For some time now, McD's had a dollar menu, which for breakfast included an egg-and-cheese biscuit and a sausage biscuit. Since I occasionally do manage to go to work early enough to think breakfast is necessary, I had been getting one of each. Having spent my $2, I would remove the sausage patty into to egg&cheese biscuit, produce a sausage&egg&cheese biscuit, plus a plain biscuit (albeit with a little sausage flavoring) that I could slop some strawberry jelly on. See, the normal price of a sausage&egg&cheese was $2.69, so I was coming out ahead.
This morning, I stopped in for the first time in several weeks, and only after my order was rung up did I notice that the egg&cheese biscuit was not on the $1 menu anymore. Actually, I couldn't see since the menu board at McD's is generally the most stupid layout and hadn't been changed for breakfast yet. Anyway my order was now $2.69. Dammit.
This is the 2nd time this has happened. Double-cheesburgers used to be on the $1 menu, but got dropped. Expecting a $2+tax and getting $5 bill was a shock. McD's had enticed me into their store with $1 menu and by being the only thing open on my way home at 10PM. Wendy's 99-cent menu is stripped bare, and Taco Bell's is similarly down-graded.
Maybe I'll just go home and make myself a chicken-salad sandwich.
[Edit: McDouble has replaced double-cheeseburger. Same sandwich but with 1 slice of cheese instead of two. Apparently dairy (cheese) costs are skyrocketing. Hmm, maybe egg-biscuit is still $1? And Taco Bell's new double-cheesy beef burrito for 89-cents is a great deal as far as I'm concerned.]
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