According to a survey by YouGov and Warburtons, 50% of respondents who eat boiled eggs with toast in the North West of England slice open their eggs at breakfast time. Social psychologist Dr Sandra Wheatley says this indicates they are more likely to be feeling precise and considered than their more spontaneous and carefree friends, colleagues or family members, who prefer to smash open the top of their egg.’ So which are you: a slicer or a smasher?

Smash..

Nuff said.....


DaveA

I am a Big Endian.

DOWN WITH LILLIPUTIANS!!!!!!!

Neither - I hate boiled eggs!

So what does that say about me??????

:-)

You mean and egg in its shell right? I have never seen someone slice one. We always smash them. :)

I will resist the obvious colonial
stereotype at this point {GRIN}

DaveA

Even more interesting! So "boiled eggs" to describe the egg you put in hot water for three minutes or so and then eat by dipping toast into it is a term only used in the UK?

Give me some other names please or is it just a British gastronomic delight?

3-minute or 'soft boiled eggs' I have heard of, but never eaten. Only ever had 'hard boiled', which is boiled for about 10 minutes until the yolk sets up.

Is it like having a sunny side up fried egg as far as the yolk goes? I like dipping toast in those. Yummy!

I know that one of my kids'programs is produced in England and they had special little egg stands. (They weren't eating eggs, they were growing herbs in an egg shell...) I'm guessing that is what those are for then?