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A scotch egg should be considered a breakfast menu item

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quirkyquerty · 24/10/2024 21:17

It's sausage and egg. How did it end up in the picnic category rather than the breakfast category?

After a long stressful day at work, this is where my mind is at. But I do think I'm right, it should be moved to the breakfast category with immediate effect. Perhaps even pushing avocados out to make room for it.

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WillimNot · 25/10/2024 14:55

Who says it isn't?
You can choose what you eat for breakfast
I ate a cold sweet and sour chicken ball this morning. Yeah it's unhealthy and not considered breakfast, but McDonald's breakfast is just as bad and people eat it every day.

LifeInAHamsterWheel · 25/10/2024 14:50

No I can't imagine ever wanting to have one for breakfast even if it was on the menu!

When I was little my mum gave me a scotch egg and apparently I pulled it apart at my highchair, ate some and left a mess, telling her "I liked the egg but I didn't like the scotch" 😆

AnnPerkins · 25/10/2024 14:47

Westfacing · 25/10/2024 14:23

served with tinned plum tomatoes

Now there's another controversy - on a recent thread there were those questioning whether it was a done thing to have a portion of TPTs on your plate, as opposed them only being part of a sauce/stew.

They took some convincing!

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It was acceptable in the 70s/80s and I still have TPTs with sausages and mash 😋

I never understood TPTs on toast though 😕

Westfacing · 25/10/2024 14:23

AnnPerkins · 25/10/2024 11:44

When I was growing up we used to have homemade scotch eggs served with tinned plum tomatoes and boiled potatoes.

So you're all wrong; scotch eggs are dinner.

Really want some now.

served with tinned plum tomatoes

Now there's another controversy - on a recent thread there were those questioning whether it was a done thing to have a portion of TPTs on your plate, as opposed them only being part of a sauce/stew.

They took some convincing!

FelixtheAardvark · 25/10/2024 14:00

GroovyChick87 · 25/10/2024 13:16

I can't think of anything more unappealing in the morning than a scotch egg.

Can I have yours?

FelixtheAardvark · 25/10/2024 13:59

My view entirely OP. I frequently have 2 for breakfast.

GroovyChick87 · 25/10/2024 13:16

I can't think of anything more unappealing in the morning than a scotch egg.

KnickerlessParsons · 25/10/2024 13:15

Halfblindbunny · 24/10/2024 21:20

Picnic category because it is easily transportable. But I think YABU to label foods anyway without asking them their preferred label first. Maybe some scotch eggs want to be picnic items and some breakfast items

Maybe some food items prefer to be binary: house food or out door food

BuzzieLittleBee · 25/10/2024 13:13

noworklifebalance · 24/10/2024 22:05

Another whoosh - I appreciate I maybe on my own here with my nod to the great scotch egg controversy of 2020.

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Very much not on your own. They are never referred to as just Scotch Eggs in this house. Always as Scotch Eggs - a Substantial Meal.

I can't stand them though. I don't know why because I love sausage and I love egg. And I'll happily eat them together as part of a breakfast or brunch. But I have yet to find a SE that I enjoy. I've tried very hard. I just have a pork pie instead, but that definitely has no place at breakfast!

TheGreatScotchEggControversy · 25/10/2024 13:13

noworklifebalance · 24/10/2024 22:05

Another whoosh - I appreciate I maybe on my own here with my nod to the great scotch egg controversy of 2020.

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I can't believe people have forgotten shakes head

HiccupHorrendousHaddock · 25/10/2024 13:13

SeaToSki · 25/10/2024 13:06

Sorry to derail slightly, but why is a scotch egg Scotch..why not Welsh or Rolled or Breakfast…if it was invented by Fortnum and Mason, why did they choose scotch?

Fortnum and Mason is one possible origin. Scott’s of Whitby is another.

Boiled eggs wrapped in fish, meat, black pudding or whatever crop up all over the place with different names.

They exist in other countries too - they are Bird’s Nests in Belgium

gannett · 25/10/2024 13:06

Breakfast and picnic categories are not mutually exclusive. A scotch egg is in both, as well as in the dinner, lunch, elevenses and random snack categories.

We had leftover Mexican pulled pork the other week and DP turned them into a scotch egg. Heavenly.

SeaToSki · 25/10/2024 13:06

Sorry to derail slightly, but why is a scotch egg Scotch..why not Welsh or Rolled or Breakfast…if it was invented by Fortnum and Mason, why did they choose scotch?

herecomesautumn · 25/10/2024 12:39

Our local butcher does a real Scottish Scotch egg. With Stornoway black pudding instead of sausage

Delicious but snack not brekkie

herecomesautumn · 25/10/2024 12:35

noworklifebalance · 24/10/2024 21:22

The question is… is it a substantial meal?

Nope, that's not the question

ODFOx · 25/10/2024 12:35

And while we're on the subject: a scotch egg with a runny yolk is delicious if served warm.

A cold runny yolk is the devil's yellow semen and must go back out of fashion immediately. Bleurgh

ODFOx · 25/10/2024 12:32

No.

There are no breadcrumbed foods at breakfast. Too dry.
If they could reconfigure the scotch egg to have a rosti or hash brown layer on the outside I'd be right beside you with a banner at the 'scotch egg for breakfast activists' March'.

HiccupHorrendousHaddock · 25/10/2024 11:59

Sausages and eggs are acceptable at all three meals. Full cooked breakfast , sausage rolls or omelettes at lunch, sausage egg and chips for dinner (or sausage and mash, and cheese soufflé with salad)

They aren’t breakfast food because they are every time food. They defy your narrow categories @quirkyquerty , and are lovely at any time.

The Jolly Fisherman in Craster does a kipper Scotch egg, @Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g . It is a thing of wonder. I didn’t even know it I liked kippers.

AnnPerkins · 25/10/2024 11:44

When I was growing up we used to have homemade scotch eggs served with tinned plum tomatoes and boiled potatoes.

So you're all wrong; scotch eggs are dinner.

Really want some now.

StillSmallVoice · 25/10/2024 11:38

@Bjorkdidit leftover pizza is fab for breakfast. Bread, cheese, tomato...yum

DilemmaDelilah · 25/10/2024 11:30

@Gasp0deTheW0nderD0g the smoked haddock scotch egg sounds good! If only I liked eggs...

twentysevendresses · 25/10/2024 09:51

@ThePinkFrenchFancyPlease

🙌🏼 definitely a thing in the 70s (and 80s/90s/00s 😂)

ThePinkFrenchFancyPlease · 25/10/2024 09:41

twentysevendresses · 25/10/2024 08:27

I'd happily eat a scotch egg at any time of day. For me it falls into the same category as trifle 😍 Everyone knows that trifle is great for breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea...or in a portable container at a picnic 😍

I have found my people. The scotch egg and trifle lovers. It’s like my 70s childhood all over again.

Bjorkdidit · 25/10/2024 08:50

thistimelastweek · 24/10/2024 21:29

As a person who has soup for breakfast, I'm firmly in the camp of 'make your own rules'.
(Though I wouldn't have a scotch egg for breakfast. )

This. So far today I've had a piece of brownie and a slice of leftover pizza.

I also wouldn't have a scotch egg at any time because I don't like egg yolk unless it's mushed up in mayonnaise, but I sometimes get a pack of quorn picnic eggs as a late breakfast if I'm out and about somewhere.

And to further pimp up the 'uber scotch egg' my offering is 'uber canape hash browns' which is a hash brown topped with egg mayonnaise with an artfully positioned cocktail sausage garnish.

ZuckketyZuckZuck · 25/10/2024 08:47

ThePinkFrenchFancyPlease · 24/10/2024 21:49

Nope. Egg covered in sausage meat, wrapped in hash brown instead of breadcrumbs. We have invented the uber-Scotch egg.

Any sort of Scotch egg makes an entirely suitable breakfast, and there shall the matter rest.

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That sounds good, but it is missing a layer of batter.