Cravings know no boundaries, and sometimes,
you just want a Big Mac for breakfast. You're an adult, after all, and adulting is
hard. There's no reason you shouldn't be able to
have a Big Mac first thing in the morning… so why on earth would McDonald's deny you? "I would like to buy a hamburger!" "I would like to buy a hamburgah!" "I would like to buy a hamburger!" "I would like to buy de burguh!" "I would like to buy a hamburger!" "Iwouldlietobuyhambuguh!" It turns out there are two reasons: the official
one, and then the real one. First, there's the official reason. McDonald's spokespeople told The Wall Street
Journal that it's simple: people don't really want it. "The demand isn't strong enough to warrant
running the burger grill in the morning." Hardcore morning burger fans clearly disagree,
though. So what's the real reason McDonald's doesn't
serve burgers in the morning? Well, according to a number of Reddit posters
who claim to be current or former McDonald's employees, it has to do with how the kitchen
works. It turns out there's a big transition between
the breakfast menu and the lunch menu. Some of it is for health and safety reasons,
as there's a process for handling and serving meat that needs to be followed. But there's also the issue of cooking different
types of food on the same grill, with one poster saying, "I'm cringing at the thought of biting into
some grilled chicken with McDonald's sausage grease in it." And over on Quora, a McDonald's employee pointed
out that eggs and burgers are cooked on the same equipment at very different temperatures,
and there's no way to easily switch between the two. Try to cook them at the same temperature and
you'll get undercooked burgers and overcooked eggs, and nobody wants either of those things. Of course, burger conspiracy theorists point
out the big flaw in these arguments: all day breakfast. But before you do your gotcha dance, there
are a couple issues with that argument. First, according to Reader's Digest, all day
breakfast has caused longer wait times in the afternoon. Which is fine for the lazy loafers who eat
at McDonald's for their mid day snack. But longer lines caused by serving both meal
options could be a major issue for commuters trying to beat the early morning rush to work. That's one of the reasons they held off on
all-day breakfast to begin with. "Sorry, sir, we stopped serving breakfast." "What are you talking about, we're four seconds
late!" "No, you're 30 minutes and four seconds late,
we stopped serving breakfast at 10:30." "Aww, HORSES---!" The other thing is, as Slate points out, McDonald's
isn't actually offering their entire breakfast menu all day. It varies by region and by store, and in some
locations there are just some options you can't get. Many aren't serving hash browns all day, for
example, just because it's logistically impossible. There just isn't enough room in the fryers
to make hash browns and fries, so cuts are necessary. And making fries in the morning wouldn't really
be feasible anyway, because fries are made in bulk batches. As one Reddit philosopher pointed out, "… they have to put on an entire basket
full. So I sort of understand if in the morning,
they don't want to make all these fries for the one guy asking for them." Still, all-night workers and early-morning
snackers shouldn't lose hope. After all, just a few short years ago, fans
were bemoaning the fact that all day breakfast wasn't a thing. It just speaks to the power of bemoaning that
now, all day breakfast exists. So maybe all day burgers could follow suit
at some point in the future, though hopefully all-day burger advocates won't be quite so…
militant with their demands. "I don't want lunch, I want breakfast." "Yeah, well, hey. I'm really sorry." "Yeah, well, hey, I'm really sorry too!" And here's a bit of news that will give burger
lovers even more to feel good about. McDonald's does, in fact, serve both burgers
and breakfast alongside each other during all hours of the day in one country: Australia. In 2018, News.com.au confirmed that the plan,
which had started out as a trial in just a few areas of the country, was going nationwide,
with Big Macs, cheeseburgers, McNuggets, Quarter Pounders, and fries making the jump to the
breakfast menu. Does that mean there's potential for it to
happen in the US, too? As noted burger enthusiast Kevin Garnett famously
said, "Anything is possible. Anything is POSSIBLE!!!" Check out one of our newest videos right here! Plus, even more Mashed videos about your favorite
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