History Lesson
The process of ordering an Egg McMuffin along with a Double Cheese burger and inserting the Canadian Bacon and Egg from the McMuffin into the Double Cheese burger has become a "cult following" in San Francisco. Given that each of these sandwiches exist on different menus (breakfast and lunch), one has to be at McDonald's at just the right time to be able to order it; and the cult following in SF has aptly named it the Mc10:35.
11:00am
The McDonald's by my work switches to the lunch menu at 11am. We arrived at McDonald's around 10:59am, and got to the counter just as one of the employees was flipping the signs from breakfast to the lunch menus. The employees at the cash registers were generally confused by our orders from both the breakfast and the lunch menus (is it past 11? are we serving lunch already?). Robin, Sean, and I all received our orders and we headed back to the lunchroom at work to begin the assembly process.
Assembly
Most pictures observed on "the internets" do not include the muffin from the McMuffin. Not wanting to waste food (or consume it separate) we inserted the whole McMuffin directly into the middle of the burger, conforming to the 'Bun-meat-bun-meat-...-bun' standard. Also, we made a slight variation of it, as we ordered bacon instead of the Canadian Bacon.
Conclusion
The sandwich is excellent. Based on taste alone it surpasses all standard McDonald's menu items and rivals the McGB (to be covered later in this blog). The $5+ price tag is a bit much to pay compared to other self-assembly sandwiches, but it has the novelty factor which makes it unique.
