Spain: uproar over pre-cooked eggs

Paul Heymont 12/4/222:00 PM

It's not exactly a tempest in a teapot, and certainly not a fracas in a frying pan, because the subject of numerous protests and tweets in Spain this week is about re-heating, not cooking, as a supermarket chain introduced pre-cooked fried eggs.

Mercadona, one of Spain's largest chains, is selling the eggs in packs of two with instructions to reheat them in the microwave for 45 seconds, outraging both some for whom fresh is the only way and some who feel it's a bad sign that something as simple as cooking eggs in a pan is too much for some consumers.

The eggs sell for €1.80 a pair, about the price of a dozen uncooked. Complaints have included cries that "We are going to hell," "Mercadona selling fried eggs is the beginning of the end" and more, often accompanied by TikTok videos. It's not unanimous, though: one TikTok reviewer tried it and concluded "It tastes like an egg."

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PortMoresbyTG Guru

For those without a stove, only a microwave, who want a fried egg, a solution. I commend the producers & sellers but not the protestors who cannot imagine anything beyond their own kitchens. Maybe it would be more appropriate to protest microwaves as "the beginning of the end."

12/4/225:41 PM

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Paul HeymontGumbo Guru

Meanwhile, in Switzerland, there doesn’t seem to be any uproar over the hard-boiled eggs, in their shells, sold in every store and often labeled ‘picnic eggs.’ To distinguish them from their uncooked cousins, they’re usually died in bright colors.