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Egg and chips

197 replies

LoisPrice · 09/07/2023 20:07

Is this still a tea time favourite or left in the 1970s?

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Thatnameistaken · 09/07/2023 20:59

Saturday tea staple when I was growing up 👊
It's a rare treat nowadays

DramaAlpaca · 09/07/2023 20:59

It's one of my favourites when DH is away.

WinniFinniHadog · 09/07/2023 21:00

The other one we like in this house is scrambled egg, potato waffles and baked beans. 🤣

After rushing around all day, work, school, after school club. Potato waffles in the toaster, beans in the microwave and scrambled eggs on the hob. Tea done in 6minutes, fruit and yoghurt for dessert then.

EmmaPaella · 09/07/2023 21:02

We never had egg and chips growing up (we had eggs, and we had chips, just to clarify) but I love a vintage easy tea and may make it for the kids this week.

YackyDah · 09/07/2023 21:04

I've not had this in years!

Really want it now with a slice of buttered white bread 😋

Keeponkeepigon · 09/07/2023 21:09

Egg and Chips ♥️

Egg and chips
Chewbecca · 09/07/2023 21:09

Love it and have it roughly once a fortnight. I have beans or mushrooms and roasted tomatoes with usually as, like a PP, gotta have some veg with dinner.

bonzaitree · 09/07/2023 21:11

We had egg, chips and peas for tea this evening and it was so good!

WGACA · 09/07/2023 21:13

Thebigblueballoon · 09/07/2023 20:15

Gorgeous, if the chips and eggs are good quality. Instantly think of Shirley Valentine when I hear it.

Me too!

DaisyUpsy · 09/07/2023 21:13

On my meal planner for this week. We have boring old oven chips though. Not as good as when we were kids and they were done in a deep fat fryer

MadCatLady27 · 09/07/2023 21:15

Egg chips and beans is one of my favourite but sadly OH hates all ingredients and I'm too nervy to fry an egg/too much effort for a solo meal so I don't have it anymore - I'm staying at my parents the night before my wedding, so this may be what I request for dinner 😂

countrygirl99 · 09/07/2023 21:15

Proper comfort food

astarsheis · 09/07/2023 21:16

Don't have it very often but love it when I do...with very good quality tin tomatoes

astarsheis · 09/07/2023 21:18

BlueLiquid · 09/07/2023 20:30

Have never had it.

I like chips, I like eggs. I just don’t see that they go together.

They do...you dip the chips in the egg 😋

UndercoverCop · 09/07/2023 21:18

I will day this quickly then run and hide.
I don't like fried eggs...
So If I have egg and chips they are poached.
There is just something about a fried egg that turns my stomach.
Gammon, poached egg, chips and peas, delicious.

MyEyesAreBleeding · 09/07/2023 21:19

Thebigblueballoon · 09/07/2023 20:17

Well, chips and egg.

Exactly what came to my mind. "chips and frigging egg"

RemusLupinsBiggestGroupie · 09/07/2023 21:21

We had it earlier this week - homemade wedges, fried egg, peas, HP sauce. Delicious! The eggs have to be almost cremated though. I don’t do yolk.

msmatcha · 09/07/2023 21:21

Preferably with beans and white plastic bread and a cup of tea. Oh this might have to go on the menu next week.

BitOutOfPractice · 09/07/2023 21:22

isthewashingdryyet · 09/07/2023 20:15

@LoisPrice sometimes I have egg and chips and himself has chips and egg🙄
makes life much more interesting

I think this is one of the greatest divides in this nation of ours.

LakeTiticaca · 09/07/2023 21:24

It would have to omelette and chips. I don't like fried eggs and runny egg yolks make me want to gag. I can't even look at them 🤮

Lovehearts82 · 09/07/2023 21:25

Add a couple of sausages and beans and 😋

MyEyesAreBleeding · 09/07/2023 21:25

I haven't had it in years and years but if I was I would add crispy bacon. 😋. My husband is an egg hating vegetarian so it's not something he would cook. Gosh remember the old school fried chips. Mmm

HappiDaze · 09/07/2023 21:25

Never had it in my life

Alighttouchonthetiller · 09/07/2023 21:26

I love egg and chips. It always makes me think of Spike Milligan, for whom egg and chips had nigh on mystical powers to restore the strength and the vigour required for soldiering and Doing Things With Ladies.

I must admit that, like a PP, I prefer a poached egg these days.

andjustlikethat1 · 09/07/2023 21:26

I will never have eggs and chips in my life again. The last time I did tragedy struck in my circle ⭕️ with the loss of 4 lives. I feel sadness when I hear of eggs and chips it's strange the things that stick with you about an ordinary day that turned into the worst of my life.