Biscuit sandwiches
The Breakfast Best Sausage, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Breakfast Sandwich (Aldi’s house brand) had a biscuit so tough it was hard to cut through, even with a sharp chef’s knife. One tester could click it on her plate like a rock and said she “almost broke a tooth.”
Mason Dixie’s Cheddar Biscuit Sandwich with Sausage & Egg comes out tough, dry, and crunchy from the microwave. And it commits the gravest breakfast sandwich sin of all: It doesn’t have cheese. (Yes, there is cheese folded into the biscuit, but that doesn’t count. We couldn’t taste it.)
The egg patty from the Great Value Biscuit Sandwiches Sausage Egg and Cheese had an oddly bouncy texture that can only be described as wack. That said, the biscuit was somewhat soft, and some testers did find it oddly nostalgic, like a “very classic cheap breakfast sando.” The instructions specify to leave the sandwich in the plastic film it’s wrapped in while it’s in the microwave, something we weren’t willing to compromise on to get a softer biscuit.
Croissant sandwiches
Testers unanimously found the Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg & Cheese Croissant Sandwich appeared so light as to seem undercooked. The croissant was bready in an acceptable way, but it paled in comparison to the croissant on the Jimmy Dean Protein Breakfast Sausage Croissant, literally. One taster also found every component, even the eggs, to be overly sweet.
Every tester said the Breakfast Best Sausage, Egg & Cheese Croissant Breakfast Sandwich from Aldi was overly chewy and gummy yet somehow hard at the same time. The croissant was bland and floury, and the egg had a plastic-like taste.
If you’ve ever had the dense, watery sponge cosplaying as scrambled eggs at a cheap motel’s free breakfast, you’ve had the eggs on the Great Value Sausage Egg and Cheese Croissant Sandwich.
Likely due to the plastic film it’s microwaved in (as per the instructions), the cheese from Great Value’s Bacon, Egg, and Cheese Croissant Sandwich came out burnt, hard, and adhered to the sandwich’s plastic wrapper. Both the sausage and egg tasted burnt as well. The croissant was tough too, and pieces flaked off like chipped paint.
Griddle cake sandwiches
The Mason Dixie Sweet Maple Pancake Sandwich with Sausage & Egg had a nice, thick griddle cake that we were excited to try, but it ended up being gummy. There’s also no cheese, so the egg, patty, and griddle cakes slid around instead of remaining a cohesive sandwich. Plus, multiple tasters thought it tasted vaguely (and very oddly) of fried rice.
Cheese oozed beautifully from the Great Value Sausage, Egg & Cheese Maple Griddle Sandwich, but calling these “griddle cakes” is a stretch — they’re so thin, they’re more akin to crepes.
English muffin sandwiches
Mason Dixie’s English Muffin Sandwich with Canadian Bacon, Egg and Cheese suffered from a tough, leathery English muffin. The Canadian bacon was dry and very sweet, like honey ham.
The Jimmy Dean Sausage, Egg & Cheese English Muffin Sandwich left two tasters (including me) spitting it out. The sausage patty was oddly floral, and we dubbed it “mystery meat.”
The Kodiak Breakfast Sandwich English Muffin Turkey Sausage & Cheddar Cheese failed to impress us. We found the sage- and pepper-forward patty to be thin, and it looked like a soy patty. The muffin was very soft but didn’t lean into a gummy territory. Shocker: It’s turkey sausage and a whole wheat muffin. We were willing to be forgiving, considering the compromises made for a “healthier” sandwich. Still, we wouldn’t recommend it.
This guide was edited by Ben Frumin and Marilyn Ong.
