This post is part of Linda G Hill’s Stream of Consciousness Saturday #SoCS. This week’s prompt is butter!
There was a discussion on the radio yesterday about guggy egg. What on earth is that?….I hear some of you ask.
It’s a boiled egg mashed up in a cup with a generous sprinkling of salt and a good big dollop of butter. Not the pretend stuff now…it has to be the real butter!
I never called it guggy egg though. It was just ‘egg in a cup’ in our house.
The first time I heard it being called guggy egg was from my friend Mohotma. I told her, ‘Okayyyyy Mohot, whatever you think’. I assumed it was a word she made up for her children. Y’know…thinking it would make the egg more appetising for them.
It’s surprising the number of parents who are of the belief that giving foods new (weird) names will make their children like them better. (Well, it does work sometimes)
So, I have to say I was surprised when I heard on the radio that hundreds of people eat guggy egg!

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My Scottish grandfather used to make us egg-mashed-up-in-a-cup, as we kids called it then. With butter, salt and lots of white pepper. I have never heard the name guggy egg till now! He was the strong silent type and hard to know, but I will always remember the egg thing.
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It’s amazing the things that stick in our minds, isn’t it.
It’s funny actually….I’ve never put pepper into guggy egg but I NEED it in scrambled eggs. Mmmm….
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Never heard of it 😂 …
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Make this man a guggy egg Mrs Nedser! 🤣
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