Tuesday5 February, 12.13pm (Red Shop, Battersea Bridge Road, £1.59)
Wow! Where to start. Well, the first thing (and Ginsters really should have known better than this) is that it’s not a Scotch Egg Bar at all, but a Party Egg Bar. A Scotch Egg, as any savoury snack aficionado will tell you, requires a full, hard boiled egg. The bar shaped nature of this product makes that an impossibility. Secondly, where’s the advantage in making it a bar? Did punters have problems holding the original Scotch Eggs? Were they not ‘lunchbox friendly’ or something. The whole thing smacks of marketing gone bonkers and again, Ginsters should know better. Thirdly, actually it tastes quite good, but kind of wrong at the same time. On further investigation, perhaps this is down to the fact that a staggering 32% of it (that’s the whole thing mind you, not just the egg bit) is Mayonnaise. I’m certain that must be some sort of record. Well done Ginsters.
(3/5 Any port in a storm)
Wow! I totally agree. They’re undeniably delicious however eating one is almost always accompanied by a bizarre dirty feeling. I can only hope that as I write this Ginsters are working on a remedy to this effect, possibly involving over the counter pharmaceuticals.
If the similarities to this weren’t so striking I might actually try one..
I like them I have being eatting them all my life. They taste nice. I like them because the look like a mars bar.
Pandy