February 8th, 2009
Oeuf
Dr Seuss failed.
Green Eggs and Ham was only a partial success as far as I was concerned. Sure, I will try pretty much any type of food before writing it off, indeed, there is only one food that I cannot eat – eggs.
And why is that? Because Dr Seuss messed with my mind and implanted the idea of green eggs in there… you know, as if they have mould on them.
Mouldy eggs is what I think of when I think of eggs in general.
Thanks “Doctor”.
I’m gathering evidence for a law suit… are there any foods you don’t like that we can pin on this charlatan?
The incredible edible egg. I really enjoyed this one.
Thanks, an egg man then?
Oddly enough there is a traditional Chinese food called Century Eggs that are eggs that have been buried for a ridiculous amount of time and have actually turned black/green/gray and taste like ammonia. Quite the delicacy, but I just don’t see the draw.
I’d heard of those… they sound awful, just awful
Wikipedia has this charming description: “After the process is completed, the yolk becomes a dark green, cream-like substance with a strong odor of sulfur and ammonia, while the white becomes a dark brown, transparent jelly with a comparatively mild, distinct flavor. The transforming agent in a century egg is its alkaline material, which gradually raises the pH of the egg from around 9 to 12 or more…”
But that’s nothing compared to the photo that goes with it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Century_egg.jpg
Wow. I’ve eaten some odd things in my life but…. yuck! Reminds me of the time I ate sea urchin (uni) at a sushi restaurant. Utterly terrible! It tasted like the way dog poop smells. Really. That bad.
Ewwwww. Did you have to link that picture? I mean, really?
I dislike eggs as it is but making them green? Ewwwwww!
The chinese do weird things with eggs.
They have moon cakes, a cake with an egg cracked into the middle of it.
Grossest texture.
Those mooncakes have salted duck egg yolks in them, they are pretty gross, they are extremely dry and crumbly and a bit like moist dust. They also include those duck egg yolks in steamed rice dumplings as well, and they are much more tolerable, but I’d just assume they leave the egg yolks out.
i think youve pinned it down exactly by describing mooncakes as “moist dust”
I love salty duck eggs and the alleged thousand year eggs. The green yolk i never liked when i was a kid, but in the recent months it’s not so bad.
One should eat them either with Chinese porridge or with water-and-rice. Or noodle soup. and not something to be consumed on a regular basis.
I used to sniff ammonia as a kid. Mmmm, it smells tasty. I love the old Windex formula.
Maybe i should print this out to give to anyone who offers me eggs. I haven’t been able to eat them since my grade 3 teacher told me about when she went to eat a boiled egg and there was a little cooked chicken inside. Now that you’ve pointed it out i’m also going to think about green mouldy eggs.
I’d feel bad, but at least you didn’t like them in the first place… Chicken-eggs sound a little grim. Sort of meaty and eggy at the same time, with a little bit of a crunch.
This would be considered a bonus in most asian countries. I’ve found *very* undeveloped birds in my eggs before… never turned me off of them tho. *SEEEERRRPPPEEEEENNNNNNTTT SSSSSSSEEEERRPPPPEEEENNNNTTT!!!*
The first panel looks patriotic.
*salutes the egg*
lol, oh Adam, eggs are great.
Nothing beats an unfertilised protien sack that was just shat out of some feathered animals arse and then boiled in water for an hour or so.
I’ll actually eat most things, as long as it won’t hurt me. Love beans and peas, but they don’t like me.
Was eating a ricotta and spinach roll today while a mate was describing having a skin growth removed at the docs.
That was interesting for a while.
HAH! I’m not the only one who isn’t squeamish! Hurrah!
I’m not squeamish about good. I just don’t like eggs that much.
Oh, today, we had the most fun ever. We bought some creme eggs and were throwing them at walls and the ground and out of the window to see how well they break. Turns out if you leave them in the wrapper, you can eat them after they’ve been smashed against a wall. So I put a whole (smashed) one in my mouth, then a guy who we only know as “God” tickled me so I had to swallow it suddenly, and ended up chasing him round most of the grounds of the school we were at. It was HILARIOUS. Including the conversation afterwards about how badly I needed to throw up but had to play trombone. Imo said I should throw up DOWN the trombone.
ew.
Hahahaha!
Your new name shall be “Maddie: Purveyor of Strange and Random Stories.”
You know, I’ve never actually read or watch Seuss before.
It was mildly disturbing.
I think the best way to eat eggs is to blend them with some honey, a bananana, some strawberries and drink.
I find Seuss disturbing too, perhaps it’s the the rhyme, or maybe it’s the art style… but mostly it’s the morals.
Morals? What morals?
Yo know what would be better? Green eggs, ham, and morels!
Ha, that would be great… genius pun too!
Oh, and what do beans do to you that shows they don’t like you?
It might be the cross they burned in his yard.
No, not the cross that was burnt in my front yard, that was an amusing and disastrous move for them. They didn’t realise that the dried lentils would be flammable. Giving them the fuel to dowse the cross was a mistake.
I can’t eat legumes cos I can’t digest the protien in them very well. A small amount of beans just makes me smelly. A large amount hurts as it digests.
Actually, it’s probably the pentose sugars, rather than the proteins. You can’t digest it at all, but some people have gut microflora that digest it quite well, converting those sugars into large quantities of gas, which can be quite painful, and quite smelly.
as far as roo’s flowfield congress idea goes…i’m in…and hopefully i’ll be a HUGE journalist by that time working with empire, so i’ll cover it lol
hope you’re keeping well Roo, have to get you e-mail, haven’t spoken to you in ages
So I’m guessing you get your protein from eggs, mostly? Or do you also eat white meats like chicken? Fish? I know red meat is hard to digest, for my friends who have IBS.
Salmonella doesn’t scare me too much. It should, but, like any hot blooded young male, I have an immortality complex.
I eat loads of meat of assorted colours and origins. Not too sure where hot dog meat comes from, so I dunno what colour that is….
If I am eating red meat, I prefer it as raw as is safe, much easier to eat and I find it digests faster, tho, I hear that the opposite is true.
Fortunantly, the camp cooks have a wide variety of meats and veges to choose from, so I have a varied diet and I can pick and choose what suits me and what I need to eat. Eggs, potatoe and fish are pretty high in the scheme of things.
I’d be so cautious of doing that, because of salmonella.
Mmmmm, eggy-weggies.
My wife would agree with you Adam. She dislikes eggs to the point that she, while not vegan, even eschews baking with them. She’ll use egg replacer or applesauce or a mashed banana (which is totally the best way to make vegan pancakes: om nom nom) instead. Though, every now and again when she’s sick, she’ll get a weird crazing for a scrambled egg, and make me cook her one, because she can’t deal with it raw, even if she can eat it cooked.
I’m not that fond of them either, but I’ll eat them on occasion. I ate lots of egg while I was hiking Offa’s Dyke — of the sum total of my protein intake for that walk, I think at least two thirds must’ve come from eggs and mushrooms served to me by little Welsh women for breakfast. And the rest came from cheese.
You know those Welsh eggs aren’t from chickens right?
Hahahah.
Actually, some of them were from ducks. Funny that no Americans eat duck eggs — not like there’s any shortage of ducks around here.
I would totally try duck eggs. Aren’t they greenish? Or am I thinking of something else?
I wonder what quail eggs are like… …Nah, I’d rather eat the quails.
I’m all warm and fuzzy inside!
Actually, after a while it seemed like he was trying to convince us all of something else. What exactly is it that he “would not could not” do with a goat? Started to get pretty unclear…
I don’t like eggs either. I always feel like they aren’t cooked all the way through or something and that I’ll drop dead the next second. Plus…eating unproductive reproductive products? Gross… Why don’t we just start eating sterile sperm while we’re at it?
So that’s what they’re trying to do in *those* videos…
Urgh, if it is possible, I think you’ve just made me like eggs a little less.
Because sperm aren’t as nutritious, since the sperm/egg cells are not an even split. Birds and other Oviparous animals lay eggs regularly when fertile–much like humans having a period?–and usually the eggs are eaten by scavengers and opportunists like opossums, weasels, badgers, etc. Most animals like eggs–they’re rich in protein and don’t require lots of energy to digest or get.
We’re eating chicken periods, not chicken babies.
I could go into how equally nutritious (possibly more) the shed lining of a uterus is, but I think I’m the only one here who isn’t horribly squeamish….
It’s more the other end of the cycle… ovulation, not period. But I have to say the phrase “chicken periods” reminds me of those little red globs that you find in eggs sometimes. I know they’re just a bit of blood from inside the chicken, not an embryo or anything, but they still gross me out.
Of course, I’m a very picky eater, and my pickiness usually regards texture rather than taste. I’ve been mostly vegetarian since early childhood, because I can’t stand the texture of meat. You never know when there might be some big gross tendon or blood vessel or lump of connective tissue, sitting there all stretchy and rubbery under the surface…
So… yes, I will eat eggs, but I won’t eat ham of any color.
I don’t think you’d like China so much. For awhile, Kentucky Fried Chicken was actually offering up fried chicken tendons, which are quite crunchy. They are tasteless basically, but I can’t get past the texture and I’ll eat most things. The other thing I’m not a huge fan of is chicken feet which are a huge delicacy in Shanghai. The locals can sit down to a nice dinner and one of the appetizers will be chicken feet where they spend the next 5-10 minutes spitting out chicken toe nails and knuckles, it’s just wrong.
For some reason, maybe it’s you challenging our squeamishness, the comparison between eggs and women having a period, even if it is slightly incorrect, just amuses me. Hell, women eat the placenta after their babies are born sometimes, why not eat eggs?
(This arguement is pointless for me because, as I’ve said, I don’t actually like eating eggs that much)
I actually wasn’t allowed to read Green Eggs and Ham as a kid, because my mother thought it was ‘too negative’. Which is pretty cool, when you think about it. Maman wasn’t concerned about ‘omg innuendo’ or any of that nonsense–she just didn’t want us getting into the habit of saying ‘no’ and ‘can’t’ and ‘wo’n't’.
So we read Dr Seuss’ Sleep Book instead (The bed of a jed is the softest, it’s said, for he makes it from pom-poms he grows on his head…). Also Sandra Boynton books (‘A cow says, “moo”. Sheep say, “baa”. Three singing pigs say, “LA LA LA!”). We are all into children’s lit in my house. It’s the best stuff ever. Who the hell needs all that crap they publish for grown-ups?
Actually it is closer to eating menstruation than anything else :-p
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Blah, failed to read the other posts… Anyway i don’t think eggs are as awful as hotdogs, in fact i love fried eggs.
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When I was a tiny kid, the Mom used to stir chopped spinach into the egg whites, then serve them sunny-side up with turkey ham sprinkled with fresh parsley. Read me “Green Eggs and Ham” while I ate. I think I might be the only one here who’s not traumatized by eggs.
however, that is so sweet… I must remember to do that and try and break the cycle when the opportunity arises.
Still, bet you get a little grinch-twitchy around Christmas though.
i was just thinking that i might be the only one! personally i am a huge fan of eggs, half an hour ago i was eating eggs for my breakfast, they were delicious.
meanwhile, i am strongly reminded of the scrubs episode in which JD goes on a rant about eggs to fill an awkward gap in conversation. is anyone feeling my vibe here?
I think the ham was meant to be green, too. I always figured it was just food coloring. Our eggs turned all sorts of colors around Easter.
Um, what? Sorry Adam, you lost me on this one. I”ve read Green Eggs and Ham, I’ve seen two versions, and I have, yes, eaten green eggs and ham.
I have no beef with the good doctor. I think you need to chill out, lol.
Also, eggs are one of the cheapest, fastest, easiest to digest ways to get protein in the world. There’s a reason sick people used to be fed a raw egg. Of course, now it’s scrambled eggs. But eggs are still cheaper than meat or soy or anything except possibly peanut butter. And when one is poor and has medical anorexia (not nervosa), one can’t afford to get one’s knickers in a twist over food. I used to refuse cheese and hot dogs. Once I stopped living with my parents, I got over all my food-pickyness right quick.
I struggle to digest protien from veges like legumes, which most vegeterrorists claim are the best source of protien. So for me, eggs are it.
I normally eat about 6 in a morning when I am trying to put muscle on.
I didn’t know that they used eggs to feed anorexia patients.
Well, I never feel hungry*, and because of that, I don’t realise I need food until I get vertigo and stop being able to stand up. ‘Easy to digest’ also means ‘quickly digested’. As well, I have mastication issues, so anything that is easy to chew is much easier to get down, when I’m so low on blood sugar.
*which is, btw, the literal definition/translation of ‘anorexia’: Lack of hunger. What most people call anorexia is actually anorexia nervosa. I do not have the nervosa type. I have what is known as the ‘anorexia–other unknown medical cause’. In my case that just means my body has a glitch, and never feels hungry. Couple this with hypoglycemia, and you have a moderate problem.
I can empathize. I go long periods of time (as in weeks to months) where I don’t experience the about-to-pass-out-need-to-nourish til about 7 or 8 at night. But then, it’s not because I’m hungry, but rather because my stomach is growling all sorts of nonsense chants. Or, the vertigo with a dash of I’m-hallucinating-cats-in-my-peripheral-vision.
years ago i was trying to make some scrambled eggs and a lot of blood came out, i haven’t liked to eat eggs since.
That’s terrifying
Maybe you should try taking the eggs outta the chicken first?
This is why I don’t eat organic. XD
Of course, Adam left out the other traumas caused to his psyche by Dr. Seuss books.
He’s deeply suspicious of felines that visit milliners.
He’ll only accept fish in quantities above three and not of the colors red or blue.
And he’s averse to microscopic people that speak to elephants and grinches (so sizeist of you, Ad.)
Also the fear of having multiple hats hiding under his hat (in case you’re stopped in the street by royalty!!)
Hey, that is a valid fear for any upstanding gentleman. Royalty or no–what if you meet a lady???
The fear of multiple nesting hats is doubly reinforced by Bartholomew Cubbins and The Cat in the Hat Comes Back.
Eggs are fine with me. Fried eggs done in a real hot pan, maybe in a bit of bacon dripping, crispy and lacy round the edge, on a piece of toast, or fried bread… maybe a potato scone or a toasted muffin… or on a heap of sauted potatoes… mmm.. good bit of coarse-ground sea salt and black pepper over the top, squeeze of tomato ketchup on the side… what’s to not love?
Soft scrambled eggs on toast with crispy streaky bacon… a poached egg on smoked haddock, or on some kedgeree.. egg yolk in a creamy spaghetti carbonara, just cooked in the heat from the pasta, lots of parmesan on top… biscuits, cookies… get a grip, people, life without eggs would be frankly unthinkable.
Dr Seuss creeps me out though. Never got that at all.
What’s with all the Dr Seuss hate? Am I the only little kid here who was a surrealist? D:
Nah, I loved Dr. Suess. Actually, after watched the Green Eggs and Ham video above, I went on and watched all the others suggested at the end of the video.
I absolutely love rhyming and no one does it better than Dr. Seuss.
Seuss was awesome except that he was pretty racist against the japanese (although probably most people were at the time in N. America)
I love Dr Seuss. Somewhere I have the Butter Battle Book. it’s awesome.
Saying all that, show me a runny white and I’ll barf…
You just reminded me of this hamburger you can get at IHOP or similar… it’s a huge burger with all the cheese and bacon and gobs of mayo… and an egg. I usually get the egg over-light so you bite into this huge dealie and it just gushes out all that beautiful runny yellow yolk.
Damn you, now I want a fried egg sandwich… toast some bread, spread mayo on it, put a fried egg inside, and voila, deliciousness.
Come now, Adam! There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a bit of chicken period!
I can’t pin down a hate of any food types, but I can pin down a fear of horrible, terrifying rhymes to that man. And the illustations are so…noisy. The whole thing just scares me.
As a kid, I read the line from Fox in Socks:
“Luke’s duck takes licks in lakes Luke Luck likes.
Luke Luck takes licks in lakes Luke’s duck likes.”
and I got depressed about how Luke Luck and his duck were trapped in this conforming relationship where each one only licked lakes to please the other, and neither one ever got to lick the lakes he himself liked. I compared it to the scenario where a bunch of Minnesotans are going out to dinner together, and they can’t decide where to go because each one will only say “I’ll go wherever you want to go.”
I also thought that the Plain-Bellied Sneetches actually had stars too, they were just too small to see. This was because of the line:
“Those stars weren’t so big, they were really so small
you would think such a thing wouldn’t matter at all.”
When I looked at the pictures, the Star-Bellied Sneetches’ stars didn’t look “small” to me, so instead of assuming that Seuss and I had different ideas of “small,” I assumed, in my overcomplicated way, that he must be talking about microscopic stars on the bellies of the Plain-Bellied Sneetches.
I didn’t watch the video before because I was at work.
Oh my goodness it is so disturbing. So disturbing.
Hey, this is incredibly off-topic, but it just occurred to me that some of you guys might be based around Philly, like me. If any one wants to get together for coffee or something, I’m all for Flowfieldians gettin’ to know each other better. Give a yell.
haha, Roo is heading the Flowfieldian social iniative.
Not a bad idea, shame about it being an international community and distance and all that.
Who have you met so far from here? I know of Adam, any one else?
I’ve met Justine once and I’m good mates with Jeremy, who a very irregular poster here.
Has any one else met any one else?
Just Adam, thus far, during my last trip to the UK. As nice in person as he is in real life! (That was a joke…)
But it would be nice to bring the community home, so to speak. Maybe in a couple of years when we’re all rich and famous artists and scientists, we can afford to have an international Flowfield Congress. Or something. It’d be like a one-comic comic con. We can all wear silly costumes.
How did you come to realize that some of us are near Philadelphia?
I love eggs. I love eggs. Eggs. Mmmmmm.
So I can’t take credit for anything but finding this… but it needs to be read:
http://www.seuss.org/seuss/seuss.byte.html
Enjoy!
something for everyone to think about
NEVER eat egg and chicken in the same day
why i hear you ask
you’re devouring an ENTIRE life cyle…mpther and child…GONE…in the space of 24hours
shame on you!!