Free Breakfast Everywhere...but Nothing Good to Eat.

For the next two days, you can pretty much eat breakfast for free.

At McDonald's on Thursday and Friday (Feb. 28-29) with the purchase of a medium or large beverage you will get a new McSkillet for FREE. The McSkillet, is an interesting breakfast burrito creation.

This "spicy" burrito combines scrambled eggs, sausage, skillet potatoes, a cheese medley, roasted red and green bell peppers, onions and salsa in a flour tortilla. This sounds much scarier than fried chicken for breakfast at Chick-Fil-A. Am I going to go try it? Yes. Why? Because it's virtually free. The retail value of this item is about $2.49, so it's worth the medium drink to get a taste of this unusual breakfast item. At first glance, I'm thinking it probably is going to taste very odd. I have mixed feelings about fast food breakfast as it is, and the thought of eating an attempt at mexican food from McDonald's is even more horrifying.

More interesting to discuss is why the heck is everyone giving away free or extremely cheap food? Without much analysis, we can guess it's some how related to the fact that gas costs about $3.13 a gallon and no one wants to pay to go out any more. In the past week, you could have gotten:

- 99 cent latte from Dunkin Donuts
- Free McSkillets on two mornings
- Don't forget the Free Chicken Biscuit from Chick-Fil-A on Friday morning

At this rate, by the time summer rolls around we will be eating breakfast, lunch and dinner for free at least 3 times a week. I'm not complaining. To accomplish the ultimate and take full advantage of these promotions, I highly recommend going to McDonald's on Friday morning to buy your drink and get your free McSkillet and then head over to Chick-Fil-A to pick up your free Chicken Biscuit.

The unfortunate part about all of these promotions is that chances are everyone who gets a free breakfast item this week probably won't come back to buy one. I mean, in theory you could get two McSkillet's for the price of a large coffee drink at Starbucks. Since Starbucks retrained all of their employees though, and we know the drinks must taste better - wouldn't you rather spend your money there?

My only wish, is that we could get really amazing food for free. Wouldn't it be a wonderful world if Chick-Fil-A passed out chicken sandwiches, or Chipotle gave out burritos or McDonald's gave away their iced coffee? One day if the price of gas keeps getting higher and people stop going out more and more, it will happen.