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Did You Know #15 - Pocillovist

by Andrew Barrow, Posted Mar 7th 2006 @ 2:31PM

Did You Know -

  • That Pocillovist is the name for egg-cup collectors
  • That the earliest recorded images of egg cups appear in a Turkish mosaic dating from 3AD and examples were found among the ruins of Pompeii from 79AD
  • That there is a egg cup collectors club www.eggcupworld.co.uk
  • Silver egg cups, made in the 19th century were often gilded inside. This was to prevent the sulphur from the egg staining the silver.
  • The double egg cup became very popular in the 1930's. The smaller end would be used to serve a boiled egg in the usual way. The larger end was used to serve the egg chopped, mixed with salt and pepper and eaten with a spoon or fork.

 

Filed Under: Food Oddities, Did you know?, Ingredients
Tags: did you know, egg cups, EggCups, eggs, food and drink, FoodAndDrink, oddities, pocillovist

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