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Behold the EggMcSpamFin!

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The place is a mess. Not as messy as it’ll be by tomorrow night, but it’s still a mess. The movers got everything transferred to the uncarpeted portions of the lower level yesterday, and the carpeting has been pulled up. Plastic tarps are all over the place. Tomorrow the drilling begins.

lilfrypan200wide.jpgIn the meantime, when Carol and I broke for lunch an hour ago, I tried something completely different. I scrambled a single egg in a bowl, dumped some butter into the little one-egg fry pan that I’ve had for years (left) and with the burner on medium made a scrambled egg disk. I then threw a Bay’s English muffin in the toaster, and while it was toasting I broke open a Spam Single onto a Corelle plate and heated it up to a nice sizzle in the microwave. When the muffin came out of the toaster I buttered it good and proper, threw the scrambled egg disk on a muffin’s lower half, lowered the sizzlin’ Spam Single onto the egg, and then slapped the muffin lid on the whole business.

Damn, that was good! Cheap, too, as lunches go. Eggs are about 20c each. Spam Singles run about a buck. A single Bay’s English muffin costs me about 40c. Might have used a nickel’s worth of butter. Total $1.65. Almost entirely sugar-free. Filled me up completely and will probably carry me all the way to suppertime without any need to snack. It would be less fattening without the English muffin, but try as I might, I can’t do completely without English muffins.

Highly recommended.

5 Comments

  1. Erbo says:

    That would probably work with a microwaveable sausage patty as well, which generally come 8 to a package, fairly cheap. Add a slice of American cheese, and that’s pretty much the Sausage McMuffin with Egg. Of course, you can use better cheese if you want. Some precooked bacon heated in the microwave would also work.

    I need one or two of those little bitty frying pans. 🙂

  2. Tom R. says:

    We called it a MORNING MUFFIN at the cafeteria at work. Only they used a slice of ham or something I think instead of the Spam — but that was extra. They also grilled the English Muffin dry on the grill instead of toasting it in a toaster. I can’t remember what they cost, but they were one of the cheapest things on the menu until they outsourced the cafeteria to the lowest bidder and the food became unedible. I think they closed it down after I retired because no one was eating there any more.

    One of my spies told me that it ran at a profit while run in house, but began loosing money when outsourced. I have no proof, but I do believe it.

  3. Dennis says:

    There are Spam singles?!?!?

    Why am I just now hearing about this? I could sneak those past my wife, for God’s sake!

    Oh, brave new world that has such meat-like substances in it!

  4. Yay! Spam-Egg-McLugnut! 🙂

    spam eggs spam and spam
    spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam
    spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam
    spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam
    spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam
    (sorry, Monty Python attack)

    -JRS

    1. Rich Dailey says:

      The Vikings didn’t call it Wonderful Spam for nothing.

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