It’s an unforgivable schmear.
Mayoral frontrunner Andrew Cuomo found himself in a pickle after he mixed up the name of New York City’s classic bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich during a puzzling question-and-answer session.
The former governor botched his response to an inquiry about his favorite breakfast choice and even admitted that he prefers English muffins over bagels – a statement that left New Yorkers sizzling like a bodega grill.
“Bacon, cheese, and egg on an English muffin, and then I try to remove the bacon, but I don’t really remove the bacon,” Cuomo told the New York Times in an interview on Tuesday, muddling the order of ingredients of the Big Apple breakfast staple.
“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.
“It confirms so much of what we feared about Andrew Cuomo, not just that he doesn’t know how to order a bacon, egg and cheese, but also the fact that this is a man who New York City has been something he’s understood more through his television screen than actually by walking the streets, and we’ve seen that over the course of this campaign, he seems to be afraid of the city,” Mamdani said. “He spends his time between his car and his $8,000 a month apartment in Midtown, and we don’t ever know when we’re going to see him, other than when it’s legally required of him to be present.”
The man Cuomo is running to replace — Mayor Eric Adams — has also been toasted by critics over some eccentric breakfast preferences.
Adams told the Jewish publication Forward that he no longer eats bagels because of his diabetes — and has replaced them with something akin to rabbit food.
“I loved a good cinnamon raisin bagel with cream cheese, and now I make my own bread with flaxseed and vegan cheese,” he said.
Adams, who claims to be vegan, has been semi-regularly posting his breakfast smoothie concoctions, such as one with blueberries, romaine lettuce, avocado, cacao powder and green tea — a combination that prompted one X user to respond: “Dude what the f–k.”
Besides the breakfast brouhaha, Cuomo’s interview with the Gray Lady provided ample fodder for his opponents’ accusations that he’s an out-of-touch carpetbagger.
The Queens native acknowledged that he hadn’t lived in the city since he was “32-ish,” which would be in roughly 1990.
Cuomo signed the lease on his East 54th Street apartment in December 2023 and started living in it full-time during fall 2024, his reps have said.
Cuomo’s campaign didn’t respond to The Post’s request that he explain his breakfast order.
