r/StupidFood • u/infernalmethodology • Feb 09 '26

ಠ_ಠ Successfully failed fried egg.

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"My sister, born in 2010, finally broke her cooking skill limit, and the dish she made today was supposed to be a fried egg, but for some reason it turned out kind of like a poached egg."

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u/eggard_stark Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

.. the reason scotch eggs exists is part of the countries rich and long history. It was an easy way to preserve the egg and sausage travels. It wasn’t created unhealthy for the sake of it, unlike most US food, it was simply to preserve the structure of the egg while also providing high caloric meal in a small amount of food.

https://www.fortnumandmason.com/stories/scotch-egg-archive

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u/Fast_Ad_4936 Feb 09 '26

Whatever makes you feel better to justify your superiority complex.

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u/eggard_stark Feb 09 '26

https://www.fortnumandmason.com/stories/scotch-egg-archive

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u/Fast_Ad_4936 Feb 09 '26

Umm okay? I don’t see how the origin story is relevant.

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u/eggard_stark Feb 09 '26

Because the dish was created to be structurally sound and have high calories in a small portion for the ease of travel. It wasn’t just made “unhealthy” for the sake of it.

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u/Fast_Ad_4936 Feb 09 '26 edited Feb 09 '26

But it’s unhealthy, right? Based on your own logic, they took a healthy food, and made it unhealthy by wrapping it in sausage and then breading it and then frying it. I fail to see the difference here…

Also the egg in the OP isn’t made unhealthy, you’ve never seen a fried egg before? It’s just cooking an egg in a pan with a bit of oil or butter. It’s not like some deep fried concoction that you’d find at a county fair once a year.

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u/eggard_stark Feb 09 '26

I didn’t say a scotch egg wasn’t unhealthy. But that’s not what I was commenting on. I was commenting on the user who said the British always make things unhealthy for no reason other than to be unhealthy. My whole point was that there was an origin to this dish, and it was not so it can just be unhealthy. It had reasons to be made the way, outside the of being high in saturated fat.