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The Perfect Sandwich
290 calories of life-nourishing goodness. A mere 17 percent of our daily fat intake, the McDonald’s Egg McMuffin is a culinary ode to joy. It is performance art when you eat it.
As someone who played a lot of baseball, I liken the first bite to feeling one with the bat when the baseball lands squarely on the barrel. You realize that your role in that soaring baseball was really just being the perfect fulcrum, and when you first bite into the crispy Egg McMuffin, you appreciate that its perfection is not complete without the chewing movements of your jaws.
I marvel that no one has yet made a simple work of art similar to the one Andy Warhol did in honor of Marilyn Monroe and the Campbell’s soup can. Where is our wall of McMuffins?
The naive will say that eggs are bad for you, and that is why they never venture down the McMuffin path from time to time. Others will tell you about the excess salt and carbs in our little friend: 28 and 31 percent, friends.
While there is a bit more salt in this perfectly-formed circle of goodness, which on some days feels more like a little hug wrapped up in the pleasant yellow paper than there would be if you made it at home; at home, you wouldn’t get the joy of feeling how precisely the breakfast sandwich fits in your hand when…
