"... perfect for a very large family" - an ostrich egg is 24 times the size of a normal hen's.
Waitrose, the supermarket chain, has just started selling the eggs which can weigh in at almost 4.4lb (2kg); each egg costs £15.99. The eggs come from free-range birds on a Lincolnshire farm. "They are very good for meringues because the white is much lighter than chickens' eggs,"
I can't conceive of ostriches as being anything other than "free-range," and £16 for the equivalent of 24 eggs doesn't make sense in economic terms. This seems to be yet another development in that strange foreign world of epicurean gastronomy. Which also applies to the suggestion in the article for an Ostrich Scotch Egg (a cold hard-boiled egg removed from its shell, wrapped in a sausage meat mixture, coated in breadcrumbs, and ... deep-fried) (presumably served with sublingual nitroglycerine as an appetizer...)
(Credit to Nothing to do with Arbroath)
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