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[vic mcclymont]

Listening to ken Bruce on Radio 2 this morning, he read out a letter from a listener.

This woman was eating a salad, and one of the ingredients was a boiled egg.
She observed her sons girlfriend watching her, eventually the girlfriend inquired about the egg.
Mum said its a boiled egg, the girlfriend said ohh -------------------------its a Scotch egg without the sausage!

makes you wonder what went wrong.

[Keith Moody]

reminds me of my wife (canadian) when i first asked her for boiled eggs, they were put on my plate with no egg-cup and were rock solid. she had never had a soft boiled egg and had never used an egg cup. they (in her part of the country) allways boiled them hard and broke them open afterwards and scooped out the egg onto a plate and ate it that way. she has been trying now for 24 years to understand the British way of life (and me!!).
keith moody
R635978

[happy daze john in oz]

Listening to ken Bruce on Radio 2 this morning, he read out a letter from a listener.

This woman was eating a salad, and one of the ingredients was a boiled egg.
She observed her sons girlfriend watching her, eventually the girlfriend inquired about the egg.
Mum said its a boiled egg, the girlfriend said ohh -------------------------its a Scotch egg without the sausage!

makes you wonder what went wrong.

Like a Scotsman with nothing under his kilt!

[john sutton]

I seem to remember that when I lived in Germany a boiled egg was served with a glass and the egg was broken open and tipped into the glass with butter and salt and pepper and mashed up
delicious

[Colin Pook]

eggzactly the way I like them
Colin

[robpage]

I have vague memories from Union Castle about the Dropped Egg in a Glass that was served at Breakfast , sounds very much like the above , but I thought at the time that the glass was special for that use

[john sutton]

I remember on the Accra when I used to go to the galley they had an egg boiling machine which consisted of a trough of boiling water and a row of metal cups on posts.the waiters used to put an egg in the cup and lower it into the water and there must have a timing device on the post.
do they still have these .last time I saw one was 1950

[robpage]

There was one in teh Engineers duty mess on the Windsor in the1970s