Back when I were a lad eggs were a staple food dished up daily in a variety of fashions, fried, coddled, scrambled, boiled or poached and promoted in a series of TV ads featuring Tony Hancock using the slogan "Go To Work On An Egg".
(Soz 9 minutes, could not find a shorter one).
Then along came Edwina Currie (Conservative fornicator of UK X-Premier John Major) of the great salmonella in eggs debacle in the 1980s. In 1988 Mrs Currie, then a junior health minister, said most egg production in Britain was (were?) infected with salmonella. Although forced to resign the damage had been done, now eggs were deemed "a bad thing" and the press loved to remind us every now and again
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1410244/Salmonella-in-eggs-warning.html 2002
In 2007 the UK Advertising Standards Authority, keen to jump on the bansturbation bandwaggon, decided that
"'Go to Work on an Egg' was far too dangerous for modern-day audiences.
The Advertising Watchdog banned the catchphrase, claiming it "fails to promote a varied and balanced diet." and we were all gonna die from salmonela, hysteria, listeria, wysteria whatever they could think of next to promote their own self importance and forbade the egg industry from reissuing the old slogan.
Fast forward to 2010 and it sems that "You can now go to work on an egg every day", scientists say.
"Eggs have an "insignificant" affect on people's cholesterol, according to scientists, who are now recommending that most people can eat as many eggs as they want".
Not satisfied with that
Eggs are the new Super Food
"According to a latest report, eggs should be considered a ‘superfood’, for their ability to improve health and help in dealing with obesity too.
Eggs are one of the most nutrient-rich foods available and people should be consuming at least one egg a day to fetch good results. ‘Nutrition & Food Science’ will publish the study in June".
Thanks guys, I think my old Mum knew that and my Grandma, and countless generations of my ancestors since they domesticated wildfowl.
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9 comments:
When (if ever) will Politicians of all stripes learn to keep their big gobs shut about things they know fuck-all about ?
They could soon be one of the few things that New York restaurants can offer thanks to ludicrous proposals to ban the use of salt in cooking.
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/local_news/new_york_state/chefs-call-proposed-new-york-salt-ban-absurd-20100310-akd (Thanks to LegIron)
But also remember that your "Free Range" egg may not be:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article7058474.ece
It's getting beyond a yolk....
Don't get me started on them mucking about with salt, the twats; suffice to say that I took not the slightest notice about them poncing on about the supposed evils of egg yet here I am, eager to tell the tale.
It might take a few years, but what's the likely hood of a law suit being brought against these health Nazis, by an American suffering ill health due to LACK of salt in his diet?
Leg Iron pointed out that it's essential, and too little can be just as bad (or even worse) than too much....
On the subject of good diet, everybody's got to have a hobby, it seems. Growing yourself isn't my choice, but it takes all sorts...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1257850/Super-sized-mother-determined-worlds-fattest-woman-years.html
And what, pray, is this disgusting blob going to do when she's achieved her aim? Stop eating for a year until she gets back to a reasonable weight? Or remain as a virtually immobile drain on everybody else?
Sure it takes all sorts, but is being the worlds heaviest person really the pinnacle of human achievement?
"she runs a website where men pay her to watch her eat fast food." - Words fail me......
I love eggs. Everything they say is bad for you, we have been eating and doing for YEARS, and our parents and grandparents before us.
I wish these jerks would just STUF and go suck
on an egg!
I think I"ll buy some dye and color them all pretty for Easter this year, since I have time on my hands...then I'll make a yummy egg salad, or deviled eggs with crabmeat, yummy ;-)
Maggie Thatcher ate 8 eggs a day and that's why she never had to go for a shite. When Gorbachov was bursting for a crap and the negotiations were at a crucial stage, Maggie could sit there with a contented smile on her face knowing that she was egg-bound, while Gorby had to give in to her demands quickly to get to the bog. Honest.
Redused to toilet humour DL? Made oi larf.
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