Behold, the supermarket Scotch Egg: lunch box staple for the unimaginative, prerequisite snack at funeral buffets and culinary ammunition during schoolroom...
Delicious they may be, but scotch eggs are surely no accompaniment to your favourite cocktail?
For me, there are three legitimate snacks that can accompany a good cocktail without interfering with it: pretzels, kikos (giant salted corn) and (at a pinch) roasted salted peanuts. Seems to me the perfect cocktail snack is salty and crunchy, with only a modest flavour profile. Kikos and pretzels manage that handsomely, roasted peanuts ace the first two criteria and just about squeak the third.
For me, there are three legitimate snacks that can accompany a good cocktail without interfering with it: pretzels, kikos (giant salted corn) and (at a pinch) roasted salted peanuts. Seems to me the perfect cocktail snack is salty and crunchy, with only a modest flavour profile. Kikos and pretzels manage that handsomely, roasted peanuts ace the first two criteria and just about squeak the third.