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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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TiredGoingToBed · 24/10/2024 22:14

Can I add that supermarket scotch eggs seem to be universally nasty.

Our local butchers sell some which are a little delicious though.
Expensive too.

MontanaPink · 24/10/2024 22:13

Invented by Fortnum & Mason as a hand held food item for carriage journeys.

Whoknowswhatanymore · 24/10/2024 22:11

@RumNotRun oh yes a warm scotch egg with running yolk takes the whole dish to another level!!

soupfiend · 24/10/2024 22:11

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 got it. I just wanted to say Break Fast

Because in my head I also think about Break wind.

And then I snigger.

But then of course this is an internal dialogue which has no place being bandied about on a breakfast thread.

Kepperson · 24/10/2024 22:10

A lump of dry, hard, cold stuff for breakfast? No.

A friend makes his own, and serves them warm, with a runny yolk. I'd make an exception for that, possibly. I'm not really crazy about sausgemeat though. Actually, I'll just have the egg

pumpkinpam · 24/10/2024 22:10

You are absolutely correct in all you've said but I'd still balk at the idea of having one for breakfast. Why is that?

Very thought provoking indeed.

LilyJessie · 24/10/2024 22:09

@ThePinkFrenchFancyPlease the Uber scotch egg has made me giggle 🤭

BruceAndNosh · 24/10/2024 22:07

quirkyquerty · 24/10/2024 21:26

Yes get them on the breakfast list. You have to choose a current breakfast item to eliminate to make space for them, though

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Beans can go. They don't belong in breakfast although they are perfectly acceptable with sausages and chips for an evening meal.

crumpet · 24/10/2024 22:07

Not cold sausage and egg at breakfast

noworklifebalance · 24/10/2024 22:05

soupfiend · 24/10/2024 21:58

Its enough to break your fast though. Break Fast.

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

soupfiend · 24/10/2024 21:58

noworklifebalance · 24/10/2024 21:22

The question is… is it a substantial meal?

Its enough to break your fast though. Break Fast.

soupfiend · 24/10/2024 21:57

Hollowvoice · 24/10/2024 21:22

It fits both breakfast and picnic. And also snack.

So one for breakfast, one for mid morning snack, then one at an afternoon picnic?

Sounds right to me.

ThePinkFrenchFancyPlease · 24/10/2024 21:49

Eastl · 24/10/2024 21:37

Ooh! Egg covered in hash brown then sausage meat and then breadcrumbs ala scotch egg. I think you’ve just discovered a new classic!

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.

ForPearlViper · 24/10/2024 21:48

I would eat all the components of a scotch egg in a full English (but not if beans had touched them). Whilst I see the attraction of mixing it together in this way for other people, there is no way on this this planet I would eat a scotch egg with all the delicious bits of a full English whizzed up and touching each other. I accept that I will be judged and that's before you know the full extent of my food combination taboos.

However, scotch eggs - acceptable as a breakfast food for those that like then due to the components. Sausage rolls - madness. Sausage one type of breakfast, pastry a completely different type of breakfast. The two might be acceptable as two separate courses at breakfast if the pasty was sweet.

Hoosemover · 24/10/2024 21:47

No “pigs in blankets “ for your Christmas dinner then?

scotch eggs definitely not a breakfast. Think of them like Cornish pasties

RumNotRun · 24/10/2024 21:43

A pub in the New Forest does a scotch egg which I think was venison with a duck's egg inside, served warm. The egg was perfectly soft boiled so when you cut into the posh scotch egg the yolk went over the meat and breadcrumbs and made it the food of the gods.

SallyForf · 24/10/2024 21:40

DollopOfFun · 24/10/2024 21:37

Too much heft. It's a hefty food item, particularly if homemade. My own attempts at scotch eggs have resulted in sizes more akin to safety headwear rather than 'snack'.

Baby's head proportions? 😍

Eastl · 24/10/2024 21:38

And yes dollop mine too are enormous and escape from their sausage enrobement. A culinary challenge.

Eastl · 24/10/2024 21:37

Ooh! Egg covered in hash brown then sausage meat and then breadcrumbs ala scotch egg. I think you’ve just discovered a new classic!

DollopOfFun · 24/10/2024 21:37

Too much heft. It's a hefty food item, particularly if homemade. My own attempts at scotch eggs have resulted in sizes more akin to safety headwear rather than 'snack'.

Bodeganights · 24/10/2024 21:35

Monsters the lot of you.

Leave my avocado alone.

I dont like scotch eggs so I might be a teeny tiny bit biased. But ya can punt them to the moon whatever meal they are.

Will now admit I never eat breakfast and go hide behind the sofa away from the fighting but keeping my avocados close.

JohnSt1 · 24/10/2024 21:35

I like chips for breakfast.

Balloonhearts · 24/10/2024 21:33

I think it should be allowed to identify however it wants and its discrimination to say it can't be on the breakfast buffet. And don't deadname it.

IGotBigKidsAndICannotLie · 24/10/2024 21:33

I'm going to say, if you have it warm it's a breakfast food. If you have it cold, it's for picnic. The end.

choppolata · 24/10/2024 21:32

Vegan here - I demand a scotch avocado!!

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