Get a McDonald's breakfast sandwich for $1 on Sunday for Egg McMuffin Day. How to redeem.

With the Oscars close astir the corner, fans whitethorn privation to commencement the time with a meal treat.

McDonald's is offering Egg McMuffins and Sausage McMuffins with Egg for conscionable $1 connected Sunday, erstwhile ordered done the McDonald's app. Deemed Egg McMuffin Day, the solemnisation honors the meal sandwich's 50th anniversary.

As some nutrient chains person announced surcharges to items containing eggs, owed to the nationwide ovum shortage, McDonald's promised prices volition not rise.

"Unlike others making quality recently, you decidedly won't spot McDonald's USA issuing surcharges connected eggs, which are 100% cage-free and sourced successful the U.S," McDonald's Chief Impact Officer Michael Gonda wrote successful a LinkedIn post connected Tuesday.

Who 'invented' the Egg McMuffin?

Herb Peterson, a McDonald's franchisee successful Santa Barbara, California, is the brains down the Egg McMuffin, introduced successful 1975. Herb, according to a quality release, presented a to-go mentation of the Eggs Benedict to Ray Kroc, the businessman who transformed McDonald's into what folks cognize it arsenic today.

"When I watched my begetter present this thought to Ray Kroc, we could not person anticipated it would go the instauration for the renowned McDonald’s meal menu," David Peterson, Herb's lad and McDonald’s proprietor and operator, said successful a quality release. "It’s been singular to spot people embrace this innovation implicit the past 5 decades, and present we get to stock that practice with a caller procreation of meal fans."

How galore calories does the Egg McMuffin have?

The Egg McMuffin, made with an English Muffin, egg, Canadian Bacon, American cheese, salted food and clarified butter, is 310 calories.

Other McDonald's deals, promotions

$1 Egg McMuffins isn't the lone woody McDonald's is offering this month. Here are different deals and caller paper items customers tin expect:

• BOGO Sausage McMuffin with Egg: Redeem a buy-one-get-one-free Sausage McMuffin with Egg erstwhile ordering transportation done the McDonald's app betwixt March 3-30

• Bagels: Bagel sandwiches are present disposable astatine McDonald's locations nationwide

• Krispy Kreme: Krispy Kreme Doughnuts are disposable astatine New York McDonald's locations

Contributing: Anthony Robledo, USA TODAY

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