The Incredible Edible Egg

I was watching a show on PBS about breakfast restaurants. They were asking people why they had picked a particular restaurant as their favorite. One patron said that they picked a particular establishment because they had the best Scotch egg in town. I had never heard of such a thing and I really like eggs. I wondered, almost out loud, "What's a Scotch egg?" Seeming to sense my interest and confusion the TV program began explaining exactly what it is. Basically it's a hard-boiled egg (minus the shell) covered with cooked ground sausage, dipped into an egg bath, breaded, and then fried. Doesn't that sound amazing!? A new quest begins...

A few days passed and I was taking a QuikTrip customer survey. One question listed a few possible new items for the QT rollers and asked if offered how likely it would be for me to purchase them. I was surprised to read that one of the items was a Scotch egg. This prospect was both exciting and distressing. I was excited because that would make finding one very convenient but distressed because I did not want my first Scotch egg to come from a gas station. I was sharing my plight with a couple my wife and I were eating dinner with and the wife said that she has had a Scotch egg, and not only has she had one, she knows how to make them as well. She later made some for us and they were delicious (either hot or cold).

Now having seen what they looked like on the show and in person, I wonder how QT is going to have them on the rollers. All the foods on the rollers are cylindrical. How could they make a Scotch egg that would be compatible with the existing rollers in the store? Hot dogs, hamburgers, and even the buffalo wings can be pressed into pretty much any shape. A hard-boiled egg is another story all together. I remember an urban legend about KFC genetically engineering "chickens" to cut labor and cost. Is there a possibility that QT Labs has a sophisticated genetics department? This group of elite scientists would surely be able to complete the assignment to create a chicken that will lay a cylindrical egg. Of course we know that this is pure madness...or is it? What if the hot dogs, hamburgers, and buffalo wings are not pressed into cylinders; but meat from cylindrical live stock?