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Vale Herb Peterson

LOS ANGELES – Herb Peterson, who invented the ubiquitous Egg McMuffin as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald’s restaurants, has died, a Southern California McDonald’s official said Wednesday. He was 89.

Peterson died peacefully Tuesday at his Santa Barbara home, said Monte Fraker, vice president of operations for McDonald’s restaurants in that city.

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‘Partial to eggs Benedict’
Peterson came up with idea for the signature McDonald’s breakfast item in 1972. He “was very partial to eggs Benedict,” Fraker said, and worked on creating something similar.

The egg sandwich consisted of an egg that had been formed in a Teflon circle with the yolk broken, topped with a slice of cheese and grilled Canadian bacon. It was served open-faced on a toasted and buttered English muffin.

The Egg McMuffin made its debut at a restaurant in Santa Barbara that Peterson co-owned with his son, David Peterson.

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Well it seems to me that even if you are not a fan of fast food that there is a lot to like about the elegant simplicity of a Bacon and egg  McMuffin, a most worthwhile addition to our dining lexicon…

Vale Herb Peterson

Cheers Comrades

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8 Comments

  1. Mark L. says:

    Yeah who else could have thought of putting an egg and a slice of bacon in a roll? It’s fricken genius. Why wasn’t this guy knighted?

  2. Iain Hall says:

    Mark the fact of the matter is that before 1972 no body did think of doing this and it is on a Muffin not a roll :)
    You elitist lefties now if it had some quaint ethnic origin (focarccia anyone?) you lot would be singing it’s praises, and given the gentleman was an American from California he was of course not eligible for a knighthood.

  3. Mark L. says:

    Bacon and egg rolls have been around for generations Iain, my dad used to buy them from a stall at Flinders St station just after the war. As for using a muffin, so what, it’s hardly friggin rocket science. You’re just spurting over this because it’s about your restaurant of choice, personally I’ll have a good old fashioned fry up any day, not the chemical rubbery shite McDonald’s put in those buns.

  4. Iain says:

    The distinctive difference is Mark lies in the use of a Teflon ring to shape the egg as it cooks so that it more perfectly fits the muffin, and the addition of cheese.
    Now I actually cook every day and being English I am very familiar with the traditional “fry up” but compared to that a McMuffin is a very low fat option indeed.

  5. Mark L. says:

    Coming soon on Iain Hall – “That marvellous invention the hot apple pie”.

  6. PKD says:

    Now I actually cook every day and being English I am very familiar with the traditional “fry up” but compared to that a McMuffin is a very low fat option indeed.

    You do know that you grill the tomatoes and bacon and fry the eggs with next to no oil Iain???

  7. Iain Hall says:

    A traditional “fry up” is as its name implied all fried, none of this woosie grilling nonsense, it consists of eggs bacon sausage , black pudding, fried potatoes, baked beans and fried bread, and it is traditionally cooked in animal fat rather than whimpy stuff like vegetable oil.

    So if you think that you are having a fry up when you grill some tomatoes and some bacon you are sadly mistaken.

  8. Mark L. says:

    Still, either of those options tastes better to me than a fast-cooked rubbery egg, a bit of cheap bacon and a slice of cheese, all crammed into a dry floury muffin. But it’s a matter of choice I guess. I just don’t think there’s anything clever about McMuffins.

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