Scotch eggs ($3) may have been introduced to Nigeria with the creation of the Royal Niger Company, in the late 1800s. They've long been naturalized in that West African country; as adapted by Chiefo Chukwudebe, the sausage-meat layer contains flecks of spicy red and green pepper. These might not fly in the British Isles, but they were more than fine with me.
Chiefo's Kitchen
2948 Folsom St. (25th-26th Sts.), San Francisco
510-689-6096
www.ChiefosKitchen.com
At the San Francisco Street Food Festival
(From an August 2011 visit)
