I think eggs got their reputation for spoiling easily not because they actually do spoil easily, but because when they (rarely) do go bad, they go very bad indeed.
The thing is, if you have the chickens to have eggs, you have a regular supply of eggs. You’re going to eat them.
In Germany, eggy bread is Arme Ritter , in Finland* köyhät ritarit* - and even in England, it may be called the same - Poor knights (sometimes Poor Knights of Windsor)
Emphasis mine.
Hi; ekedolphin; nice to meet you.
Actually, I’d say my cutoff for breakfast-time would be about 2, 3 o’clock in the afternoon. I would never wait until 6 to have my first meal of the day, though.
See, at that point I’d just call it a late lunch or early dinner, unless I woke up at noon. Then I might be inclined to call it breakfast. But if I awoke at 7 a.m.? That does seem odd to me.
My mother used to bake. (Almost a lost art?). She had eggs in the cupboard which she used for some baking, because aged/runny eggs work better in some baked goods.
In the UK in the 50s and 60s, the Egg Marketing Board ran a long campaign around the slogan ‘go to work on an egg’ which must have helped its popularity. So successful in fact that the slogan is still familiar to most of us, even though the campaign hasn’t run for over 50 years.