Pickled Eggs!?

[apprentice87]

Hi All,

Was just talking to my [much younger!!] other half earlier about the 1970's I said that they had proper chip shops, [unlike all this kebab junk] but although they did still funny things like pickled eggs.

Now, all chip shops had a jar of these, but they just reminded me of the sort of thing you would see in the science department in school, 50 year old jars of strange things in formalin.

Did anyone actually eat pickled eggs????

john!!

 

[kerching]

They still have them around here!

strangely the level of eggs in the jar never seems to change....i wonder why?

 

[ProDave]

A friend of my wife's still pickles her own eggs.

 

[Steve3948]

Loved a pickled egg with a packet of Walkers cheese and onion crisps and a pint in the local.

 

[steptoe]

yer, used to have regular pickled egg eating comps in the local in NI,

see how many you could eat without taking a drink.! 

Im not a fan of them tbh.

 

[OnOff]

Each to their own but maybe not for me. Grew up the same wondering "who" ate them when down the chippy. The thing is, nobody I knew did!

Onions YES, but eggs, I think I'd approach tasting one with some trepidation! I've read they're supposed to be CRUNCHY? How does that work then?

 

[Manator]

I have never eaten a 'crunchy' one. I love them and pickle my own duck eggs. I also like pickled walnuts and of course onions.

 

[steptoe]

Each to their own but maybe not for me. Grew up the same wondering "who" ate them when down the chippy. The thing is, nobody I knew did!

Onions YES, but eggs, I think I'd approach tasting one with some trepidation! I've read they're supposed to be CRUNCHY? How does that work then?

that would be scotch eggs maybe  :C

 

[OnOff]

that would be scotch eggs maybe  :C

Maybe the process makes them go hard or something? Reckon it'll be a long time before I try one anyway, deffo not one for the bucket list!

But Scotch Eggs, now you're talking. Proper grub. Not the nancy little ones in the supermarket pre-packs but dirty great things with an 1" of decent sausage meat. Best thing to come out of Jockland aside from the road home!  :lol:  

 

[ProDave]

 Best thing to come out of Jockland aside from the road home!   :lol:  

:red card  

 

[Evans Electric]

Yes  we had pickled eggs on the counter , also pickled onions in those big jars.   Not seen the eggs for a while.

Also not seen  now is ROE  as in roe & chips .

And if you cross the border here into YamYam Land   ( The Black Country) you get ORANGE chips which are really nice but give you indigestion later.  A sort of ORANGE coloured film on them , no idea what it is .    Don't get them in Brum .  

 

[Evans Electric]

Apprentice87   you have now reminded me of the burgers we used to get 1000yrs ago before  the Macs took over .  There was another chain who were blown away by Macs .    But the best burgers were in the long off , more innocent days of the expresso coffee bars in the 60s.    Much tastier than the Mac things .

Great meeting place for teenagers back then , a burger , expresso coffee , coke, milk shake , all your mates and the local girls there jiving to the latest hits from Elvis,  singing about the "Girl of his Best Friend"      Eddie Cochran was having  "Summertime Blues"  .....  Chuck Berry  was ""Rolling over with Beethoven"  Buddy Holly had left us  and Ricky Nelson  was yearning after " Marylou"   .

Ah yes , dive in there after night school ...nice times

 

[OnOff]

:red card

Now look I'm not on the least bit racist, I in fact have relatives in Glagow. Nor do I wish to cast aspertions as to the Scotch character. BTW did I mention that two are dead from alcohol related illness (one actually built a still) and yet another has served time for various offences including cocaine dealing. As  say, LOVELY people!

Moving on, this morning as a favour to one of the Glasgow lads on my Capri forum I spent some time under my old wreck of a "donor" Capri removing the headlamp relay from a 1976 MK2 - it being on the early ones a bit different from later Bosch units so a tad rare. I will be posting this to him tomorrow FREE OF CHARGE (I think that bit has taken him back a bit). Karma and all that - I figure it might keep him from visiting to say thanks. Of course it's still got to get there and run the gamut of the no doubt thieving b'stards in the Scottish postal service, all sitting there sniffing the envelopes for granny's perfume just in case there's a tenner in there for wee Hamish's birthday!





Maybe I'll enclose a pickled egg with it and they can chuck the deep fried "insert any foodstuff inc vegetables here".

:lol:

 

[Evans Electric]

OMG!  its a Lucas part !    Another massive employer in this area....now long gone and the Great King Street works turned into apartments. 

 

[OnOff]

OMG!  its a Lucas part !    Another massive employer in this area....now long gone and the Great King Street works turned into apartments. 

Sad too, to think that the car this came from was built in Halewood. Then production was moved to Cologne. I'm undecided on whether the Motorcraft/Lucas equipped ones are better / worse than the Bosch models. He must be desperate for the relay as I probably last switched the lights on in about 1987! Then it got vandalised but I hung onto it for sentimental reasons. Proves the "never throw anything away" ethos!

I then had company cars for 20+ years and by chance / on a whim bought a later shell which I'm making into a MK2 look a like by changing the front end and using some bits off of the wrecked "donor". Got a 205 block 2.0L Pinto from it but fancy a V6 or something a bit exotic......maybe a red top from a Vauxhall? Then I got another Capri GIVEN to me!

One lad up in Barry, Welsh Wales has shoved an RX-7 engine in his Capri. Sounds like all hell breaking loose! Lives on a concrete jungle estate and gets loads of complaints! Here's the vid:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150889499829815&notif_t=video_comment

How did this thread stray so far?  :coat

 

[Evans Electric]

Theres something about the Capri , I liked them .  Years ago my partner's wife had one which I'd use to get home from the office if he needed the transit .

 

[apprentice87]

I had one too!! a Three litre one!! Anyway, about thirty miles from here, is a little village i know well, Easter compton. There is a bloke near there must like capri's as there are always a pile of the things, scrappers by the look of them, outside his house. Must have about 5 of the things!!

john..

 

[kerching]

Me?

1600 XL Mk II in starburst silver.   Total babe magnet whilst at Uni in the 70s

took a very very nice young physiotherapy student  lass to a curry house in Ardwick.  Stopped outside, bloke rushed out, vomitted all over my bonnet, wiped the residue away with his sleeve.  Went back into the curry house and carried on eating. He did apologise for giving me a bonnet pizza.

you dont see manners like that nowadays

just reminiscing..........

 

[OnOff]

Went to pick a girl up one night aged about 18. Parked with the nose against some communal garages at the bottom of her hill. Rang the doorbell ushered her to the car and held the door open for her. Jumped in and **** IT! NO REVERSE!

The clip on the external linkage rods of the gearbox had come off! Spent the next 20 mins scrabbling about in the gutter for lump of wire for a temporary fix!

Not the best start to a date! Mind she WAS luvverly and forgiving!

 

[SLIPSHOD & SLAPDASH]

We stumbled out the pub very late one night and stopped off in the local all in one chippy/kebab/chinese, but they only had the scraps left so my mate had a pickled egg kebab made with 6 eggs ,as thats all they had. Glad i wasnt with him the next day.