Posted by Tim on May 23, 1997 at 12:09:34:
In Reply to: Re: Questions about Boiled Eggs posted by Gordon on May 22, 1997 at 21:02:14:
Karabadangbaraka, Tim
This topic has evidently gripped the imagination of Tarboarders, and
poor Noriko is clearly in danger of being inundated with
information, advice, recipes, and even (see Peter's posting)
eggs. I'll therefore restrict my contribution to the following points:
them is, in fact, followed throughout most of Europe, the egg-cup being
a peculiarly British (and American?) institution.
risks in Britain of opening a boiled egg 'the wrong way' (see Gordon's
posting). Certainly, in Swift's Gulliver's Travels a dispute
over whether eggs should be opened at the sharp or blunt end becomes
an occasion for war, but that was over 250 years ago, and satire
into the bargain.
novels? (Roll on the happy day when we have them available as a corpus
in machine-readable form and can answer a question such as that in
seconds ...).