A scotch egg should be considered a breakfast menu item

[quirkyquerty]

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.

Baby's head proportions? 😍

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Sounds right to me.

Its enough to break your fast though. Break Fast.

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

Not cold sausage and egg at breakfast

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

@ThePinkFrenchFancyPlease the Uber scotch egg has made me giggle 🤭

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

If it is in a bowl with milk and sugar on it, it is a breakfast item.

If it is rolling about on a plate whilst you are sat on a red gingham table cloth on some grass, then it is a picnic item.

These are the ONLY two possibilities - and I know a thing or two about food (ffs).

But it's cold. Anything meat or egg related on a breakfast is meant to be hot. For me it's a snack.
I guess if you cut it into slices and fried or grilled it, then put in in a toastie? Then it could be a breakfast!

Ooh, interesting. I'd never thought of it like that but I like it

Well I was about to go to bed but now DH and I are having an argument about this. I’m team scotch egg breakfast, he’s not.

so there goes Friday I guess

I feel that I might be making some at the weekend, this time I’m not bothering with the breadcrumbs, they can have roasted sausage crust instead.

I’ve eaten scotch eggs for breakfast, food categories and rules don’t exist in my mind. Food is fuel, eat whatever you want, whenever you want, it all does the same thing and ends up in the same place!

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

You are most definitely not on your own. I came here purely to post what my son (who's only 12!) and I routinely say to each other whenever scotch eggs are mentioned or bought (especially as part of a meal deal), "that's a full meal in itself."

I believe it was an effort by the pubs to ensure they could serve alcohol as part of serving 'substantial meals'.

I actually find a scotch egg quite a filling breakfast! Compact but quite high in protein.