Re: How is an Egg ? ( OT )
- From: "Nigel Evans" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:28:04 +0100
"Uncle Dave" <davidcovey@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sep 18, 5:07 pm, "Nigel Evans" <ni...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
There is great controversy in the UK about the boiling of lobsters and
their
consequent suffering. What about eggs, then ? A friend of mine would not
eat
ox tongue because it came out of an animal's mouth. He much preferred
eggs.
I avoid eggs because 1) there is plenty of evidence they're not good
for you and 2) I find it morally difficult to eat an embryo. I really
do like veal but don't eat that either. I do, however, eat suckling
pig which the Germans do particularly well. I take only a very
minimum of milk because that's also not good for you - it's fine for
making baby cows grow but is not intended for humans, grown or
otherwise. Of course, although religionistas will claim to, nobody
knows what is right or wrong when it comes to food and for every claim
about something being good for you there is another saying it isn't.
Yes, but I come from a generation which was urged to "dinkapintamilkaday"
and "go to work on an egg". Do you think I could sue ? We used to drink a
couple of pints of milk every day in school. They had it in 1/3 pint bottles
and, like beer, it's dead easy to swig lots of them.
I can remember in the Royal Hotel in Cardff they would run out of pint
glasses very early in the evening after an International. So, we would end
up with a half pint glass in each hand. The first half pint was downed in
one so that one had a free hand to scratch one's nose or something. Then,
feeling a bit of a poof holding a half, that was downed as well. So, two
empty glasses, wet hands, singing, and fighting my way back to the bar with
my mates forming a wedge. This was repeated as the evening progressed, the
room getting warmer by the minute, until the alcohol began to kick in. Then
we became oblivious to the fact that we were soaking in sweat. Loads of
people smoking too. Amnesty International would never allow such torture but
we were enjoying ourselves. Until I wanted a pee. Unbelievably hard work to
force one's way to the toilet and worse to get back. But, the toilet had to
be visited as there were none on the trains in those days. Fortunately the
windows lowered to halfway on the door. It was comparatively easy to pee out
of the window, the most difficult thing was timing it so the guard wouldn't
catch you.
It's a funny old game - I do like that Heineken ad with the lobster,
sums it up nicely...
A woman with a lobster is OK. but, with crabs, not exactly to my taste.
.
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