Why I like Egg McMuffins

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I know, I know. Egg McMuffins are a McDonald’s breakfast food. I am not supposed to support McDonalds with my money if I don’t support its labor practices or its use of factory farming. but for a minute here, I am selling out, because I want to become an affiliate marketer, and I figured I’d start by blogging about one of my guilty pleasures, egg McMuffins. God forgive me. So, I like egg McMuffins for three reasons. First of all, they do not utilize high calorie biscuits. Secondly, they combine fried eggs, Canadian bacon, and cheese, three of my favorite breakfast foods. Lastly, they are convenient to-go food that can be eaten on the way to work.

Now let’s begin by looking at the caloric content of a McDonalds bacon, egg and cheese biscuit has 460 calories while an egg McMuffin has 310. The bacon, egg and cheese biscuit has 150 more calories because of the fat in biscuits and bacon. Now, fat is not viewed as such horrible a thing as it used to be, but when a person combines it with the refined carbohydrates in bleached white flour, one totally wipes out any of the good qualities of fat. So, if a person eats a bacon. egg and cheese biscuit from McDonald’s, that person can rest comfortably knowing that his or her digestive system is going to trigger the body’s spare-tire building mechanisms. On the other hand, if the same person eats and egg McMuffin for breakfast, he or she can easily burn off those 310 calories before lunchtime.

Now I love bacon, egg and cheese biscuits. Don’t get me wrong. But if I want all that fat, I am going to go to a smaller company to get it. I mean, one can get a good bacon, egg and cheese biscuit at a lot of smaller restaurants and breakfast joints. Still, the thing about the egg McMuffin, again, is a person like me can get generally the same flavor experience as a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit, without that extra 150 calories (or more, depending on how much butter is in the biscuit, and how much fat is in the cheese and the bacon.)

The final reason I love an egg McMuffin is that I can get one through a drive through window on my way to work, unwrap one part of it, and eat the thing before I even get to work. I will have had a high protein breakfast that will keep me filled up until lunchtime, without adding cooking or dishwashing to my morning routine. It’s not going to take me more than 10 minutes to get my egg McMuffin, whereas cooking and cleaning at home would surely take 30 minutes at least.

So, having said all that, it should now be obvious to anyone why I like egg McMuffins for breakfast. I have even been known to get an extra one to heat in the microwave at work for lunch. I have confessed my guilty pleasure, and now I hope I have also embarked upon a new career in affiliate marketing through blogging. God forgive me.

Published by Jessie

Hello, My name is Jessica T. Eustice, and I’m a longtime educator in North Carolina with roughly 40 years of experience in special education, caregiving, literacy support, and community-based work. Like many Americans, I’ve been watching the rapid development of AI with both fascination and concern. Much of the public conversation focuses on jobs disappearing, automation, and economic disruption. But I think there may be another side to the story that deserves attention. My idea is this: AI may push society back toward more individualized, relationship-based work — a kind of modern cottage industry built around uniquely human gifts. Instead of everyone competing for fewer standardized corporate jobs, more people may begin creating small, human-scale forms of work based on personality, trust, mentorship, creativity, and care: - tutoring - coaching - caregiving - teaching - art - storytelling - local services - companionship - skill-sharing AI lowers barriers to entry in ways that make this newly possible. Someone without technical expertise can now build a website, teach online, create educational materials, organize clients, or reach a niche audience. In my own case, I’m exploring a small ESL tutoring practice called “Gentle English With Jessie,” built around patience, emotional safety, and one-on-one encouragement for adult learners. It strikes me that many of the abilities AI cannot easily replace — warmth, presence, trust, reassurance, lived experience, emotional intelligence — are precisely the abilities many ordinary people already possess. I wonder whether the future of work may become less industrial and more personal again. I thought this perspective might be of interest to NPR or WUNC because most AI discussions focus on economics and technology, while fewer focus on the possibility of a human-scale social reorganization around individual gifts and local relationships. Thank you for reading. Sincerely, Jessica T. Eustice Chapel Hill / Carrboro, NC I identify as a teacher of English for English language learners, EC, and Social Studies; I have expertise in the humanities, am experienced in studying Language Arts, Reading, Arithmetic-for-practical-purposes, and Algebra-I. I have striven to broaden and deepen my capabilities to maintain my integrity as a worker in the American economy since 1977 when I started working, as a cashier in fast food. Since then, I have served as a camp counselor, a work-study student in college, a puppet-wagon lady in the summer. I tutored privately, and in an academic institution and with a Learning Center. I taught as an intern teacher, a licensed teacher, and a Community College Instructor. I have also been a retail administrative assistant, and a caregiver.

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