Originally Posted by
Showbizguru
You know the old saying - breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and dinner like a pauper.
No, I've never run across it, although google shows that it's out there.
Originally Posted by
Jenbel
But you won't get good quality eggs to make those scrambled eggs with. They'll be pale yellow, not bright golden and rich with flavour, from battery hens, not free range.
A higher price is hardly any guarantee of anything different, although one might be getting better at any specific instance.
From what I can tell, there's little correlation in many cases
in the US between price and the quality -- mainly freshness -- of eggs, and I've been more frequently disappointed by overpriced breakfasts at hotels than inexpensive breakfasts at diners. Nor at the local batch of fancified breakfast places can I tell the difference in the eggs.
Nor, cooking breakfast at home, have I seen a difference in taste between the cage-free organic eggs and the cheap supermarket brands. Around here in California, they're all trucked in and kind of meh. When I was in a more rural area for college (nearly 20 years ago) even the cheap supermarket ones were better than we get here, or than I was able to get as a kid in NYC.
Your sausage will be filled with filler and cereals.
None used on the posted ingredients of the McDonald's sausage patty, and given the scrutiny they get about ingredients, I'd expect that to be legit. Sugar and preservatives and undoubtedly a very cheap grade of ground pork.
Your bacon will have been injected with water to bulk it up.
Wouldn't that just cook off, regardless? Especially given the tendency of a lot of places here to cook bacon utterly to death.
I can definitely tell the difference between good and bad bacon, but tend to have better luck with bacon in sandwiches or on hamburgers than on even the priciest of breakfasts I've been exposed to.