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.

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'.

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

Nope, that's not the question

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

Delicious but snack not brekkie

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?

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.

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

I can't believe people have forgotten shakes head

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!

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

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

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

Can I have yours?

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!

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

I never understood TPTs on toast though 😕

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" 😆

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.

I bought a Jolly Hog Scotch egg for lunch yesterday and it was delicious. It had a lovely runny yolk which would have been a disaster at breakfast time as I'd have almost certainly sleepily dribbled it down my front.

For that reason alone, they are not breakfast items in my home.

Are we talking proper scotch egg with a full boiled egg in the middle or those abominations you buy in the picnic foods aisle beside mini sausage rolls & cocktail sausages with god only knows what in the middle?

A proper scotch egg, freshly made with runny yoke & chips could be an easy tea in this house.

But I'm also partial to a shop bought scotch egg in the afternoon as a snack,

I genuinely don't think I've ever eaten a scotch egg in a picnic situation.

I think I'm not best placed to recognise breakfast items.
Being from Northern Ireland, I love a cooked breakfast for my evening meal only then we call it an Ulster Fry. My English husband thinks I'm a Heathen. I think he doesn't know what he's missing

You need to consider how the other breakfast items might feel, what about the poor boiled egg?

It's the same as gammon egg and chips. This is a breakfast item. Yet it's also a dinner item as well.

Don't even get me started on what's considered Brunch

You can actually make vegan scotch eggs but I wouldn't recommend them!

The deep fried snack is called a Scotch Egg because the process of mincing the meat to go around the egg is known as scotching.

Yes, surely the toast gets unpleasantly soggy? <shudders>

I only use tinned tomatoes in cooking. Wouldn't be without them for that purpose, but if I want tomatoes as a distinct element in a meal I use fresh.