NYC mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo has been blasted online over his breakfast order after confessing he preferred an English muffin to a bagel in a new interview.
Cuomo ignited harsh criticism after he was asked ‘what is your bagel order or favorite breakfast sandwich?’ as he answered 10 questions for the New York Times.
He candidly admitted: ‘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.
‘The bagel I try to stay away from, to keep my girlish figure.’
The Democrat, 67, is attempting to make a political comeback after his resignation from office in 2021 following a slew of sexual harassment allegations, all of which he has denied.
Yet, the controversial breakfast order may have foiled his chances as New Yorkers have dished out relentless disapproval of his brave admission.
‘I have never seen my Jewish father so distraught as when he read that Andrew Cuomo’s bagel order is an English muffin,’ one said.
Another said: ‘I don’t understand how you don’t have a normal answer to “what kind of bagel do you like” when YOU’RE RUNNING FOR MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY.’
To which one user responded: ‘To be fair, his favorite borough is Westchester.’
‘Answering the question of what’s your bagel order with “English muffin” as not only a New Yorker but a candidate for the MAYOR of NYC is DIABOLICAL,’ one user commented.
Cuomo’s phrasing while answering the question also has many doubtful of his New York ties.
‘Cuomo saying “Bacon, cheese and egg” and not “Bacon, egg and cheese” shows his true colors,’ one said. ‘Guy is a psychopath.’
‘Saying “bacon, cheese and egg” instead of baconeggancheese is not only disqualifying for Mayor but should result in deportation from the entire tri-state area,’ another harshly suggested.
‘The way my brain immediately autocorrected it to bacon, egg and cheese so I didn’t see the problem until “girlish figure,”‘ another wrote.
‘He’s not winning any NYC office with that kind of information out in the public.’
‘Nowwwwww Y would this man destroy his chance to win, Lol this is a sin to most of us NEW YORKERS.’
‘This will probably lose him more voters than the sexual harassment and aged care home deaths.’
However it wasn’t only left to the public to rip the hopeful Mayor to shreds for the ‘diabolical’ order.
City Councilwoman Joann Ariola posted on X: ‘Honestly, calling it a “bacon, cheese and egg” instead of a bacon egg and cheese should be a disqualifying offense.’
Zohran Mamdani, polling second behind Cuomo in the Democratic Party primary for the mayoral position, chimed in on the breakfast order at a 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,’ Mamdani said, the New York Post reported.
‘And we’ve seen that over the course of this campaign, he seems to be afraid of the city.
‘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.’
But Cuomo is not the first to to have sacrilegious New York food tendencies, as one commenter wrote: ‘I mean NYC did elect a mayor who ate pizza with a fork and knife.’
Former Mayor Bill de Blasio caused a major stir across the five boroughs when he used utensils to chow down on a New York slice in 2014.
A photograph of de Blasio using utensils spread across Twitter and prompted mock outrage among New Yorkers on blogs and news sites.
Responding to the pizza palaver, de Blasio defended the approach, saying that his Italian ancestry is behind his decidedly un-New York pizza-eating style.
The 2025 primary election in the heavily blue-leaning Big Apple is scheduled for June 24.
Despite the food faux pas, Cuomo remains favored to win, though socialist Mamdani has been gaining.
New York City uses ranked choice voting which could end up deciding who takes on Republican Curtis Sliwa and incumbent Eric Adams running as an independent in November.