article_snippet: After decades in the doldrums, eggs appear to have a cracking future.
article_snippet: It is a remarkable resurgence for the egg, which has suffered from a series of health scares and changes in food fashion since the 1950s when the nation was happy to ‘Go to work on an egg’.
article_snippet: As a result, egg sales are now finally back to the levels seen in the 1980s when the former Tory health minister Edwina Currie infamously labelled egg sales a health threat because of salmonella contamination.
article_snippet: ’ Egg consumption has also been boosted by the trend to eat breakfast at dinner under the rise of the ‘Brinner’ – a trend that has been imported from America.
article_snippet: In total, 32 million eggs were eaten every day in the UK in 2014, equivalent to 11.7 billion throughout the whole year.
article_snippet: Data obtained from retail analyst Kantar Worldpanel shows that, in the 52 weeks to the end of February, the GB retail market for eggs was up 2.4 per cent in volume terms.
article_snippet: Andrew Joret, chairman of the British Egg Industry Council, said Andrew Joret, chairman of the British Egg Industry Council anticipated another year of rising consumption in 2015, pointing to the sector’s first TV advertising in 10 years, as well as a new Main Meals in Minutes recipe campaign fronted by fitness entrepreneur and celebrity Lucy Mecklenburgh.
article_snippet: A fan of the Brinner trend, she said: ‘I’ll often eat eggs for dinner when I get home from a work out in the evening.
highlights_snippet: Now, egg sales are finally back to the same levels seen in the 1980s .
  