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on the side · NYBacon, egg and cheese

also: BEC · baconeggandcheese · bodega sandwich

On a roll, salt pepper ketchup, and the order is said as one word.

Bacon, fried or scrambled egg and cheese on bread — in New York City, on a kaiser roll. About 20 grams of fat and 350 calories in a typical one.

The story Cited · wp-bacon-egg-and-cheese-sandwich

The sandwich is common across the United States and Canada and culturally particular to New York, where the deli, the bodega and the corner coffee shop all make it to order and wrap it in foil and paper. It is abbreviated BEC in print and said as a single word at the counter.

Today Inference

Where the sandwich is the business, the donut is the impulse buy beside the register rather than the reason anyone came in.

The particulars

coursebreakfast
stateNY
regionNew York City
confidencehigh · updated 2026-09-16

Who it runs with

stylesThe New York corner counterThe counter it anchors.and of this page it says: The sandwich that pays the rent.artThe Anthora cupWhat the coffee comes in.and of this page it says: What it comes with.storiesThe counterWhat else is in the case, by region.and of this page it says: New York.

Who talks about it

stories · on this pageWhy the egg rollsThe New York version.

Where we got it

Where it came from: Cited a source we name · Harvested pulled from an open dataset · Tradition what the tradition says, hedged · Inference this project's reasoning · Field somebody stood there. This record as JSON.

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