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Go to work on an egg

Posted by Amanda nicoll on September 05, 2000

In Reply to: Go to work on an egg posted by Austin Marshall on January 08, 1999

: Who wrote the slogan 'Go to work on an egg'

The phrase was coined by Ms Fay Weldon (now a well known English authoress) when she was in advertising back in the 1960's for the (then) British Egg Marketing Board as an advertising slogan to encourage people to eat more eggs.

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