Death of the Scotch Egg.
As the last egg in Scotland
gets eaten, Timothy Friendship finds out why.
Traditional Scotlish eating
habits have all been put on hold this year as
the now infamous Scotch egg workers' strike continues
in Aberdeen.
Dinner tables across the length
and depth of the land called Scot will continue
to be laid bare if the egg-workers don’t
shake their legs, pull their fingers out and get
their heads down - in a word: stop
their striking.
The workers say the standard
of egg used in the production of the famous deep-fried
bread-crumbed forcemeat/ovarium surprise has dropped
considerably over the last few months. Cheap grey
eggs laid by crows are being used instead of the
traditional eggs of chickens and workers say they’re
not happy about it, not one little bit.
The absolute necessity of the
Scotch egg on Scotchish dinner tables has meant
that Scots people are all getting hungry and have
been for sometime now. Much like the Irish potato
famine on the island of Ireland a while ago, the
repercussions of the great Scotch Egg strike are
being felt all over. Scotland that is.
It’s a fact:
Scotch eggs do not
come from Scotland
Scottish? Low
on Scotch eggs?
Och aye, then
why not follow the Idiotica guide to making your
own?
You
will need:
An egg, whole
An sausage, in a shape
Some bread, crumbed
Fat, one lump of
Get the egg with your hand and
cook it in heated water. Pull the meat out of
the sausage with two fingers and wrap it around
the hot egg. Roll the egg and raw meat concoction
around in some bread's crumbs. Fry deeply in hot
fat till all done all over. Et voila: Scotch egg!
Serving suggestion: don't. |
