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Childhood Food: Chukky Eggs

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LuluBlakey1 · 05/11/2023 19:02

I grew up in the north-east of England, banks of the Tyne near to Newcastle. When I was little - say 3-about 7, I remember my dad used to make me a 'chukky egg' for my tea if my mam was out. It was a slightly soft boiled egg chopped up with salt, pepper and butter and served with hot buttered toast cut into soldiers. It was delicious. My dad used to call me his 'little chukky egg' as well. Not sure if it's a north-east thing. I make them for our DC now and they love them too. For me part of it is the memory of my dad .

Anyone else have a 'chukky egg' for tea? Or any other childhood meals you remember fondly?

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AhBiscuits · 05/11/2023 19:06

I've never had one and had never heard of them until my friend from Glasgow was talking about them, she still eats them all the time.

My dad always used to make Welsh rarebit on toast, which we called Welsh rabbit and requested it every weekend.

blibblibs · 05/11/2023 19:08

We used to get that too but it was called a cuppy egg. We're Scottish, east coast.
I know what I'm having for lunch tomorrow 😋

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LuluBlakey1 · 05/11/2023 19:12

AhBiscuits · 05/11/2023 19:06

I've never had one and had never heard of them until my friend from Glasgow was talking about them, she still eats them all the time.

My dad always used to make Welsh rarebit on toast, which we called Welsh rabbit and requested it every weekend.

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My grandad made this- he cooked a basin of grated cheese in the oven with some onion that had been fried in butter, added worcester sauce and mustard and I think a slosh of beer (?) and then put it on toast under the grill. It was delicious.

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ArseInTheCoOpWindow · 05/11/2023 19:12

Chucky eggs ruled in S.Yorks.

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LuluBlakey1 · 05/11/2023 19:12

blibblibs · 05/11/2023 19:08

We used to get that too but it was called a cuppy egg. We're Scottish, east coast.
I know what I'm having for lunch tomorrow 😋

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It was always chopped up in a cup! I can picture him doing it. 😁

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BellaTheDarkOverlord · 05/11/2023 19:15

Ours was Chukky egg in West Yorkshire but it was a hard boiled egg with the top cut off with a spoon after cracking it. Then either butter bread soldiers or toast buttered soldiers to dip in.

BitOutOfPractice · 05/11/2023 19:15

A Chucky egg on the West Midlands in the 70 was a boiled egg in an egg cup with toast soldiers for dipping. My dad used to stack them up like jenga pieces and say it was the castle. Aww lovely memory of my lovely dad. Thank you

ForfarBridie · 05/11/2023 19:15

We’d have egg’n’a cup in Scotland which was egg as you described it mashed up/chopped up and served in a cup. I still make it and can remember my mum always making it for us when we were poorly. It was delicious and full of love.

Sluj · 05/11/2023 19:15

Yes , chucky eggs in the West Midlands too.
If it was really cold when we got back from school, my Dad used to make us a cup of hot bovril and put a big slice of cheddar on the saucer. Comfort food 🙂

lennonj · 05/11/2023 19:16

We called them chucky eggs too, I think it was just a pet name for any egg dish as we didn’t have them how you describe, from south yorks too.

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LuluBlakey1 · 05/11/2023 19:17

BellaTheDarkOverlord · 05/11/2023 19:15

Ours was Chukky egg in West Yorkshire but it was a hard boiled egg with the top cut off with a spoon after cracking it. Then either butter bread soldiers or toast buttered soldiers to dip in.

We called that a dippy egg. Marmite soldiers. 😁

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Dartmoorcheffy · 05/11/2023 19:17

Chucky eggs in greater Manchester too. I think it derives from the word chook which is chicken.

TwilightSkies · 05/11/2023 19:17

I’m in NI and we called it Chucky egg too

imnottoofussed · 05/11/2023 19:18

Egg in a cup here, north west. I still love them but they take about ten minutes of me peeling the egg and about two seconds for me to demolish

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LuluBlakey1 · 05/11/2023 19:18

DH is from Bradford and claims he didn't have them there. PIL say different.

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ForfarBridie · 05/11/2023 19:20

imnottoofussed · 05/11/2023 19:18

Egg in a cup here, north west. I still love them but they take about ten minutes of me peeling the egg and about two seconds for me to demolish

Just boil it till you are happy with it, put the egg in an egg cup, slice the top of and lift the egg out with your spoon into your cup. Add some butter, chap it up and hey presto.

PokeyLaFarge · 05/11/2023 19:21

LuluBlakey1 · 05/11/2023 19:02

I grew up in the north-east of England, banks of the Tyne near to Newcastle. When I was little - say 3-about 7, I remember my dad used to make me a 'chukky egg' for my tea if my mam was out. It was a slightly soft boiled egg chopped up with salt, pepper and butter and served with hot buttered toast cut into soldiers. It was delicious. My dad used to call me his 'little chukky egg' as well. Not sure if it's a north-east thing. I make them for our DC now and they love them too. For me part of it is the memory of my dad .

Anyone else have a 'chukky egg' for tea? Or any other childhood meals you remember fondly?

My dad did the same 😊💙
I still call it chucky egg 🥚

friskybivalves · 05/11/2023 19:22

Chucky eggs just as you describe in Lancs, growing up in Nelson, and now we make them for our DCs growing up in the SE!

Rainbowshit · 05/11/2023 19:22

Egg in a cup here in Scotland. Loved it!

Hfuhruhurr · 05/11/2023 19:30

It was a game for the Sinclair spectrum in the 80s! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuckie_Egg

Chuckie Egg - Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuckie_Egg

StackBlocks · 05/11/2023 19:34

DH calls what I call Dippy Eggs, Chucky Eggs and we had them today!

Lauren83 · 05/11/2023 19:35

My grandad used to make me this (North West) Chucky egg in a cup it was

Gatekeeper · 05/11/2023 19:40

I'm from N.E England...I always called this 'buttery egg' for my bairns. Cooked soft and chopped up in a ramekin with butter and seved with toast soldiers.

My memory as a child in the '60's was my dear old dad frying 'egg in a window' for me. Slice of white bread with a square cut out and fried with an egg cracked inot the 'window'

Crinkle77 · 05/11/2023 19:41

Chucky eggs in our house were soft boiled eggs with the top cut off and served with soldiers or bread and butter. We never had it chopped up in a cup. I still have chucky eggs today at the age of 45. Mmmm

CeeceeBloomingdale · 05/11/2023 19:42

Also north east. The chucky eggs of my childhood were either soft boiled or coddled.