This was served open-faced on a toasted and buttered English muffin.
'It consisted of an egg that had been formed in a Teflon circle, with the yolk broken, and was dressed with a slice of cheese and a slice of grilled Canadian bacon. 'He didn't want me to reject it out of hand, which I might have done, because it was a crazy idea - a breakfast sandwich,' Kroc wrote. Kroc later told the story of how the Egg McMuffin came to be in his 1977 autobiography, 'Grinding it Out: The Making of McDonald's.' Herb Peterson, the creator of the Egg McMuffin, shows off his invention Tuesday, April 1, 1997, at one of his McDonald's franchises in Santa Barbara, California.
