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The Best Breakfast At Every Fast-Food Restaurant

15. McDonald’s: Bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit

Availability: All day (in most locations, until 10:30 am in some places)

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For this one, we’re going to quote the only people we really trust — ourselves. “If the BEC McGriddle is the wild cousin of the BEC McMuffin, the bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit is that girl next door you always knew you would marry. She’s the Topanga of breakfast sandwiches. The biscuit is the best bun Micky D’s has. The bacon tastes like bacon that was also infused with extra bacon flavoring — just to be safe. The eggs are a delightful fold of prime eggy-ness, and the layer of cheese adds enough excess to make this thing really sing… like a young Janis Joplin or a middle-aged Tina Turner. If you only have one choice at the breakfast menu at Micky D’s, make it this one.”

16. Roy Rogers: Creamed chipped beef and biscuit

Availability: Until 10:30am

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Our dad — and probably your dad, too — affectionately referred to this dish as “shit on a shingle.” And while he (probably?) took great pride in making his own, our own dads claim Roy Rogers has an acceptable rendition, especially for a fast-food spot. That, and its uniqueness to pretty much anything on this list, ake the chipped beef, creamy gravy, and biscuit platter an obvious choice for Roy Rogers. It may just be the best fast-food facsimile of good ol’ country cookin’ in the world. Fuck off, Cracker Barrel.

17. 7-Eleven: One ripe banana and a Slurpee

Availability: 24/7, 365

If you are unlucky enough to resort to breakfast at 7-Eleven, buy one banana and an extra-large Slurpee (dealer’s choice!) to help tide you over till you reach some brighter shores of ante meridiem foodstuff. Which means, basically anywhere else.

18. Hardee’s: Pretzel breakfast sandwich with sausage

Availability: Until 10:30am

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Soft-pretzel overlord, Auntie Anne has been singing her siren song to teens across America for decades now, her signature salty oil seeping into Hot Topic T-shirts with reckless, detergent-defying abandon. And just recently, some perverted Hardee’s genius decided to split dear Auntie’s mall-rat masterpieces down the middle, toasting the halves and stuffing them with a surprisingly thick slice of ham and a folded, uniformly fried egg, hugged by not one, but two layers of melted cheese (American and Swiss). These classic breakfast sandwich furnishings are hearty, if not a tad salty, but the pretzel bun truly steals the show here. Ya girl’s still got it.

19. Taco Bueno: Egg and potato breakfast burrito

Availability: Until 10:30am

Taco Bueno

In general, it’s just a very well-done burrito. The eggs are always fluffy, the potatoes aren’t oddly shaped, or with those burnt chunks like you get at places like Sonic. The tortillas are toasted, too, so it has this very light crunch when you bite into it. Bueno’s salsa is pretty legendary; needless to say, it goes amazingly well with egg and potato. While it may seem like a basic dish, sometimes simplicity goes hand in hand with greatness. Oh yeah, and they’re usually on sale for 59 cents, which is insane. A small price to pay for possibly dying young.

20. White Castle: Breakfast Waffle Slider

Availability: All day, every day

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We didn’t even know White Castle served breakfast, far less a breakfast sandwich as inventive, visually appealing, and f-ing delicious as the Waffle Slider. We’re talking an honest-to-God freshly cracked egg, fried and topped with a zesty sausage patty, smothered in cheese, and cradled between two semi-sweet, semi-crunchy Belgian waffles. It’s what every other savory-sweet breakfast creation wants to be when it grows up, equal parts salt and sugar, with just enough spice to sufficiently pique the average diner’s interest. Word on the street is that some locations also sell an upgraded Sausage & Gravy Waffle Slider. Somebody call Harold and Kumar, it’s time to re-up that road trip.

Source: thrillist.com