But then I tasted it, and I was sold.'Īccording to Time, Patty Turner, the wife of a McDonald's executive, came up with the name 'Egg McMuffin.' By 1975, the Egg McMuffin was being sold nationwide for the low price of 63 cents.īy 1981, breakfast accounted for 18% of all McDonald's sales, Time reported. This was served open-faced on a toasted and buttered English muffin. 'It consisted of an egg that had been formed in a Teflon circle, with the yolk broken, and was dressed with a slice of cheese and a slice of grilled Canadian bacon. 'He didn't want me to reject it out of hand, which I might have done, because it was a crazy idea - a breakfast sandwich,' Kroc wrote.

Eventually, well all go back to receiving a simple Big Mac with our Big Mac order, and when that time. Kroc later told the story of how the Egg McMuffin came to be in his 1977 autobiography, 'Grinding it Out: The Making of McDonald's.' Our Big Mac® burger is irresistible with two 100 Aussie beef patties, iceberg lettuce, melting cheese, onions, pickles and our signature sauce. While 6.2 million coins is a lot of coins, its not so many that these will last forever. Herb Peterson, the creator of the Egg McMuffin, shows off his invention Tuesday, April 1, 1997, at one of his McDonald's franchises in Santa Barbara, California.

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