What could be better? When will we know?

[sovay]

Because I had to give blood at a frankly stupid hour of the morning, afterward I took spatch to Mike & Patty's. He likes breakfast sandwiches and my mother had heard a rave of theirs on the radio. I do not like breakfast sandwiches. It's mostly because I don't like fried eggs, or even scrambled eggs unless I make them myself. Mei Mei got around my aversion by wrapping their oozily fried eggs in scallion pancakes and pesto, but for years the Double Awesome was alone of its kind and I tended to order its ham-based cousin, the Porco Rosso, when I could. I am still not designed for the majority of American breakfast foods, but it turns out that if the egg is fried hard enough and layered into a Reuben-adjacent mound of pastrami, cheddar, and a slightly mustardier relative of fry sauce on a griddled English muffin, it does count as real food by me. Rob reports favorably on the slyly named McLustin', which did not obliterate its traditional stack of fried egg, bacon, American cheese, and hash brown with its tongue-nipping sriracha ketchup. We ate while watching a swan chase a Canada goose across a reservoir like a majestically petty pocket battleship. The latest episode of Widow's Bay (2026–) scored its local points with a background issue of Agni such as fetch up secondhand anywhere within reading distance of Boston University. I picked up several issues that way myself.

Comments

[gwynnega]

Those breakfast sandwiches sound delicious. (I love breakfast sandwiches, and most breakfast foods, though I mostly have to avoid egg yolks for cholesterol reasons.)

[troisoiseaux]

Apropos of absolutely nothing, did you see that the Mountain Goats have a new song out ("Charlie Sheen Reaches Out to the Feds") (I'm not sure this is the most weirdly specific song John Darnielle has ever written but it has to be up there??) & new album coming out in August?

[radiantfracture]

After the revolution can I have your share of the breakfast sandwiches

[gullyfoyle]

In the hope of making you feel an atom's breadth better, I'd like to share a fact I just encountered in Against the Odds: Major Donald E. Keyhoe and his Battle to End UFO Secrecy by Linda C. Powell: Van Heflin's brother, Martin, was at one time the Chairman of Public Relations for the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomenon (NICAP). You are welcome.

[oracne]

Those sound like some tasty sandwiches.

[asakiyume]

it turns out that if the egg is fried hard enough and layered into a Reuben-adjacent mound of pastrami, cheddar, and a slightly mustardier relative of fry sauce on a griddled English muffin, it does count as real food by me. --OMG mouthwatering.

McLustin' is a great name, and the description lives up to it.