McDonald’s menu from 1987 re-surfaces showing 60 cent hash browns and a Sausage & Egg McMuffins for $1.65 – but all everyone wants to know WHY they scrapped the ‘Big Breakfast’
- Long before gourmet options, McDonald’s served up a simple breakfast menu
- An old flyer has resurfaced showing the vast difference between the prices
- About 32 years ago, diners could order a ‘Big Breakfast’ for just $2.75
- Menu from 1987 shows $1.65 Sausage McMuffin with Egg and 60c hash brown
- While the most breakfast meals remained the same, the price was very different
Long before the gourmet burgers, gravy loaded fries and healthy salads, McDonald’s Australia served up a very simple breakfast menu.
An old flyer has resurfaced on social media showing the vast difference between the prices of 1987 and 2019 – and my, how times have changed.
About 32 years ago, diners could order a ‘Big Breakfast’ for just $2.75, which included scrambled eggs, sausage, hash browns and a muffin.
Chad Bonello shared the breakfast menu in Old Shops Australia Facebook group after he found it hidden under a furniture in his manager’s office at a McDonald’s in Woodbine, in Sydney’s southwest in 2002.
The black-and-white coupon offered customers a free breakfast item if they made a purchase at McDonald’s Punchbowl store, which was valid until March 23, 1987.
Long before the gourmet burgers, gravy loaded fries and healthy salads, McDonald’s Australia served up a very simple breakfast menu
The black-and-white coupon offers customers a free breakfast item at a McDonald’s Punchbowl store, which was valid until March 23, 1987
The post has since attracted more than 100 ‘likes’, with social media users calling on the fast food chain to bring back the ‘Big Breakfast’
‘To introduce you to our new breakfast menu we invite you to use this coupon and treat a friend to breakfast. Simply buy a breakfast item and it will be our pleasure to give you another of the same variety absolutely free,’ the flyer read.
And while most of the original breakfast meals remained the same, the price was very different.
Australians were stunned at the extremely low prices, including the Egg McMuffin, Sausage McMuffin with Egg and Scrambled Eggs and Muffin all costing $1.65 each and a hash brown for 60 cents.
Today, a Sausage and McMuffin costs $4.50 while a hash brown is $1.90.
Three hot cakes with syrup once cost diners just $1.65 – now they’re $4.45.
Social media users were reminiscing on the old menu, with many calling on the fast food chain to ‘bring back the Big Breakfast’.
Australians were stunned at the extremely low prices, including the Egg McMuffin, Sausage McMuffin with Egg and Scrambled Eggs and Muffin all costing $1.65 each and a hash brown for 60 cents (pictured of McDonald’s breakfast meals today)
Three hot cakes with syrup once cost diners just $1.65 – today they’re $4.45, while hash browns used to cost 60 cents (pictured of today)
One said: ‘The big breakfast was the best should never have been removed from the menu.’
‘That was the worst thing McDonald’s did, and that is take away the big breakfast, I loved it,’ another commented.
One person posted: ‘I wish they still had the big breakfast.’
Another said: ‘Wish they still did the big breakfast and scrambled eggs, probably called Smashed eggs now.’
And another wrote: ‘About a month ago I went into McDonald’s and asked about the Big Breakfast and the girl just looked at me with a blank look on her face. She had no idea what I was talking about and had never heard of it. Made me feel really old lol.’
Many were shocked at the prices, while others commented on the menu.
One posted: ‘Compare the prices of the Egg McMuffin and Sausage and Egg McMuffin… can’t believe I was paying those prices back then.’
And one commented: ‘No bacon.’