Talk:Egg-and-spoon race

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We always used boiled eggs to save on mess! Rich Farmbrough 21:21, 2 Apr 2005 (UTC)


 * We always used large potatoes -- it is cheaper for the organisers, it is less of a mess, and the whobbly shaped objects make the race more fun. -- leuce (talk) 07:38, 10 March 2011 (UTC)

Since when was eating the egg part of the Egg and Spoon race? Synthetic eggs to prevent salmonella would only make sense if the eggs were eaten, and how do you eat an synthetic egg, unless it's chocolate or something... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.202.156.84 (talk • contribs) 22:45, 1 July 2005‎


 * Seconded. We sometimes used boiled eggs and sometimes raw, but nobody ever thought of eating them. PeteVerdon 15:22, 27 August 2006 (UTC)


 * I think the salmonella issue is when you bring your own egg and take it back home again, thinking that it isn't broken when in fact the shell was cracked. -- leuce (talk) 07:38, 10 March 2011 (UTC)


 * At my primary school, we used an artificial solid 'egg' - I'm not sure what it was made of but it didn't seem edible. But at some point I read a story of a school sports day and the egg and spoon race therein.  From what I remember, the participants brought their own eggs, and the expectation was that they would bring hard-boiled ones, but this one boy (who might have been the central character) had a raw egg and it fell and broke.  Unless the risk of breaking the egg and being out of the race is part of the game, this is an obvious reason not to use raw eggs.
 * But there must be somebody out there who runs egg and spoon races with real eggs (raw, boiled or otherwise) and can tell us what gets done with the eggs afterwards. I can see a few possibilities:
 * The participants get to eat them on site afterwards
 * The participants get to take their eggs home
 * The host keeps them and later uses them for meals
 * The host keeps them for re-use in future egg and spoon races (for how long after the use-by date would they still work for this?)
 * They just get thrown away (which I would hope doesn't happen)
 * — Smjg (talk) 01:13, 1 February 2015 (UTC)

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