SC - RE: SC Scrapple Recipe OOP

[RANDALL DIAMOND]

- -Poster: <Elysant at aol.com>
I wrote:
>> Also, as an interesting point for all you non-Brits.  In Britain,
>> there always was a tiny heraldic lion with a crown on his head stamped on
>> each "approved" egg to denote quality.  This stopped around the late
>> '60's or so :-(   

Lucretzia wrote:
> Actually, one of the British egg firms has recently started this up again.
> Can't remember who however, as I usually buy eggs from my local butcher
> rather than the supermarket. Rather cute though...

Good marketing, I guess,  by whichever supermarket has received permission to 
do that!  The stamp is nostalgic, as well as denoting quality.  

When I was growing up in a village in Wales though, we didn't have a local 
supermarket and the lion and crown stamp on the eggs seemed to have been a 
national thing if I remember rightly - stamped on eggs that passed certain 
requirements by the Ministry of Agriculture or whoever it is regulates such 
things.  

As far as I recall - the lion stamp seems to have been used in a similar way 
to how one is supposedly given an instant expectation of quality of other 
British food products by the presence and endorsing quality of the full Royal 
Crest appearing somewhere on the box or packaging.   
 
Elysant