One in four Brits have never boiled an egg
www.standard.co.uk
45% have also never baked a Victoria sponge cake
  • astroturds@startrek.websiteEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t! I only started eating eggs a few weeks ago. I wanted to cut down on the insane amount of oat milk, muesli and oats that I normally consume and all I ever hear is that eggs are amazing for you.

    I’ve been a vegetarian for years so every time someone sees me with eggs they say ‘are you allowed to eat eggs?’ which royally fucks me off. Bitch I’m 40 years old, I can eat whatever the fuck I like.

    • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been mistaken for a vegetarian a few times even though I’m not, and have never claimed to be. I don’t eat pork (no, not religious reasons, just don’t like it) so when I ask for no bacon, sausage, etc people automatically assume I’m a vegetarian. I don’t quite know how they jump to that conclusion.

      I’ve never been big on meats and these days there’s loads to choose from which is non-meat. Given the option I’ll choose plant based.

    • ori@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Not that it matters at all and there is never a need to strictly hold yourself to a dietary rule. The term for a vegetarian that eats eggs and dairy is “Lacoto-ovo vegetarian”

  • OrlandoDoom@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I haven’t

    I never liked eggs, always thought they were gross, smelled like farts.

    I also went vegan like 4 years ago (yes, i absolutely had to tell you) so I don’t think i’ll ever do it. Not sorry.

  • Digestive_Biscuit@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I don’t think I have. I had an allergy to eggs and avoided them most of my life. Got tested a few years back (getting flu vaccines was difficult due to it being cultivated on egg) and turns out it must have been a childhood allergy. I’m now slowing entering the world of eggs.

    I haven’t boiled an egg but I have tried one. The white part was nice but the yolk made me gag. The texture didn’t agree with me.

  • snacks@feddit.ukEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    i stayed at a premier inn a number of years back and they couldn’t boil one of our group an egg. Chef didnt know how. Oh how we laughed. Poor bloke got rinsed

    • ijustlookatpictures@feddit.ukEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I stayed at a premier inn during lockdown and boiled my eggs in the kettle cause the kitchen wasn’t open. I made a whole meal actually. Only disappointment was there was no trouser press to make a toasted sandwich

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
    01·
    1 year ago

    That’s weird - how can 25% of people not have boiled an egg when 55% of them claim to have made a Victoria sponge? Or is it only me who puts boiled eggs in their cake?