Meanings
plural McGriddles
- A type of breakfast sandwich sold by the international fast food restaurant chain McDonald's that typically consists of fried bacon, a scrambled egg flap, and American cheese served on two small griddlecakes made with maple flavoring.
He sat down at the metal card table and opened a McGriddle.
2009, Roger Stelljes, Deadly Stillwater - Thriller: McRyan Mystery Series, Roger Stelljes, →ISBN5 more examples
Trying to sneak a decoy within sight of a tom's roost tree can have you eating a McGriddle long before the drive-through stops serving breakfast.
2008, Field & Stream, page 93I'm sure this culture change came about because McDonald's probably sponsors one of those fishing shows on TV or advertises in the fishing magazines with a picture of some national bass tournament winner eating a McGriddle.
2013, Herb Agee, My F-Word Is Forgiveness, WestBow Press, →ISBNA McGriddle, perhaps? Ah, at long last, a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit. She took a huge bite of the cold biscuit, the otherwise tasty grease congealed like the orangey-yellow cheese slice, crumbling the enormous biscuit as she pulled it ...
2014, Dan Richart, Prodigal Bum, BookBaby, →ISBNBerkeley said, “What?” And she said, “You heard me. As soon as I get this floor done, I'm getting in the car and getting me a McGriddle.” Berkeley started jumping up and down.
2017, Ann Dee Ellis, You May Already Be a Winner, Penguin, →ISBN, page 124If the dieter's solution is to deprive or deform what is the well-being solution? If I ask you to delay the gratification of eating a McGriddle what do you get in return for waiting? Two McGriddles? Of course not.
2018, Michael Alvear, V.E. Strousberg, Make Your Life Great Again With Donald Trump’s Classic Moves, Woodpecker Media, →ISBN
Origin
From Mc- + griddle, coined as a trademark, McGriddles, in 2002.
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