Norman's cafe fish eggs and Frazzles dish divides opinion of customers

2023-02-02

‘Caviar’ and Frazzles? Cafe popular with millennials for serving their favourite childhood meals divides opinion by serving up fish eggs with bacon-flavoured crisps

Norman’s Cafe, London, posted the Cod Roe and Frazzles dish to Instagram
The novel dish has divided opinion among the cafe’s millennial customers

A cafe in London has caused a stir by serving up fish eggs with bacon-flavoured crisps.

Norman’s Cafe, north London, added a serving of Cod Roe, a dish made from cod eggs, and Frazzle crisps to its breakfast menu.

The cafe is popular with millennials looking to reminisce on their favourite childhood meals.

But the bizarre combination has split opinion among the cafe’s usual customers.

‘Cod roe and Frazzles’: the bizarre dish has split opinion among the cafe’s usual customers

The cafe, in north London, is popular with millennials looking to reminisce on their favourite childhood meals

The cafe is so fancy it even has its own stylistically curated Instagram page, where some diners have expressed both horror and admiration over the dish.

One customer, Noah Clarke, wrote: ‘Empty cupboard boys?’ and another, Carys, said: ‘Champagne socialist’.

Andrew George said: ‘Country estate, council estate’, mocking the difference between fish eggs and bacon Frazzles as a delicacy.

Libby Rogers wrote: ‘So wrong yet so right’, but another said ‘people are so dumb’ for liking a dish with eight Frazzles.

What is cod roe?

Cod roe is often confused with caviar, which comes from sturgeon eggs that are cured and salted.

But cod roe comes from the cod fish and is more likely to be boiled, smoked, fried or eaten fresh.

It’s a low fat food high in nutrients like vitamin D, B12, omega-3 and selenium.

It is usually served cold, tastes salty and is very popular in Scandinavia.

The cafe was founded in 2020 and has gained a large social media following with over 70,000 followers on Instagram.

It also sells basic meals like cheese on toast, chicken nuggets, beans and chips and arctic rolls.

The cafe is reminiscent of London’s Cereal Killer cafe, which is known for serving bowls of of classic American cereals that cost up to £7.90.

It became popular with London’s hipsters up until 2020, when it announced it would be permanently closing due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

But the cafe was criticised for selling expensive bowls of cereal just a stones throw away from the borough of Tower of Hamlets – one of London’s poorest areas.

In 2015, the cafe was vandalised by members of an anti-gentrification protest – because of its position in Tower Hamlets.

Just a few years later in 2018, the cafe fell foul of hygiene inspectors who said a ‘major improvement’ was needed to improve the establishment’s one star health and safety rating.

Co-founders of London’s Cereal killer café, Alan and Gary Keery (pictured), where bowls of cereal were sold for £7.90 in one of London’s poorest boroughs

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