General / Off-Topic The First Annual Christmas Debate 2017 Edition

[Alien]

Does Santa Exist? I'm kidding that's not the debate because OF COURSE SANTA EXISTS

Nope, the debate I'm proposing and the question I'm asking is this ....

Eggs Benedict Or A McDonald's Bacon And Egg McMuffin?

I recently tried Eggs Benedict, something I've wanted to try for many years. I looked up a recipe, bought muffins*, eggs, bacon and a jar of expensive Hollandaise sauce (because why make it if you can buy a jar of it?). I poached an egg. Failed. Fried an egg. Cooked some bacon on my George Foreman grill. Halved and toasted a muffin. Put the bacon on the muffin, put the fried egg on the bacon. Put a dollop of Hollandaise on the egg. Got a knife and fork (cause you don't eat Eggs Benedict with your hands) and ate it.

Then I asked myself, just what is all the fuss about? It's just a bacon and egg McMuffin.

So ... I ask you ... time to choose, Eggs Benedict? or a McD's Bacon & Egg McMuffin?

(and *= For you 'Muricans we are talking about what you'd call an English Breakfast Muffin, not the cupcake variety).

EDIT: As polls are disabled, just post your choice.

 

[GreyAreaUK]

Neither: I'll take a straight bacon & egg butty every time.

 

[Winterwalker]

Benedict!

Not only because that's my name (nearly, actually a Benjamin) but because McDonalds .. are fascists man! ;p

Personally I like to skip breakfast and go directly to the sprouts but if you're having trouble poaching an hegg, a drop of vinegar in the water is one trick, stir the water, and drop the egg into the vortex is another. Still one more is to put the egg in some kind of plastic bag to poach it .. so you don't end up with white eggy bits all over your pan.?

 

[verminstar]

Neither: I'll take a straight bacon & egg butty every time.

Man after me own heart...using cholestrol to get it too. Ill take that bacon egg butty and throw a sausage in there and some HP brown sauce and now we have a heart attack on a plate.

I feel sorry fer muricans...I actually feel sorry fer anyone who doesnt have HP brown sauce.

The micky dee option does it fer me every time...but mostly cos the girl with the mic is damned hot and we had a thing last year...we chatting again which does wonders fer my ego cos shes half my age. Cant beat experience...or grey hairs ^

 

[GreyAreaUK]

Man after me own heart...using cholestrol to get it too. Ill take that bacon egg butty and throw a sausage in there and some HP brown sauce and now we have a heart attack on a plate.

"If you don't start sweating after the first one, the second one's free".

 

[verminstar]

"If you don't start sweating after the first one, the second one's free".

Sweating when its like minus 5 windchill...love yer style...ye would love an ulster fry...sausages, fried soda bread, fried potatoe bread, black pudding, fried mushrooms, fried eggs, fried bacon...in fact the only thing not fried is the pot of tea.

All that grease...keeps the joints lubricated in me old age ^

 

[Winterwalker]

Sweating when its like minus 5 windchill...love yer style...ye would love an ulster fry...sausages, fried soda bread, fried potatoe bread, black pudding, fried mushrooms, fried eggs, fried bacon...in fact the only thing not fried is the pot of tea.

All that grease...keeps the joints lubricated in me old age ^

Ah now you're talking .. my personal record is three breakfasts, on a single day. Not all at once but - as student on the schwally in Nottingham - breakfast for breakfast, breakfast for luncheon and breakfast for tea. Then probably a kebab. How I miss all-day drinking (not).

 

[MarktJones]

It's Father Christmas not Santa round here, if you don't mind.

Edit: Obviously this is the ridiculous hill I am willing to die on.

 

[JessicaSonnet]

Is it bad that I had to google what a "Eggs Benedict" was ?!

And my answer would be neither. Id go for the Maccy D's sausage and Egg mcmuffin with a hashbrown however.

 

[Alec Turner]

Much as I hate to admit it, I always feel slightly sick after a benedict, too much sauce, so I'm gonna have to go with the McMuffin. Great hangover food and good god could I do with one right now.

 

[Arry]

Does Santa Exist? I'm kidding that's not the debate because OF COURSE SANTA EXISTS

Nope, the debate I'm proposing and the question I'm asking is this ....

Eggs Benedict Or A McDonald's Bacon And Egg McMuffin?

I recently tried Eggs Benedict, something I've wanted to try for many years. I looked up a recipe, bought muffins*, eggs, bacon and a jar of expensive Hollandaise sauce (because why make it if you can buy a jar of it?). I poached an egg. Failed. Fried an egg. Cooked some bacon on my George Foreman grill. Halved and toasted a muffin. Put the bacon on the muffin, put the fried egg on the bacon. Put a dollop of Hollandaise on the egg. Got a knife and fork (cause you don't eat Eggs Benedict with your hands) and ate it.

Then I asked myself, just what is all the fuss about? It's just a bacon and egg McMuffin.

So ... I ask you ... time to choose, Eggs Benedict? or a McD's Bacon & Egg McMuffin?

(and *= For you 'Muricans we are talking about what you'd call an English Breakfast Muffin, not the cupcake variety).

EDIT: As polls are disabled, just post your choice.

You made a shoddy attempt to make Eggs Benedict and then wondered why it came out like a McMuffin. It came out that way, because that is what you ended up making.

To compare Eggs Benedict to something thrown together by a spotty faced teenager on less than minimum wage; is like comparing a French made croissant to a dog turd. Take a couple of hours and find a restaurant you can get the real thing. Then sit down, take your time and savour the moment.

If the world is now comparing anything culinary with the processed rubbish from their local McDonalds; then it is time to start mass producing suicide booths.

 

[Roybe]

Can we even compare breakfast...I mean seriously, we can't even define bacon as the same thing:

 

[Roybe]

You made a shoddy attempt to make Eggs Benedict and then wondered why it came out like a McMuffin. It came out that way, because that is what you ended up making.

To compare Eggs Benedict to something thrown together by a spotty faced teenager on less than minimum wage; is like comparing a French made croissant to a dog turd. Take a couple of hours and find a restaurant you can get the real thing. Then sit down, take your time and savour the moment.

If the world is now comparing anything culinary with the processed rubbish from their local McDonalds; then it is time to start mass producing suicide booths.

Soylent Green is coming.

 

[Alien]

You made a shoddy attempt to make Eggs Benedict and then wondered why it came out like a McMuffin. It came out that way, because that is what you ended up making.

To compare Eggs Benedict to something thrown together by a spotty faced teenager on less than minimum wage; is like comparing a French made croissant to a dog turd. Take a couple of hours and find a restaurant you can get the real thing. Then sit down, take your time and savour the moment.

If the world is now comparing anything culinary with the processed rubbish from their local McDonalds; then it is time to start mass producing suicide booths.

Yeah, let's examine what I should have done, what I did and what McDonald's does.

Proper Eggs Benedict
Toasted English Breakfast Muffin
Parma Ham (smoked)
Poached egg (poached in a swirling pan of boiling water)
Hollandaise sauce made from ingredients

Here's Gordon Ramsey's recipe for Eggs Benedict

My Attempt At Eggs Benedict
Toasted English Breakfast Muffin
Smoked back bacon, grilled
Fried egg (but I tried to do a poached egg in an egg poaching pan)
A jar of Tesco Finest Hollandaise Sauce

McDonald's Bacon & Egg McMuffin
Toasted English Breakfast Muffin
Bacon (of questionable quality)
Poached egg (from the shape poached in a dish of some description)
McD's Secret Sauce or a sachet of your choosing, I don't know

In Summary
So yeah, absolutely unfair to compare a proper Eggs Benedict to a McDonald's Bacon & McMuffin.
/sarcasm

 

[Jenner]

Neither.

Gimmie a good breakfast burrito any day.

 

[Necronaught]

Eating that fried animal muck no thanks.

Blueberries, bananas and water melon for breakfast everyday.