Some sad news reached Caterer Towers yesterday: the inventor of the Egg McMuffin, Herb Peterson, died peacefully in his sleep at his home in Santa Barbera aged 89. It is not known whether he was a regular consumer of his greatest invention (and international hangover cure).
Still, at least all at McDonald's can console themselves with a nice cup of tea. PG tips being its brew of choice after it signed a deal today with Unilever to sell sustainable tea in its 1,200 stores throughout the UK and Ireland.
That equates to over 24 million cups a year. Nice to see that the monkey from the ITV Digital adverts is having an effect. Remember monkey prefers his PG made with "three stirs clockwise, two stirs back; one and three quarter sugars and show it the milk". Try asking for that and a McMuffin.
Our final story from under the Golden Arches is about 25 year-old Luke Pittard, McDonald's employee and National Lottery winner. Despite scooping £1.3m on the Lotto the Cardiff native went back to his £5.85 an hour job as the novelty of early retirement wore off.
While we can't fault McDonald's as an employee it is this bloggers firm belief that any lottery winner should sign a disclaimer to not return to their old job on the grounds that they don't deserve the winnings in the first place.
I know if I won £1.3m I certainly wouldn't be back on the bloggosphere but I might buy a few cups of PG tips and the odd McMuffin.
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