Big Egg McMac (with Sausage!) – Minneapolis, MN

As many of you know, HotGirlsBrother and I love to try horrific food challenges and weird combinations of food. We’ve done the Big MacChicken, The KFCDoubleDown, and something else that I can’t recall right now. This weekend, we were on a mission to do what is called the Mc10:35. If you’re too lazy to click on the link, I’ll explain it: It’s an Egg McMuffin (with Canadian Bacon) and a McDouble combined into one glorious sandwich. It’s called the Mc10:35 because you have to order the breakfast sammich at 10:29 when they stop serving breakfast, and then order a McDouble when they change the signs to lunch at 10:30. The only time you can eat this is at 10:35 during the week (11:05 on weekends).

Everything about this challenge turned into an epic fail. A tasty epic fail, but an epic fail, nonetheless.

Because both of us were so excited and neither of us think well when we are so keenly focused on ridiculous food, neither of us actually looked up the thing to determine how it was built before meeting at McDonald’s. We got it confused with half a dozen other horrific food sandwiches, mainly the holy grail of McDonald’s sammiches in Japan: The Mega Tomago Big Mac. (Is it wrong to look for airline fares to Japan to eat a sandwich with circle-egg and three beef patties with special sauce?? I say no.) We are pretty sure this was actually the meal we were trying to create, but got confused with all the others. We would have failed on this one too, since the Mega Tomago has bacon on it! Aggghhhh!!!

I got to McDonald’s close to the breakfast-lunch changeover, so HotGirlsBrother ordered the breakfast part. However, he ordered Egg McMuffins instead of Sausage (or Canadian Bacon) McMuffins. We realized this about 10:29 and I ran up to order the proper sandwiches, easy mistake and no problem to correct.

Immediately after I order my two Sausage McMuffins, they changed the signs and I asked the counter girl if I could throw on a couple Big Macs as well, she seemed weirded out by it, but the manager gave her the nod and she let me do it. Awesome. After a couple of minutes (apparently the lunch change-over takes longer than I expected), I returned with a tray full of food. We anxiously unwrapped the sandwiches and I realized I still got the wrong breakfast sandwiches. I didn’t order Sausage and Egg McMuffins, I only ordered Sausage McMuffins (now I’m missing the egg). And on top of that, one of them wasn’t even sausage, it was Canadian Bacon!!!

Then to make things worse, we tried to figure out what we did wrong with the ordering by fully utilizing our smart phones. We discovered we wouldn’t have been right on either account, even if we had gotten the sandwiches we ordered. Next time, we’ll do our research. We were supposed to have done the McDouble, instead of the Big Mac and then we should have actually ordered the correct breakfast sandwich as well.

We weren’t going to let this deter us. Even though I had planned on doubling up on the egg and the sausage, I still was going to utilize as much of these sandwiches as possible. Technically, WE added the sausage patties to our burger, so that was all us – none of the other monstrosity sandwiches utilize the sausage, but we both love it. So while inspired by the Mega Tomago Big Mac and also the Mc10:35, our creation was neither – yet a hybrid of the two. We failed technically, but in actuality we were both winners! We put everything on the buns (discarding 3 out of the 4 half-muffins, cause that’s just too much bread) and HotGirlsBrother officially named it the Big Egg McMac, since you have to give something like this an actual name. And since we both love breakfast sausage, we added that to the name as well - The Big Egg McMac (with Sausage!). The thing is enormous, as shown in the photo (twss).


However, with the proper pressure and squishing, it will fit in your mouth (twss).

Both of us were really surprised at how juicy and flavorful the thing is. That’s kind of what we’ve found with some of these horrific-sounding sandwich combos: they’re much better and tastier with a combo of meat on them. Don’t be scared. The only thing HotGirlsBrother would have changed about his sandwich is he would have swapped out the bottom Big Mac bun with the Egg McMuffin piece, so it held up better. The structural integrity (yes, HotGirlsBrother IS an architect, thank you) of the lower bun wasn’t up to snuff to handle the awesomeness of the remainder of the sandwich’s vector mechanics. Plus, better meat traction – which is important. Next time.

I completed the meal by horrifying HotGirlsBrother when I shoveled two American-cheese covered McMuffin pieces into my mouth like a tasty cheese sandwich. I feel bad letting things like that go to waste, simply in the name of food challenges. Hey, I like to eat – sue me.

Overall, this sandwich was a success, and the best part is now we’re planning all kinds of inter-restaurant combinations of food. We started with the combo restaurants like KFC and Taco Bell (Chalupa Potato Bowl anyone?) and A&W and Long John Silvers (Clam Float and Chili Cheese Fish anyone?) and then we moved on to completely separate restaurant combos: Culvers and McDonald’s. I’ve already begun devising a combination of a tenderloin, a butterburger, a Big Mac, and a Sausage McMuffin with Egg: The Big Egg McButterloin. (also my new porn name…)