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Almost two weeks ago I got together with some co-workers for coffee and we decided to do a taste test between the McDonald’s Egg McMuffin (McD’s) and Tim Horton’s breakfast sandwich on an english muffin (Tim’s). We tested both the bacon and sausage sandwiches cut them up into quarters and split them up between the four of us. Now as far as I know none of us are food connoisseurs so we graded them on yumminess factor (we all voted on which one we liked best).

McD’s:

What we liked:

• Real whole egg
• lots of grease on the egg
• Tasty well seasons sausage
• Greasy well seasoned sausage
• Real egg, with grease
• Overall sausage McMuffin was moist and tasty
• Though cheese was processed it was tasty

What we didn’t like:

• Sausage was not for those who don’t like greasy meat
• Found bacon dry and minimal
• Processed cheese

Bacon yumminess factor: 2 / 4
Sausage yumminess factor: 4 / 4

Tim’s:

What we liked:

• Egg patty thing was seasoned
• More bacon than McD’s
• Sausage was seasoned

What we didn’t like:

• Egg seemed fake being formed into a patty type thing
• Bacon Seemed dry
• Sausage though greasy, not a moist as McD’s
• Processed cheese, and not as tasty as McD’s
• English muffin seemed to lack flavor? or maybe it was the whole combination.

Bacon yumminess factor: 2 / 4
Sausage yumminess factor: 3 / 4

Before we started I really believed that Tim Horton’s would have one this one, but in our test it was unanimous that the McD’s Sausage McMuffin was the big winner here. Now all the sandwiches were great but we found that the McDonald’s Sausage McMuffin had the best ratio of grease, salt and egg. Who can resist that salty grease!
As you can see we didn’t test all the option, I myself like the Tim’s biscuit over the english muffin, and McDonald’s has that McGriddle, which I have tried and was disappointed in the omelet egg thing and the overall salty but super sweet flavor of it, our intention was to compare just the english muffin versions. I think you can get your breakfast sandwich on a bagel at Tim’s as well… maybe another time hen I starve myself and have a longer coffee break we can test them all and maybe come up with a grading sheet of some sort, though that seems like a lot of effort.

Tags: biscut, breakfast sandwhich, english muffin, McDonald's, McMuffin, Tim Hortons

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