettably, these posts have attracted derisory comments written by leftist scum who are too elitist to appreciate the elegant simplicity of a muffin, a slice of bacon, a fried egg and a slice of “cheese”. Here is an example of one such comment.
Yeah who else could have thought of putting an egg and a slice of bacon in a roll? It’s fricken genius. Why wasn’t this guy knighted?
How narrow and negative this poor sod’s world view must be. Thank heavens the author of the post that attracted this comment was on hand to slap this nihilist upside the head.
…the fact of the matter is that before 1972 no body did think of doing this and it is on a Muffin not a roll :)
You elitist lefties now if it had some quaint ethnic origin (focarccia anyone?) you lot would be singing it’s praises, and given the gentleman was an American from California he was of course not eligible for a knighthood.(text reproduced vebatim)
Hear, hear. And a lifetime supply of “Peterson” McMuffins to the GrodsReader who can best proof read the final blockquote.
UPDATE (29/3): The nihilist has dared question the author of the Peterson post once more.
Bacon and egg rolls have been around for generations… As for using a muffin, so what, it’s hardly friggin rocket science.
But our McMuffin-lovin’ correspondent again shows the nihilist which way is what.
The distinctive difference is [Nihilist's name] lies in the use of a Teflon ring to shape the egg as it cooks so that it more perfectly fits the muffin, and the addition of cheese.
Pwned!
Friday 28 March 2008, 11:34 pm #Steve D
I love the B&E McMuffins - they’re about the only thing I’ll eat from Maccas. And the ‘cheese’ is the best bit. I can make a bacon and egg muffin at home with fresh bacon and fresh eggs, but it never tastes as good as a bought one (I even tried getting my mum to make it, in case it was the sense of power that made it taste nice. Unfortunately, no. I don’t know what those power-crazed dictators ever saw in it - the ‘cheese’ is much better).
Also, I think that last blockquote is supposed to read: “Please help me. I have lost my Fleshlight.”
Friday 28 March 2008, 11:35 pm #Steve D
Wow. I just re-read my comment and realised how incomprehensible it is. I wonder how that happened…
Friday 28 March 2008, 11:40 pm #THR
Allora, amici, come and get your ‘focarccia anyone’.
Heard in every ‘ethnic’ neighbourhood outside of Mount Mee.
Friday 28 March 2008, 11:47 pm #Zombie Mao
When you claim an egg and bacon roll as a political symbol as a fight against commie scum, you must be a bit odd.
Just getting a tad absurd.
Any way, when it comes to breakfast, I am a fruit and cereal hippie.
Friday 28 March 2008, 11:50 pm #Zombie Mao
oh and a cup or of fair trade East Timor coffee of course.
Friday 28 March 2008, 11:59 pm #THR
Any way, when it comes to breakfast, I am a fruit and cereal hippie.
And this, my Maoist friend, is what causes rifts between the Soviets and the Chinese.
To say nothing of Tim Blair.
Saturday 29 March 2008, 12:07 am #Wah
Who invented the Sausage and Egg McMuffin? I want to fuck them.
Saturday 29 March 2008, 12:13 am #Goobermetrics
I fucking love Macca’s breakfast. In a “this shit is delicious way” not an ironic way.
Saturday 29 March 2008, 12:17 am #Mikey
I used to love them but can’t eat them any more.
Damn you surgery!
(punches guts)
Ow … my liver.
Saturday 29 March 2008, 12:21 am #THR
I fucking love Macca’s breakfast. In a “this shit is delicious way” not an ironic way.
Hey, me and my mate Al-fuckyoussir use them all the time when we’re after civilian targets. Nothing says ‘imperialist dogs’ like a McDonalds breakfast in the back of the head.
Saturday 29 March 2008, 10:46 am #Ant Rogenous
Allora, amici, come and get your ‘focarccia anyone’.
Today’s special at the Mount Mee Paninoteca is focarccia with proskiooto and raditchio. Wash it all down with a bottle of chin otto for that fair dinkum bellissimo feeling, payzano.
Saturday 29 March 2008, 11:31 am #Bridgit Gread
Coming soon… “How the Whopper brought down the Berlin Wall” and “Freddo Frog: the Left’s great nemesis”.
(These are the head-in-arse theories you can conceive if you have nothing better to do with your day…)
Saturday 29 March 2008, 11:38 am #Chuck A. Spear
Fuck me dead. Now I’ve read it all.
BTW, I heard on the grapevine that Pernicious Minds the EP is being recorded.
Saturday 29 March 2008, 12:58 pm #flagg
Good God, I think I feel an attack of the old othographic compulsive disorder coming …
Saturday 29 March 2008, 9:32 pm #John Surname
The man put low quality egg, bacon and “cheese” in a Scottish muffin. He is clearly the equal of Einstein. Your minds are just too small and indoctrinated to truly comprehend the genius inherent in its creation.
Sunday 30 March 2008, 2:23 am #Terry Wright
Guess who?: (; defending it as not just being a bacon n’ egg roll):
The distinctive difference is Mark lies in the use of a Teflon ring to shape the egg as it cooks so that it more perfectly fits the muffin, and the addition of cheese.
Now I actually cook every day and being English I am very familiar with the traditional “fry up” but compared to that a McMuffin is a very low fat option indeed.
Now he’s an Egg McMuffin expert.
Sunday 30 March 2008, 9:06 am #Terry Wright
Ooops, Didn’t read the update.
Sunday 30 March 2008, 3:51 pm #Ant Rogenous
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* The above is a typed message from Baby Rogenous.
Already he makes more sense than his old man.
Sunday 30 March 2008, 3:54 pm #John Surname
“hrf [m[/`[[[[[[[[[[[,/ /DW*”
It’s like he tore out my soul and splattered it on the computer screen.