The McGriddles is a breakfast sandwich

Breakfast sandwich

A breakfast sandwich is a sandwich served for breakfast at fast food restaurants and delis or bought as a fast ready to heat and eat sandwich from a store. Breakfast sandwiches can also be made from scratch in the home....

 sold by the international fast-food restaurant chain McDonald's

McDonald's

McDonald's Corporation is the world's largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants, serving around 64 million customers daily in 119 countries. Headquartered in the United States, the company began in 1940 as a barbecue restaurant operated by the eponymous Richard and Maurice McDonald; in 1948...

. Introduced in 2003, it is available in the American

United States

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, German

Germany

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, Turkish

Turkey

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, Brazil

Brazil

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ian, Canadian

Canada

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, Polish

Poland

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, Japan

Japan

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ese, Guatemala

Guatemala

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n and Singapore

Singapore

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 markets. It is scheduled for a 2011 4th quarter release into Australia

Australia

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n restaurants.

Product description

The "standard" McGriddles sandwich consists of bacon, egg and American cheese served on a small pancake

Pancake

A pancake is a thin, flat, round cake prepared from a batter, and cooked on a hot griddle or frying pan. Most pancakes are quick breads; some use a yeast-raised or fermented batter. Most pancakes are cooked one side on a griddle and flipped partway through to cook the other side...

 made with maple flavoring. Both the top and bottom griddle cakes are embossed with the McDonald's logo.

Variants

• Sausage
• Sausage, egg and cheese
• Bacon, egg, and cheese
• Canadian bacon, egg and cheese (Canada)
• Scrapple
  Scrapple
  Scrapple, also known by the Pennsylvania Dutch name pon haus, is traditionally a mush of pork scraps and trimmings combined with cornmeal and flour, often buckwheat flour, and spices. The mush is formed into a semi-solid congealed loaf, and slices of the scrapple are then panfried before serving...
  
  , egg and cheese (served in the Philadelphia region)
• Spam
  Spam (food)
  Spam is a canned precooked meat product made by the Hormel Foods Corporation, first introduced in 1937. The labeled ingredients in the classic variety of Spam are chopped pork shoulder meat, with ham meat added, salt, water, modified potato starch as a binder, and sodium nitrite as a preservative...
  
  , egg and cheese (served only in Hawaii as a promotional item)
• Chicken and cheese (in the Southeastern United States)
• Soaked with maple syrup (the only type served in Poland)

Criticism

This product was mentioned at the end of Super Size Me

Super Size Me

Super Size Me is a 2004 American documentary film directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock, an American independent filmmaker. Spurlock's film follows a 30-day period from February 1 to March 2, 2003 during which he eats only McDonald's food...

, along with McDonald's promoted healthy options.

External links

• Moskin, Julia. The Breakfast Wars. The New York Times. 10 January 2007. D1.
• McDonald's USA Nutrition Facts
• X-Entertainment article on McGriddles
• July 2, 2003 Flak Magazine on McGriddles