Re: OT: Big Tupperware Sale (Modular Mates)

I'd have to start breakfast over if I had soft-boiled eggs

Me, too, although my eggs would be *very* well done or else I'll have French toast or waffles.

Joan

One of the most interesting things I have witnessed was in Iceland. Our hotel did a gi-normous brekkie, everything you could possibly imagine, buffet style. We discovered the life size quilted hen on the table sat on boiled eggs. If you took one from the tail end, it was hard boiled, breast end, soft boiled. They were not replenished unless all of them were eaten, so how the hell did they contrive that? If I kept soft boiled eggs warm, they would set further. If they chilled them when they took them out of the water, they would not have warmed up under a quilted hen. It was a puzzle. It was far and away the best breakfast we ever had, which was good because the prices were astronomical so we made a point of a big breakfast, then starve until dinner.

Ya know something?? I have never hears od coddled eggs until I came to the USA. We had boiled eggs, fried eggs, poached eggs, scotch eggs etc. never heard of coddled before...and I am 8 generations English!

I can say English scrambled eggsm the way my mother did them is not like the US version. I won't orfer them over here.

It was strange, because a couple of hour ago my son called me (VERY RARE!!). A discussion was going on about eggs. He asked what were the ones I did in Scotland, with shell and a tiny spoon. Obvioulsly boiled eggs. Then he wanted to know what poached eggs were. yup, I made them too. At 44 he was going back many years, and we had to explain that soft-boiled eggs were about the same as boiled eggs, except we had egg-cups and "coffee" spoons. I thought adding soldiers to the equation would be pushing it. Initially, I thought it was about Scotch eggs, which I still love as picnics or salad food.

Gillian

What are Scotch eggs?

Elizabeth

A Scotch egg is a cold, shelled hard-boiled egg which is wrapped in a sausage meat mixture then coated in breadcrumbs and deep-fried. Served cold with salad or taken on picnics.

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I have seen attempts to make the Scotch egg more health conscious by baking it instead of deepfrying. I think the original is better. And at least in Canada, they are sometimes served hot, with fried potatoes alongside.

Dawne

That sounds just lovely!

Elizabeth

Perhaps the answer was as simple as that either your father or mother didn't like them, so they were not served.

Love Scotch Eggs and of course you should have told him to serve soft boiled eggs with soldiers !!

Healthy and Scotch Eggs - surely an oxymoron ! They are terribly rich, I don't recall eating more than a half at any one time.

Not nearly as bad as deep fried Mars Bars though !

My mouth is watering all over the keyboard. That sounds wonderful!!!!

Did you read me as being sarcastic? I really think Scotch eggs would be incredibly good!. Deep fried Mars Bars are over-rated, ime. I'd rather have ice cream.

Elizabeth

They are!

Cheryl

No I didn't think you were being sarcastic ! It really points to sarcasm needing an emoticon (despite the fact I don't like the smiley variety)

Scotch Eggs are very rich, filling etc. - it just made me think of trying deep fried Mars Bars in a fish and chip shop in the UK. Same sort of super rich stuff. I occasionally would make them for parties and cut into quarters to serve.

I'm delighted to say that I've never had a deep fried Mars Bar, nor do I ever want to.

And I'm willing to bet that you've never eaten at Macdonalds or any of the other purveyors of "fast food" - and I use the word "food" in its widest, loosest possible sense

You would lose that bet. I've often eaten at Macdonalds,, but it's not my fave. I like Wendy's better and Burger King used to be pretty good. I adore chocolate candy, with Mars bars coming near the top of the list, but NEVER deep fried. Much too much oil for me. One of the things I miss the most about living in New York were the wonderful hot dog stands and other food carts that sold pretzels and other forms of poisonous, but delicous food.

If I came across as any kind of food snob, that's certainly a misconception. I prefer junk food to real food almost anytime but not fried candy.

I'm old fashioned, to me "fast food" means a fish & chip shop - preferably one that sells steak & kidney puddings with black gravy. About 20 years ago I was persuaded (against my better judgement) to buy a "burger" at Macdonalds in Milton Keynes. Never again - it was a split bread roll with a chunk of mashed meat pushed into it and hermetically sealed in a plastic box so that the steam kept the whole lot warm and made the bread soggy. Like you I'm no food snob but I would much prefer a plate of mince & tatties, a nice stuffed, braised heart or even some tripe & onions. Not terribly fast food but very, very good food. And I've never had the urge to try a deep-fried Mars Bar

I love them..and can definitely eat a whole one!

Gill