There can't be anyone reading this that hasn't had a disappointing experience of the Scotch egg. You've probably picked one up from the chiller cabinet in a convenience store, supermarket or from a petrol station forecourt. More than likely it was covered in breadcrumbs that tasted more like sawdust and had the death rattle of the egg moving around inside it's disappointing sausage meat of some description. It's become the butt of many jokes from Big Keith in the office biting into one after a partially tedious and slightly creepy speech to Alan Partridges digestive struggles! But biting into a fresh scotch egg is a wonderful thing, it is a totally different experience to the long life version that have become the punch line of so many jokes.