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What's so great about McDonald's Steak Egg & Cheese Bagel?<\/h2>\r\nThe breakfast menu actually has three bagel sandwiches, the others being Bacon, Egg & Cheese and Sausage, Egg & Cheese. But McDonald's Steak Egg & Cheese Bagel is something truly special. It's preposterously indulgent. This is not a healthy McDonald's breakfast<\/a> by any means, nor is it something to be eaten casually. This is a sammie that you order when you need a morning meal<\/em>.\r\n\r\nThe bagel is not great, and that's fantastic. I grew up in New York City, so bagels are another food group I take seriously. And if McDonald's used a serious bagel in this situation, the sandwich wouldn't be as good. This bagel is too dense and chewy to be enjoyable with cream cheese, but as the base of something marvelously greasy, it couldn't be more perfect. It sucks up all the errant juices and flavors from the fillings without losing structural integrity.\r\n\r\nAs for those fillings, there's a fluffy folded egg topped with a slice of melted American cheese and sweet roasted onions. Then there's a steak burger patty, which is exclusive to breakfast for reasons unknown. It's far better than the beef patties used on the Big Macs or McDoubles (which are small and have a tendency to dry out), with enough moisture to balance out the egg.\r\n\r\nA simple sandwich becomes sublime if all its elements work in perfect unison, and that's exactly what the McDonald's Steak Egg & Cheese Bagel achieves.\r\n

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