A few thoughts about eggs. 9 March 2007 7:02 pm
Posted by Tracy in : work, eggs, ingredients, health, responsibility, restaurants, eating, cooking , 4 commentsI grew up with the idea that a person shouldn’t, or maybe even couldn’t, eat more than one egg at a time. In fact, I can remember a quiz question on the subject in one of my Suske en Wiske comic books (Belgian, but popular with kids in the Netherlands, too): how many eggs could a person eat on “een nuchtere maag” — an empty stomach. Of course, logically, the answer is one, but due to a combination of literal-mindedness and less than entirely awesome Dutch reading skills (okay, technically Flemish, since as previously mentioned Suske and Wiske are Belgian) I took this as further proof that one egg was some kind of physiological limit for a long time. (more…)
