Who Invented The Omelette ?

[Canary42]

While happily eating a couple of boiled eggs for my breakfast today, it occurred to me that they didn’t really present a very bulky meal. Which led me to wonder who invented/discovered omelettes which present a far more satisfactorily bulky-looking breakfast.

We laud various inventors/discoverers for such ideas as steam engines, penicillin, etc., but I wonder who discovered that vigorously whipping eggs resulted in the joy of omelettes.

If it comes to that, who discovered eggs were edible in the first place ?

Just a little harmless breakfast musing :-) :-)

Can you think of any other unrecognised discoveries or inventions which we all take for granted – they all “started” somewhere.

[lankeela]

Eggon Ronay?

[maggiebee]

Not sure but think he was a bit cracked.

[barry1010]

Ancient Persians supposedly invented omelettes.
Why do we still call Persian carpets that when new ones are made in Iran?

[maggiebee]

Persia/Iran - one and the same. I suppose tradition plays a part.

[Canary42]

Scotch eggs don't always come from Scotland

[Chipchopper]

I reckon it was a failed juggler

[barry1010]

I know Iran used to be called Persia

[lankeela]

Was he shell shocked?

[drmorgans]

James Mason narrated a short documentary, The London Nobody Knows, which featured the Behr and Mathew Egg Breaking Plant. The scene was a bit "trippy" (well it was made in the mid-60s) but I think the company was existing.

[Chipchopper]

Mesopotamia maybe

[Chipchopper]

The guy who invented the tasty snack of coating eggs in sausage meat, then rolling them in bread crumbs was a Mr Scott chegg

[fiveleaves]

The person who first discovered eggs could break probably invented the omelette