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Inventor of McDonald's Egg McMuffin Has Died

money.cnn.com — The man who invented the popular egg sandwich as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald's passed away at age 89.

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  • oveedrx, on 03/27/2008, -16/+4Something tells me the egg mcmuffin was the culprit j/k RIP
  • badwithcomputer, on 03/27/2008, -11/+12Travis: I would like to say this. Tardiness is not something you can do on your own. Many, many people contributed to my tardiness. I would like to thank my parents for never giving me a ride to school, the LA city bus driver who took a chance on an unknown kid and last but not least, the wonderful crew from McDonalds who spend hours making those egg McMuffins without which I'd never be tardy.
    • Kidtuf, on 03/27/2008, -1/+20I don't know what is worse, that you're quoting lines from the move Clueless, or that I know that you're quoting lines from Clueless...
    • MuletTheGreat, on 03/27/2008, -0/+8The sausage and egg aint bad either.
      • justok, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2the sausage and egg is the best, but only if you ask to substitute bacon for the sausage.
    • YamiJim, on 03/27/2008, -2/+1Fast times at Ridgemont High > Clueless.
      Titties + Judge Reinhold +BJ practice = Pwnt
  • DeathJux, on 03/27/2008, -2/+44The Egg McMuffin is the only good thing McDonald's produces.
    • MuletTheGreat, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1My store sells frozen coke also.
    • doctechnical, on 03/27/2008, -3/+8I beg to differ - for a buck their Double Cheeseburger ain't bad 'tal.
      • po43292, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1Ask them to substitute Big Mac sauce instead of the ketchup. Even better.
    • matriculated, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2No. The Sausage and Egg McMuffin and the hash browns are the best thing McDonald's produces.
    • rullingen, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4This man has eased many a hangover for me.
      RIP
    • alexpigment, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4and it's about the least unhealthy thing they make too
    • bejayel, on 03/27/2008, -2/+1Tim Hortons' Breakfast Sandwich is better. I find the eggs to not taste so gross.
    • themastersb, on 03/27/2008, -1/+2Goodnight sweet prince...
  • pokedex, on 03/27/2008, -2/+9this kind of reminds me of the scene in The Wire where they debate whether or not the chicken mcnugget inventor was some rich guy or somebody that ronald mcdonald kept locked in the basement and ordered to make the chicken taste better.
    • mal1964, on 03/27/2008, -2/+5Wallace: (about the guy who invented the chicken mcnugget) He richa than a *****. He's got mad loot.
      D'Angelo Barksdale: He ain't got no money nigga! What you think Ronald McDonald walk his clown ass down to that little old lab in the McDonald's building basement and says "Hey Mr. Nugget, you the bomb. Let me hook you up with this big ass check." Nah, that nigga is still down in that little lab, broke as hell, probably cause his boss took all the credit.
      Wallace: . . . They're still good.
      • Digger1218, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Awesome scene.
        • mal1964, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2I just started watching last week, my buddy has every season so i watched #1 in two days. I have #2 right next to me. It took two episodes but I'm hooked now.
  • CAPITALLETTERS, on 03/27/2008, -20/+3Why the ***** is this worthy of the Digg frontpage? Buried.
    • Hayaemsay, on 03/27/2008, -0/+5I'm wondering that myself.

      Anyone want to enlighten us?
  • TheSum, on 03/27/2008, -3/+5Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.......
  • isunktheship, on 03/27/2008, -2/+43When's the McFuneral?
    • doctechnical, on 03/27/2008, -1/+21Due to high traffic the funeral has been delayed a bit, but the body is being kept warm underneath a heat lamp. If you could just pull up and to the left, please...
    • astrotrain, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3As soon as they purchase the McCoffin and make McPlans with the McFuneral Director (who will be sporting the Ronald Look for the viewing). Then he will be loaded into a McHearse and then burried at McCemetary in a McGrave with a McDonalds Symbol atop.

      All items above will be available as toys in the McMorbid Happy Meal next month.
  • digg-dugg, on 03/27/2008, -2/+4It is a sad day, indeed.
  • spuncoke, on 03/27/2008, -8/+1I love the Egg McMuffin best break fest invented
    • matthewf01, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1it's not quite a 'fest'... but you're trying.
  • P1um, on 03/27/2008, -2/+7...and has taken millions with him. RIP
  • laserblazer, on 03/27/2008, -1/+56Age 89? Something tells me he didn't eat at McDonalds.
    • earthceltic, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1I, for one, was expecting to see coronary artery disease as the cause.
      Of course this might be a stereotype. "Colonel Sanders" died of leukemia; Dave Thomas of liver cancer. Now, whether these were caused indirectly by the food consumption of their life, we may never know.
      • matthewf01, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1Dave Thomas also underwent a quadruple bypass at one point.
        • astrotrain, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1Bob: "Yeah I had a lot of beers afterwards..."
          Doug: "Your such a hose head... they're talking about the Wendy's Dave Thomas..."
          Bob: "Oh... good day then"
    • rplantz, on 03/28/2008, -0/+1it's because he was so old. if he would've eaten at mcdonald's, he probably wouldn't have lived as long.

      wait a second...did you already know that!?!?!?
  • wtfunkymonkey, on 03/27/2008, -1/+49I'll have to order one of those in the mourning.
  • MuletTheGreat, on 03/27/2008, -9/+4As an employee of Maccas, this guy sounds awesome. My store manager is a ***** *****. The bastard skimps on crew hours, making less people work excessively hard, treats his fellow managers like ***** (7 have quit in the past year!!!), bitches about bad stats despite letting a 17 year old and the new guy order all the stores stockup food....

    I ***** try to give a *****, but when 2 people have been sent home to save $16 for that hour and there is a big ***** line of angry people abusing me for not having enough registers open while captain dickwad is on holidays... I just want to get this guy cloned and in my store.

    ***** MCDONALDS. but its all thats availible in the area, so i can keep going to university.... sigh.
    • WickEd101, on 03/27/2008, -1/+0welcome to the world of business. It's not going to change, it doesn't matter what business you go to. business probably seems even more ridiculous because its being handled by the younger generation of people including hiring lots of young teens. why? because they can.

      i'm sure deep down everybody knows that and understands its always whats right for the employee but whats right for the business, and the business is there to make money. i get it, i've been in a similar business for twelve years, my managers get it. and something tells me that you prefer to swear and bitch about your workplace-which i don't have a problem with-rather that leave, that you understand this too.
      • MuletTheGreat, on 03/27/2008, -0/+5True the the younger crew are cheaper, and this is the most profitable and efficient way they can run it. I understand all that.

        But I also see people driving past our drivethrough, because the line is too long. I see people walkout and drive out before ordering/paying because service is slow. I see managers doing weeks of overnight shifts to be randomly jarred back into day shift -- and being braindead as a result. I see customer complaints because the highschool kids dont give a *****. Ive seen poorly trained kids drop meat and then about to serve it -- until i kick their ass for it.

        Take the profits off 3 large big mac meals and use it hire another crew person per hour. If you serve 4 large big mac meals, you have just made profit. And cut complaints.

        I am not the captain awesome of mcdonalds. I do not consider myself some crusiader for justice. I am just some stupid shmuck trying to do my job properly, because I don't want the locals to recognize me on the streets and ***** hit me bacause I made their daughter sick, or some crack head angry because the food was wrong or have more idiots throw beer bottles at me during the overnighters.

        I care because I live in a bad area, and get my ass kicked by the customers if I do not.
        • camelboy86, on 03/27/2008, -1/+2Some people take their McDonalds way to seriously.
          • MuletTheGreat, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3So I should'nt take my job seriously?
    • doctechnical, on 03/27/2008, -1/+8One day you'll get a real job and look back on these times with fond nostalgia. In the mean time I SAID I WANTED DOUBLE CHEESE ON THAT, *****!
      • MuletTheGreat, on 03/27/2008, -2/+1One 15 year old kid made a salad wrong 5 times in a row. Needless to say the manager made him wear it.
    • cnorris1, on 03/27/2008, -0/+0The skimping on hours so they dont have to pay for benefits is SOP in most of the food industry
    • LastDitchHero, on 03/27/2008, -0/+0Someone needs to call the Waambualnce
  • Kidtuf, on 03/27/2008, -3/+13Thanks for all the diarrhea!
    • astrotrain, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3Sounds like an awkward Frank Sinatra song...."Thanks... for the Diarrhea.... Cha-cha-chaa!...."
  • elpohl, on 03/27/2008, -0/+15FTA: He wrote McDonald's first national advertising slogan, "Where Quality Starts Fresh Every Day."
    What the hell is fresh in McDonald's? But hey, yeah... RIP.
    • DeFex, on 03/27/2008, -0/+13its "quality" that starts fresh. because the food can never go bad, the quality is always the same.
  • RetepNamenots, on 03/27/2008, -9/+1Egg McWhat?
  • WickEd101, on 03/27/2008, -4/+1i feel like a sausage & egg McMuffin right now :(
  • j1ggy, on 03/27/2008, -2/+6I made hundreds of those back in the day... I SALUTE YOU BROTHER!
    • dpcamp, on 03/27/2008, -5/+1totally not something to brag about...
      • j1ggy, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3Funny you say that, I have a good career now and my McD's experience (4 years worth) was something they brought up in my interview that stood out to them. If you can work there you can work anywhere.
  • S0L0, on 03/27/2008, -1/+3I am sure this man is smiling, for the contribution he has made to the world, in breakfast eats.
  • Cablamus, on 03/27/2008, -4/+1:( sausage and egg mc muffins canot be beaten RIP
  • doctechnical, on 03/27/2008, -2/+2Birdie the Early Bird weeps.
  • chrgrose, on 03/27/2008, -7/+1Milk and cereal, FTW. http://youtube.com/watch?v=0UAZu0vF618
  • colonelbuckshot, on 03/27/2008, -2/+4RIP a champion of haute cuisine and a great American
  • ddfall, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2I just had one this morning on my way to work at London Victoria Station. I guess it was an honorary Egg McMuffin in a way with out knowing it. Hey, at least he'll be remembered.
  • Aynatix, on 03/27/2008, -3/+2I just ate one this mourning.. I was like dam this thing is good.. what sad news!
  • jwalske, on 03/27/2008, -3/+0Take a look at this screen shot I took when I read about this earlier on CNN.com: http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a157/jwalske/unt ...
  • dojonz, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4Eggs?...What you need eggs for?...I want hamburgers. You making Egg McMuffins.
  • convoluted, on 03/27/2008, -3/+2Who says McDonalds sends you to an early death?
  • whalt, on 03/27/2008, -0/+5I call for a national moment of indigestion.
  • Abomonog, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1Without reading the article let me guess. Cholesterol poisoning?
  • dildoolielly, on 03/27/2008, -3/+2HUUUUUUUUGE DEFEAT FOR FLAT EARTHERS!

    Huge
  • momsshizzle, on 03/27/2008, -2/+1Why God why???!!!
  • thespecialist2, on 03/27/2008, -1/+2It is truly a sad day for Americans. We have lost one of the greatest innovators of the last 50 years. Who will now lead the voyage of fast food breakfast into the unknown against the likes of the breakfast gravy taco or the hamburger pizza pocket omelet? God bless you, sir.
  • dildoolielly, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2May all the Egg McMuffin "manufacturers" bow their head in a moment of silence.
  • Yoness, on 03/27/2008, -3/+1He didn't 'invent' anything. He sold McDonalds on the idea of selling an egg and muffin sandwich.
  • Arisian, on 03/27/2008, -2/+2wait, Ronald McDonald is dead?
  • om3ga, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2I don't mean this in a mean way, but I would've ***** myself if he died of an aneurism.
  • JohnnyHotballs, on 03/27/2008, -3/+3sandwiches were invented long before this asshole came on the scene.
  • GeorgeStone2, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2I dislike it.
    Everyone I know likes them but me, It seems I am indeed a minority.
  • shebadoo, on 03/27/2008, -3/+2I think I speak for everyone as I drop to my knees, shake my fists to the sky and say "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!"
  • JohnnyHotballs, on 03/27/2008, -1/+6has mayor mccheesy been notified?
  • mikehill33, on 03/27/2008, -2/+1in high school we used to eat two for one.
  • groone, on 03/27/2008, -1/+2It will be a sad day when the creator of the McSteak Bagel dies....that is truly one of the best McDonald inventions...oh...and the McRib. By the sheer brilliance of these two palate gems, I can tell they were invented by the same person
    • matthewf01, on 03/27/2008, -0/+8It's been three days since my last Ribwich! I'm gettin' the shakes! And I'm gettin' the fries!
      • astrotrain, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1The McRib eh?... they stopped that years ago... along with the McBratworst (for Oktoberfest), you may want to get your money back....Anything on there menu always starts with 'Mc'.... after eating it you normal get the *****.
        • slicecom, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1They recently brought the McRib back. At least in my area.
  • Aaronraw, on 03/27/2008, -0/+3Im gonna pour some prescrambled, egglike liquid on the curb. For my dead McHomies.
  • Egress99, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1It scares me that he "invented" the egg mcmuffin and just didnt "create" it.
  • Vash3001, on 03/27/2008, -1/+2The McGriddles are better anyway.
  • srodolff, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2Pictures a dark lab with bubbling cauldrons and yells.........."IT'S ALIVE!!!".
  • marcus1060, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1Surely... he was a king amongst men.
  • Probatus, on 03/27/2008, -0/+4There will be a viewing of the body everyday so people can pay their respects - but only until 11AM
    • tjv1tjv1, on 03/27/2008, -0/+2why can't they just bump it to 12 jeezzzz :(
      I never make it in time.
  • czeman, on 03/27/2008, -0/+1McDonald's should give them out free for a while in his memory.
    Mmmmmm....Egg McMuffins!
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