Today's Culinary(?) URL

[chrishansenhome]

Those of us who have eschewed McDonald's for years now may not think so, but this man created something that our fellow women and men often eat daily. I wonder what his cholesterol level was.

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do you know the McMuffin man, who lives in Drury Lane?

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

given that he was fourscore-and-nine when he turned up his toes, cholesterol doesn't seem to have done much damage. one egg a day isn't all that tragic, I'd suggest.

I do find it amusing that "Canadian bacon" is unknown by that name hereabouts [we call it "back bacon", or sometimes "peameal bacon", since frequently it comes rolled therein.] I'm not sure why even Wikipedia refer to it as "Canadian-style bacon", since we consume what you would call streaky bacon more than back bacon.

Back to the McMuffin Man -- given that his funeral was at All Saints-by-the-Sea, I'm suspicious that there was an Episcopalian connection.

Re: do you know the McMuffin man, who lives in Drury Lane?

[gmjambear]

As you mentioned, who can predict that the person who created the Egg McMuffin living to the age of 89. Then again, I suspect that some of the people who preach about staying healthy and losing weight are the same people who smoke, drink, use illicit drugs and/or unexpectedly develop a disease and don't live past their 40s or 50s. Jim Fixx, who wrote "The Complete Book of Running" but died of a massive heart attack at the age of 52, comes to mind.

Re: do you know the McMuffin man, who lives in Drury Lane?

[trawnapanda.livejournal.com]

precisely

it is said that by jogging you can add 3 or 4 years to your lifespan ... but you spend all that extra time jogging, so what's the point?

[urban-bohemian.livejournal.com]

Culinary or Coronary, it's all good.

Still, he set a huge food cultural wheel in motion. RIP.

[gopower.livejournal.com]

Actually, the Egg McMuffin's not so bad in nutrition terms. Men's Health magazine featured it in its inaugural "Eat This, Not That" feature, noting that a McMuffin was healthier than a bagel and cream cheese.

http://mhtoday.menshealth.com/?cm_mmc=DailyDoseNL-_-2008_03_28-_-MainBlk-_-MH_Today