Hot Egg sandwich, Jeffrey's Cafe, Grande Prairie

You know it's been busy when I can't even find the time to update this sandwich blog, despite how many sandwiches I've been consuming.

This one here is from Jeffrey's Cafe in Grande Prairie, Alberta, where I stayed for about a week in June and ate out for almost every single meal at some form of chain restaurant. Jeffrey's had the freshest options, but somehow, they consistently screwed up my sandwich and/or salad order every single time that I am only going to share this one sandwich that they could not mess up, and that is the hot egg breakfast sandwich.

I don't remember much about it, except that the egg was hot and the bread was too big for what it was carrying, but it was nice to eat a fresh tomato and basil with my eggs for a wee change that week. I could only have recommended that they let the cheese melt on the bread as it would have provided some form of cohesion in textures and flavour. Still, better than Denny's. That is all.

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