McDonald's adds its first new breakfast sandwich in 5 years

[left-of-center2012]

McDonald's is hoping a big new breakfast sandwich will help bring in more customers.

Triple Breakfast Stacks will hit menus on November 1. They're modified versions of McDonald's popular Egg McMuffin -- they will include two slices of American cheese, two sausage patties, bacon and an egg, The sandwiches are available on a McMuffin, biscuit, or McGriddles cakes.

The new items are designed to help McDonald's solve a problem: Fewer Americans are eating at the fast food chain. A new breakfast could help bring them back.

In a statement on Tuesday, the company said that the items are inspired by customized orders made by McDonald's (MCD) customers.

"People have been hacking our menu for years," said Mike Haracz, manager of culinary innovation. The triple stacks were inspired by those orders, he said. Linda VanGosen, vice president of menu innovation, said that customers have been requesting bigger sandwiches for breakfast.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/24/business/mcdonalds-new-breakfast-sandwich/index.html

[Wounded Bear]

1. People aren't eating there because it is unhealthy crap...

So adding more unhealthy crap is sure to increase sales.

[GoCubsGo]

7. The original Egg McMuffin is actually one of their few healthy breakfast items.

Especially if you get them to leave off the fake cheese. These new ones are a heart attack waiting to happen. They just ooze grease.

[bigtree]

2. the two patties all at once are too much

...and the bacon is overkill, just as it is in any normal breakfast.

It's a stomach-churning as the McGriddle.

[NightWatcher]

3. So they're going to kill the remaining customers with that thing?

Not too smart

[libdem4life]

4. Ronald McDonald found Guilty !!!!!

https://www.google.com/search?q=number+of+obese+americans&rlz=1CASMAI_enUS811&oq=number+of+obese+americans&aqs=chrome..69i57.11302j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

[RockRaven]

5. IMO, the most disgusting substance in North American cuisine is fast-food processed cheese.

But apparently this is not a common opinion. I really, truly, cannot stomach it's taste, texture, or appearance. Gross, gross, gross.

If it weren't for that, and I was on a road trip or for some other reason unable to eat breakfast at home, I guess I'd be willing to try one of these.

[Mosby]

11. mcdonalds uses kraft american cheese.

[flotsam]

19. Except

"American cheese—the kind you get in the individual plastic wrappers—is processed cheese or “cheese food,” meaning it’s not actually real cheese. The next time you’re at the grocery store, take a look at the packed singles and notice how many don’t actually have “cheese” in their name.

In short, Kraft Singles are made with less than 51% actual cheese, so it can’t legally be called "cheese."

However, not all American cheeses are made equal. Classically—before the factory-processed stuff hit the market—American cheese was a blend, often of cheddar and colby, made for easy melting and approachable flavor. The cheese you find at the deli counter is usually made from real cheese

http://mentalfloss.com/article/65003/what-exactly-american-cheese

Land of Lakes is a real American cheese...

[Mosby]

22. I can't stand the stuff

I recently discovered that the qt. Pounder is pretty decent when ordered without those two slices of "cheese".

Did you know that you can get a meatless egg mcmuffin for a buck? You order a sausage mcmuffin, without sausage and then add a round egg.

[MuseRider]

6. Ugh!

Really? We do need more bacon and another pattie of sausage on the egg and cheese and more bread. I do not eat there.

Keep giving the customer what they want McD's and there will no longer be customers...unless you have someone who is thin enough to fit in a car and healthy enough to work because your customers are rapidly getting sick and will soon be none of those things.

Maybe it is my bad mood but this seems just stoopid. Do they not make enough money, is it all about having more than the other guy? Yes, I know. Bad mood, should get off and eat something NOT 1000 calories worth in my first meal of the day. My god, I should have become a cardiologist.

[Iggo]

8. They should have a snappy word for that. How about "Supersize"?

[Totally Tunsie]

9. We know who'll be first in line!

[joshcryer]

10. Not going to lie, I'd eat it. Someone on Reddit got one:

https://www.reddit.com/r/McDonalds/comments/8zn9e6/i_ordered_a_triple_breakfast_stacks_mcmuffin_wat/

Looks like it'd just be so overwhelming though that you would only be able to eat just one and it'd fill you up and you'd not want to eat McDonalds again for awhile. So the perfect fast food, heh.

[Charlotte Little]

20. OFFS

[left-of-center2012]

12. I would try one

But I always request a packet of strawberry jam to go with my Sausage, egg, and cheese McMuffin.

[Vinca]

13. That looks like a day's worth of calories.

[Charlotte Little]

21. That looks like a day's worth of...

defecating

[Sancho]

14. Sorry...too much salt, fat, and calories

I don't think I've been in McDs in years...and then it was to stop for a salad while traveling.

[OnDoutside]

15. Yum ! Sign me up ! Looks fantastic.

[Peachhead22]

16. I keep getting eggshells

The last two times (separated by several months) I got an egg McMuffin they both had egg shells in them. And that is a major gross-out/pet peeve for me. I doubt I'll get a third one. Perhaps if they did a little better with quality control it would help as well.

As to the new monstrosity: Does it come with a coupon for a free heart bypass? My LDL level went up 20 points just looking at the thing.

[Ms. Toad]

17. And they've pretty much lost me as a customer with their newly designed restaurants.

I stop there mainly for coffee, when I'm on the run to somewhere.

I order coffee, the cashier grabs it, and I'm on my way.

Last time I stopped in there I skipped the new order kiosks, went to the cash register, ordered my coffee, then she turned to the next person.

I waited about 15 minutes for my coffee order to wind its way through the order queue of people ordering full meals.

Fired off a letter t them telling them I won't likely be back, since I only stop when I need to grab a coffee and go, and at those times I can't really afford to wait while they cook several full meal orders.

[JI7]

18. it's the same shit they already have. people can already ask for doubles

it shouldn't count as new.