Jeremy takes on Nigella in battle of the breakfasts

WATCHING Jeremy Corbyn, oasis singer Liam Gallagher and grime MC big Narstie (me neither) slag off Nigella Lawson’s ‘Turkish eggs’ is probably the nearest I’ll get to national pride.

Turkish eggs take the humble poached egg, dump it on salty, garlicky yoghurt, then pour chilli butter sauce on the top. ‘It looks like someone’s thrown up in a bowl,’ groaned ozzy osbourne during the celebrity edition of Channel 4’s Gogglebox.

Jeremy from Islington – parked on an edinburgh sofa, for some reason – was so irate he offered an alternative dish: coddled eggs with cheese and spinach.

I’m not surprised Comrade Corbyn finds Nigella, pictured, baffling. Her lifestyle shows are like period dramas: intriguing but entirely unrelatable. Nigella has an entire kitchen shelf dedicated to different kinds of chilli pepper. The rest of us have one jar of powdered stuff at the back of a cupboard, bought in Aldi five years ago and still going strong.

And who else has a Tv crew in the house after midnight in case you go downstairs in a nightie and full make-up for a snack?

At the weekend, I had a go at both egg recipes.

Nigella’s involved sourcing Aleppo chillies, tea strainers and saucepans; in other words, a mountain of washing up and deli shopping for the sake of a couple of eggs.

The Jezeggs were quick, delicious and cooked in one pot. mr Corbyn has no time to faff around with sieving eggs and infusing butter, he’s making breakfast for the many, not the few.

meanwhile, two minutes past bonfire Night and Starbucks had unleashed its Christmas cups, covered in a doodle customers can colour in. because you’re too busy to make coffee, but always have time to colour in a cup.