Andrew Cuomo scrambles bacon, cheese and egg order in awkward breakfast Q&A, baffling NYers: Should be a disqualifying offense

It’s an unforgivable schmear.Mayoral frontrunner Andrew Cuomo had egg on his face after he scrambled the name of New York City’s iconic bacon, egg and cheese sandwich during a head-scratching Q&A.The former governor made a hash of his answer to a question about his go-to breakfast order and even confessed that he prefers English muffins over bagels – a revelation that had New Yorkers hotter than a bodega grill.“Bacon, cheese and egg on an English muffin, and then I try to take off the bacon, but I don’t really take off the bacon,” Cuomo told the New York Times in an interview Tuesday, bungling the order of ingredients of the Big Apple breakfast bulwark.“The bagel I try to stay away from, to keep my girlish figure.”Self-respecting New Yorkers — who know the order is always bacon first, egg second and cheese third — mocked Cuomo for his remix, tearing his choice of bread a whole new set of nooks and crannies.Manhattanite Juan Concepción, 34, couldn’t bialy-lieve Cuomo’s response as the candidate seemed to be groping for an answer.“It was a muffin, then he says it’s a bagel.Then he took off the bacon, so it’s an egg and cheese muffin,” he said.

“At least he’s trying to be healthy.”When read the order, employees at Jimbo’s Hamburger Place laughed out loud.“It seems funny,” said Kemo, 50, an employee at the burger joint along First Avenue near Cuomo’s pad.Cuomo’s comments didn’t go over-easy on social media, either.City Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens) gave it a ruthless review that questioned Cuomo’s New York bona fides.“Honestly, calling it a ‘bacon, cheese and egg’ instead of a bacon egg and cheese should be a disqualifying offense,” she posted on X.“A truly insane thing to say in NYC,” another X user posted.Meanwhile, Zohran Mamdani, who’s polling second behind Cuomo in the Democratic Party primary for mayor, pounced on the breakfast order during an unrelated press conference on Tuesday.“I...