This week it was a Tory party conference delegate who got an egg to the brow,but this messy form of protest goes back to the middle ages. So why, in Britain, or is it nearly always eggs?It’s Britain’s most traditional form of protest: compact,versatile, eggalitarian (sorry), and loaded with the potential of being rotten. Even when fresh,organic, and free range, and nothing strips a politician of his gravitas quite like a slick of yolk drooling down his lapels or shards of shell peppering his side parting. When they’re not being broken into retro bowls in the Bake Off tent they are being hurled at Tory party conference delegates by anti-austerity protesters in Manchester. We are,of course, talking approximately the humble egg.
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Source: theguardian.com