Pickled eggs. Your thoughts please!

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On a recent trip back to blighty I met an old drinking partner in a pub in York and he reminded me that when I was 17 (surely 18?) I won a "Pickled Egg Eating Competition" in one of our locals. So I was persuaded to try another.

I must admit I found it rather "challenging".

Are Pickled Eggs purely a Northern thing? I recently met a Somerset chap who makes his own and I've been toying with making my own myself (I have plenty of eggs) but maybe using Apple Cider vinegar instead of malt and livening them up a tad with some chilli flakes in the mix.

So. Have you had them, did you (or do you still) like 'em and do you think the Swiss would dare even try one?

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They have them down our way (the West Midlands, that is, not the Gold Coast, unless it's quail's eggs you're talking about), and they're bostin!

My lady friends tended to disagree, though, for some reason.

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I love them but by god they make you have smelly guffs. What you are proposing to do to liven them up sounds good, i'd buy one but i'm a northener!

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I don't think I ever actually tried one but they are available in every chippy in the Edinburgh area.

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So. Are you brave enough Lou????

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Given how good your egs are I think I could be tempted if you do the pickling .

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Depends how long they've been pickled, remember a chippy down our way in Brum where the bloke behind the counter admitted that the black eggs had been there for a while.....

Bloody nice though

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Must be northern part, they have them in Canada to

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As a Londoner, we always had them. Mostly a Christmas thing where my dad would make loads of them along with his spicy pickled onions. Mmmmm Yummy

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Had some of those beauties the other day.

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Just found a couple of recipes. I like the look of the Beetroot flavoured one

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That's not fair. I'm on the wagon

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Love 'em.

Used to go in a pub where the landlord made his own pickled eggs and pickled onions (using sliced onions). Absolutely delish.

Oh. I have such a craving now for pickled eggs.

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They are available in pubs down South as well, but are not a big deal. I must admit that I am not a fan of them myself.

My Brother-in-law, up north in Co. Durham, supplies them to his local pub. He produces them from his own chickens. They seem to be pretty popular.

Coincidentally, a girl in our company recently broke the World record for eating pickled eggs: 17 in 5 minutes. She will appear in the 2010 Edition of the Guiness Book of Records. A strange way to try and get your own office though

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I understand that a certain kind of pickled egg is popular in the distant reaches of the Orient:

Weird foreign muck

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Could somebody care to explain what a pickled egg is? It doesnt sound very yummy though

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It's an egg, pickled.

It's delicious, especially after several pints of Pedigree.

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Mom used to do hers in beet brine - empty a jar of pickled beets, heat the brine up, pour it over the eggs and stick the jar back in the fridge.

I hated them but then I'm not a hard-boiled-egg person. Rest of the family and all the neighbors loved them so I reckon it's just me.

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No I hate theme to Uhhhhhhhhhhh this is scary a swiss/canadian and american have some thing in common

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Pickled walnuts are the way forward.