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After the rocktacular victory of Lordi at this year’s Eurovision¹, we felt some celebrations were in order. When running through the streets became unfeasible, apparently some kids had already run down the whole length of the road knocking all the bins over, and with drunken students being all too scapegoatable, we needed to come up with some other suitably Metal gesture.

So we made an omelette.

You’re probably thinking that omelettes are one of the least Metal foodstuffs in existence. But this was no ordinary omelette. Spawned from the brains of the confectionary geniuses responsible for making “Smarties Cereal” and “Bill Bailey’s Giant Kit-Kat” a reality, this was to be a rather special “Creme Egg² Omelette”.

Debate was held as to whether the whole egg should be used, or whether a more authentic scooping of innards and discarding of “shell” would be more appropriate. However, this became largely academic when Tesco only had Creme Egg bars left at 11:30 on a Saturday night.

Whilst Delia doesn’t recommend using milk in an omelette, she’s probably never tried making one out of 1 1/2 creme eggs left over from Eurovision, 4 creme egg bars, and a couple of bits of Fruit and Nut, so in the milk went.

Whilst making the omelette, it became clear than 4 melted bars of chocolate (plus squirty cream for consistency) was not going to satisfy 3 people’s hunger, so a second, more traditional omelette was prepared, courtesy of Sina’s Eggs.

Eggy bread also made an appearance, on account of it being delicious.

Both resulting omelettes were quite delicious, if a little salty/full of squirty cream.

Conclusions: whilst the Creme Egg offering was incredibly tasty, the traditional variant was certainly required for sustenance. This is no doubt why Spanish farmers would traditionally take an omelette made from both normal and Creme eggs to work, incorporating both a main course and a dessert into a single convenient package. Whilst we couldn’t find any photos of Spanish farmers relaxing in their lunch hour, we think they might have looked something like this:

¹ For those not aware of Eurovision, it is an annual contest bringing together the countries of Europe in a singing competition extravaganza, with each country generally entering a relatively unknown artist. (The organisers of the Eurovision Song Contest usually like to take this opportunity to apologise for releasing Celine Dion upon the world). Scoring is by telephone vote in each country, with the 10 highest scoring songs receiving a number of points (up to 12). In practice, some countries regard it as camp entertainment (the UK), some take it incredibly seriously (Scandinavian countries), and voting is partially dictated by politics; countries bordering you give you lots of points, countries you’ve annoyed or invaded during the year give you ‘nul points’. Which makes it even more interesting that NBC have acquired the rights to an American version, with other negotiations ongoing for Canada, Australia, the Middle East, and Africa, potentially resulting in a worldwide contest. With the world split between countries America has invaded, those it’s about to, and those that go along for the ride; where does political voting leave you then?

² Creme Eggs were first introduced as an Easter chocolate in 1971, and since then have appeared for longer and longer on supermarket shelves, and today they are available around 51 weeks a year. They consist of a thick milk chocolate shell and a sickly yellow fondant filling. And are delicious.

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