xiaturnalia

[elysesewell]

Are there any current or erstwhile McDonald's employees reading this? Are McDonald's restaurants supplied with real eggs, like, in shells, or are the breakfast egg pucks achieved by unnatural means ("pour 100mL of chilled albumin slurry into poach-hopper. Titrate yolk slurry with micropipette until egglike yolk:white ratio is achieved. Do not

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[sentaisquirrel]

My bet is on the 'egg' being some sort of sponge.

But I doubt even the insiders want to know...

[ikepod]

neh its basically a delicacy...its eggs soaked in ammonia...
see here for more http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg

[meliasaurus]

i worked at a dunkin donuts and we also had egg pucks!

i never actually held one, i wasn't allowed to make breakfast sandwhiches (because they're so complicated and stuff...) of course they come frozen. i do believe that they just take a circle/ metal ring an put it on the stove and drop the egg in. it fries in a disconcerting circle shape that you'd rather believe wasn't real.
i've seen this done, but not at a fast food restaurant.

[gravity1318]

I got a breakfast sandwich at panera the other day and that's how they cooked their egg for it.

delicious breakfast sandwich, though the egg quality was DECIDEDLY better than mcdonald's eggs.

[bougieman]

Yeah, Chicken feet are mega popular with many of my Chinese friends when we go out to eat, but I'd even rather eat deep fried bungholes, man. Chicken feet are gross in both texture and taste.

[jenmkat]

i totally know the girl in your icon! that's so wierd.

[sheenabizarre]

oh god, the bungholes!!!
: (

[bougieman]

haha
nom nom nom

[talkingtocactus]

100 year old egg is great. easily better than the crap eggs in mcd's.

I know, let's feed her frog

[anonymous]

Does it amuse your hosts to see what the American will eat, or is it no big deal because it's just their everyday food?

Re: I know, let's feed her frog

[elysesewell]

In China, I almost never get the feeling that people are trying to feed me something gross to shock me. I'm sure the client ordered what he did because it sounded tasty as hell to him; he said, "You can't get this in America," implying, "Lucky you that you get to have it here!"

The worst is when clients try to be nice and accommodating of my ostensibly squeamish American palate: that always means the dreaded KFC breaded gristle sandwich.

Re: I know, let's feed her frog

[radiopore]

Seriously. There's so many things that are posted that I would never dream of eating even if I wasn't a vegetarian!

[serialkiller]

that is the one thing I miss the most from Indonesia, eating like a king for peanuts. you are far braver than I am though.