If McDonald’s ever made one of their breakfast sandwiches available all day long, I’d hope it would be the McGriddle. Breakfast isn’t something I’m able to purchase too often because of my crazy schedule at the radio station. Those rare times I make McDonald’s breakfast hours, I usually go for the Sausage, Egg, and Cheese version, and sometimes when I’m extra hungry I’ll have them toss some bacon on there for a small added charge. The bacon/sausage combo McGriddles is unbelievable.

However, for today’s review I’m sticking with the basic Sausage, Egg, and Cheese sandwich. Inside you’ve got a decent sized sausage patty, fried and folded egg, and a slice of melted American cheese. But the outside is what brings it all together and makes it special… instead of a bun or standard breakfast bread, the sandwich is held together by 2 delicious Griddle Cakes, with Maple Syrup and Brown Sugar baked right in. It’s pancakes without the mess. When the sandwich is done right, which in my experience has been most of the time, the pancakes are nice and moist and the syrup flavor is strong. I don’t consider the strong sweetness of the syrup a bad thing though, because it goes great with the sausage, which has a nice flavor of it’s own and just the right amount of spices. The folded egg and American cheese taste fine, about how you’d expect, but definitely take a backseat to the pancakes and sausage.

I’ve eaten a lot of these sandwiches, and there hasn’t been too many bad ones. The only exceptions I recall… when it just wasn’t hot enough. If the griddle cakes are not cooked thoroughly, the syrup isn’t able to spread out inside, preventing them from getting (and staying) nice and moist. The syrup flavor is still there, but it’s not seeping out of the pancake like it does when it’s toasty warm. That’s the only thing that’s ever been wrong, and it doesn’t happen often enough to warrant a drop in score.

The Sausage, Egg and Cheese McGriddles sandwich is awesome. I can’t say it beats the Enormous Omelette Sandwich from Burger King, but it’s now tied with it, as my 2 favorite fast-food breakfast sandwiches. At only $3.95 for the combo meal, including hash browns and coffee, this delicious item gets a review score of “A-” from me. Speaking of coffee, I finally tried McDonald’s “Premium” stuff and it wasn’t bad. Maybe if we add a “coffee” category here at FFC in the future, I’ll do a review.

Price: $3.95 (combo meal) / Website: McDonalds.com

Fast Food Critic Score: A-

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Nutrition Facts - McDonald’s Sausage, Egg and Cheese McGriddles.

Calories - 560
Calories from Fat - 290
Total Fat - 32 grams
Carbs - 48 grams
Saturated Fat - 12 grams
Trans Fat - 0 grams
Cholesterol - 265 milligrams
Sodium - 1360 milligrams
Protein - 20 grams