MSNBC: "McDonald's Expands Breakfast Choices"...MMM, Egg McHaggis...and a few more of MY dream items

[Amerigo Vespucci]

McDonald’s expands coffee, breakfast choices
Chicken biscuits, espresso drinks among items coming to all U.S. outlets

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21776315/

CHICAGO - McDonald's Corp. laid the foundation to perk up its beverage and breakfast offerings Tuesday with plans to add upscale coffee drinks, chicken biscuit sandwiches and breakfast burritos to its U.S. restaurants in the coming weeks.

The addition of espresso coffee drinks, which are being tested in more than 800 stores, will begin next year and will give McDonald's an important foothold into the lucrative $12 billion specialty beverage market. The rollout will likely take last through 2009, officials announced Tuesday.

Following the success of its breakfast menu and drip-coffee, observers have expected the world's largest fast-food company to dive into the fast-growing coffee business as a way to attract new customers to the chain.

McDonald's also plans to add sweet tea, frappes, smoothies and bottled beverages to stores.

Egg McHaggis

Chicken McFeet

McLuau Platter

[Deja Q]

1. This is like April Fool's day a few months early, I sincerely hope?

:wow:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

2. Well, I made up "Egg McHaggis"...and "Chicken McFeet"...and the pig thing...

...but the REST is true.

:evilgrin:

[tjwmason]

3. I certainly wouldn't trust McDonalds to make haggis

I'm sure that it would be nasty in the extreme (unlike real haggis).

[SoxFan]

4. "Upscale"

Can we please declae a moratorium on this phrase? The next time I hear some chamber of commerce type use it, someone's going to have to tase me, bro.

The Manchester chamber types have a fetish for "upscale". They've used it to describe an Irish pub, an ice cream shop, a pizza place, an apartment building, and a sports bar. They even used it to describe an "upscale, Boston-style restaurant and nightclub" which turned out to be a hotspot for cocaine sales and rampant violence.

Nine times out of ten, it simply means that someone is trying to charge more than the market will bear.