Do you eat eggs for breakfast?

[RabidJohn 1,628]

14 hours ago, Otokonoyama said:

There is the full English breakfast. around in one form or another for roughly 700 years. It seems that since the Edwardian period the in ingredients have been standardized to include eggs.

That's a fact, but the full English back then was the province of the upper classes. During WWII the only people who had access to fresh eggs were those who had their own layers; for most eggs were rationed and only available in powdered form, which was generally unpopular. The Egg Marketing Board's campaign came as rationing ended, popularising, for example, the soft-boiled egg with toast 'soldiers' for dipping.

WWII rationing caused other huge changes to the British diet: e.g. the massive West Yorkshire rhubarb-farming industry was decimated due to the shortage of sugar. 

Actually, that could be another daft poll! 'Have you ever tried eating rhubarb without sugar?'

[Akinomaki 39,508]

2 minutes ago, RabidJohn said:

Actually, that could be another daft poll! 'Have you ever tried eating rhubarb without sugar?'

As a child I used to pick a stem of rhubarb that grew plentiful outside and chew on it - really eating is a different matter though

[RabidJohn 1,628]

As a child I remember eating raw rhubarb, but we dipped it in sugar after each bite. No wonder I've got no teeth left!

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/reel/video/p08ngz2r/the-truth-about-eating-eggs

eggs

[Hokkaiko 50]

We still have an old cookbook that says: If you don't have anything else in the house, take 40 eggs ......
That was still the good old time in all houses chickens were normal.

Edited August 18, 2020 by Hokkaiko

[Shinobi Steve 146]

23 hours ago, Hokkaiko said:

We still have an old cookbook that says: If you don't have anything else in the house, take 40 eggs ......
 

That's a lot of eggs! What cuisine is the cookbook based on?

[Jakusotsu 5,725]

4 hours ago, Shinobi Steve said:

What cuisine is the cookbook based on?

Cousin Gus, I guess.

[Jejima 1,300]

On 11/08/2020 at 17:44, RabidJohn said:

In the 1950s when the Egg Marketing Board in the UK started the 'go to work on an egg' campaign.

I thought that this slogan was written by the author Faye Weldon, (she wrote 'The Lives and Loves of a She-Devil'), but it turns out that she only publicised it . However, I have just learned that she did the pen the slogan, 'Vodka gets you drunker quicker'.

 Trivia question....  which famous author came up with the slogan, 'Naughty.... but nice'?

 

[RabidJohn 1,628]

Some might call him infamous... No ayatollahs putting out a kill-on-sight fatwa for the incredibly successful fresh cream advertising slogan either. 

Salman Rushdie, and I didn't even have to Google it.

[Hokkaiko 50]

Shinobi Steve : It is from an old German cookbook, around 1900, printed in Königsberg/Ostpreussen (now Kaliningrad)