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All hail the Mc10:35!

Published
by
Joel
on March 5, 2010
in 930posts, Fun Stuff and Recipes
. 2 Comments

There is a secret movement sweeping San Francisco McDonalds. It’s an elusive beast akin to our own McGangBang 2.0. Unlike our aforementioned gastrointestinal delicacy, this mashup of a sandwich can only be obtained once every day. Once every day! How could this be!

Imagine for a moment, it’s mid morning and you’re standing in a McDonalds wracked with guilt. Do you appease your intestinal lusting with a piece of midday sustenance or do you pounce upon a breakfast bite to better remind yourself of what could have been had you slept in? Desperate you look at the clock, time is running out. If you wait too long your decision will be made and breakfast will have died by the wayside.  But dammit, you still yearn for the comfort a breakfast sandwich brings even as you acquiesce to the sustainability of the ubiquitous burger. And then it hits you: the Mc10:35!

This magnificent piece of culinary composition is at its core a McDouble and an Egg McMuffin. It’s creation is even simpler. Once both items are procured, you carefully extricate the egg and canadian bacon from the McMuffin and add it to the top of the McDouble. It’s bliss in a bun giving you that last little bit of morning sunshine coupled with a nice meaty kick to get you through the day rest of your day. Now, seeing as it’s 10:20, I for one am off to the Golden Arches.

[via Consumerist]

*Picture courtesy of Consumerist since I work for the Man and have no access to a camera.

Recipe: Charlie’s Black-Eyed Peas

Published
by
Charlie
on January 2, 2010
in Recipes and The more you know...
. 0 Comments

While it won’t do you readers any good at this point, some of you may know that eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day is said to give you good luck for the remainder of the year. Here’s my freshly-developed and delicious recipe for a New Year’s delicacy:

Charlie’s Black-Eyed Peas

Ingredients:

  • 1 Can black eyed peas
  • 4 Strips bacon
  • 1 Clove garlic
  • 1 Stalk celery
  • 1/2 Green bell pepper
  • 100% pure maple syrup
  • Crushed red pepper (dried)
  • Black pepper

Directions:

  1. Cook bacon strips in cast iron (preferred) pan using low heat until moderately crispy. While keeping an eye on the bacon, continue to Step 2. Set bacon and resulting grease aside. Do not discard grease!
  2. Gather garlic clove, celery stalk, and bell pepper. Finely chop all three ingredients.
  3. Empty black eyed peas into a medium saucepan. Add chopped garlic, celery, and bell pepper. Break each strip of bacon into 3-4 pieces. Add bacon to saucepan.
  4. Add a few teaspoons of bacon grease from the frying pan to the saucepan with the black eyed peas.
  5. Add maple syrup to saucepan to taste. I would recommend a few tablespoons — but don’t over do it.
  6. Add a few shakes of black pepper and crushed red pepper to taste.
  7. Stir well and simmer on low heat for about 30 minutes, stirring every 5-10 minutes.
  8. Enjoy!