Chicken

You know that chicken is a rapidly growing fast food category when McDonald's offers up a Chicken Big Mac.

I mean, they already have a chicken sandwich, but this was the Chicken Big Mac for a limited time only, which generally means it's not popular enough to keep on the regular menu.

But Big Mac sauce, I guess they think it goes with everything.

Mickey D's does regularly offer a chicken McMuffin.

Some other chains are also trying to get me to eat chicken at breakfast.

I don't know what it is, man, but I just cannot have chicken for breakfast.

Chicken does not belong at breakfast.

Eggs, yes, of course, eggs.

But if that egg ever becomes a chicken, sorry, save it for lunch or dinner.

Breakfast is pork, beef, fish, even cold pizza.

But it ain't chicken.

That's just weird.

By the way, the chicken McMuffin does not come with an egg.

Chicken with eggs.

I don't know.

Something about that is also unsettling to me.

Incidentally, the great Paul Simon once saw a menu item at a Chinese restaurant in New York that contained both chicken and egg.

He later used that menu item as a song title.

The dish was called Mother and Child Reunion.

I think after I heard that story, that's what turned me off chicken and egg together.

It's a mother and child reunion, and I'm scarfing that down? Ooh.

McDonald's chicken products now outsell their beef items.

Funny, because the Golden Arches refused to include any chicken on their menus for decades, finally bowing to consumer pressure in 1983 with the introduction of, that's right, the McNugget.

Well, that was almost chicken.

Recently, a new Mary Brown's chicken opened up near me.