My friend Craig and I ordered the Scotch Eggs at the Lafayette Brewing Company yesterday. One look at the menu and we knew we had to. We ordered the Scotch Eggs because we liked what we read about them, and because we'd never had hard boiled eggs wrapped in sausage and coated in breadcrumbs. The fact that they were deep-fried didn't make us hesitate at all when the waitress took our order:
Waitress: Have you decided?
Nate and Craig (in unison): Scotch Eggs, please!
W (horrified): Um, ok. You know that they're sausage wrapped eggs, right?
N & C: Scotch Eggs, please!
W: And deep fried?
N & C: SCOTCH. EGGS. PLEASE.
W (shrugging): Whatever. It's your funeral.
Across the table our wives tsk-ed and cast looks of profound disapproval. Twice Craig's wife, Jessica, commented on how delicious she thought the garden salad sounded, but our resolve was not to be tested on this day. Craig and I took deep draughts of our handcrafted ales and sat back in silence, hands clasped beneath the table and privately bracing for the arrival of Scotch eggs.
And arrive they did, sausage-wrapped and deep-fried as promised, and positively sweating hot oil.
They were quartered for easy handling, and we dove right in, squealing with the delight of a pig who, amid the refuse and scraps in its trough, discovers a Scotch Egg.
All that remained, 14 seconds later, were a few breadcrumbs drowning in a pool of brown grease. Delicious? Yes. Deadly? Almost certainly. How much shame do we feel at having devoured a couple of sausage-wrapped, deep-fried Scotch Eggs? About as much as we will next time when we order the Bavarian Beer Nuggets.nwb
6 comments:
Proof that delicious food always comes wrapped in bacon.
Hey! If you're going to slander me, leave the garden salad out of it. As I recall, I consumed roughly an entire tub of cream cheese mowing through the spinach dip.
At around the five hour mark of my journey back to Cleveland, I thought, "I'm not going back there for a mere weekend. The drive is too long." Thank you for reminding me of the Bavarian Beer Nuggets, which would be worth 11 hours of driving in one day.
- Your fat comrade
Those sound delicious. I bet they would have been even better dipped in mayonnaise.
MPF
Josh: absolutely
Jessica: don't try to defend yourself after ordering a side of cottage cheese and a Diet Pepsi.
Anonymous: The BBNs are waiting.
MPF: fuck you
Scotch eggs -- good, but once was enough for me. I stick to the jalapeno/potato/cheese nuggets there.
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