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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Culinary or Coronary, it’s all good.
Still, he set a huge food cultural wheel in motion. RIP.
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