Posted by John Nichols on August 30, 2003 at 17:24:46 from 165.91.199.202 user Mcneacail.
In Reply to: Re: milk in tea, and drinking lake water posted by Cairn a.k.a. Sayoko on August 30, 2003 at 15:33:16:
Eggs in Tea:
Egg shells have a problem with salmonella, and putting them in tea is not necassarily my idea of sound practice, but we must remember that young and old Billy would have grown up in the last part of the 19th century and were probably exposed to far worse germs in their youth. Milk fever killed a lot of mothers and I suspect babies. If they survived past 5 in those conditions (and I would say a lot did not) then they probably are reasonably safe. The ones who did not boil the egss long enough would die anyway and the Billies are left as a perfect example of Darwins theory. To cook the egg for 5 minutes probably kills the bugs.
The taste might not be great.
I think John in saying poor old chap was not being negative but using an idiom of the time. After all she was the mate of the ship.
Considering the average converstion of a 12 to 16 year old male around gilrs these days I think John and Roger and Dick were real gentlemen. Certainly they have been a big influence on my behaviour.
Also I am not sure that wiping up with the same dish cloth time after time as modern man does is that healthy or all the carpet in the house with the dust mite. Asthma is really bad in Australia with the children.
When I was growing up everybody drank tea with at least 3 sugars and ate all the salt they wanted. The fact that my grandfather had bacon and eggs everyday of his life and he died of clogged arteries at 70 are probably not related. At least they are eating corn flakes in PM in the dogs house.
Ed:
DOes AR use the word bate anywhere else beside PM to describe the GA in a bit of a rage.
John Nichols