Archives for the 'eggs' tag
Policeman’s Tea Eggs Bring Peace
In a remote mountainous village in Taiwan, tea eggs made by a local policeman are all the rage:
Every day for the last eight years, police chief Liao Shih-hua has prepared tea eggs for his colleagues, tourists, and cyclists exploring the mountainous neighborhood, giving away more than 180,000 of the hard-boiled eggs stewed in a tea liquid worth some NT$500,000 (US$15,600).
Crime is down, and egg quality is up:
“At first, even dogs were reluctant to smell the eggs that I screwed up.”
For those who want to try this at home:
“Fresh eggs, Coca-Cola, traditionally brewed soy sauce and a bag of seasoned gravy are the secrets for making delicious tea eggs.”
“Illegal Eggs Taste Amazing”
“Famously succulent” homemade summer sausage can only be had under the table in Toronto, reports Maclean’s, in a great quick article about locavore black markets in Canada:
The sausage is verboten because it’s made on the farm, and any kind of meat product must be prepared in a kitchen that adheres to provincial safety regulations, even if it uses meat slaughtered in a government-inspected facility.
The microbial risks taken by raw milk nuts are nothing compared to the legal risks faced by their suppliers.
The farmers who provide foodies with their fix are taking a risk. Last year, a man in eastern Ontario was fined $3,000 for selling un-graded eggs to restaurants. And the Saturday-morning farmer’s cows aren’t even part of the quota system. In Canada, dairy farmers must sell their milk through provincial marketing boards, not on the free market. If caught, she could face serious penalties.
A recent study found that $10 wine tastes better if the drinker thinks it’s $90 wine (”with the higher priced wines, more blood and oxygen is sent to a part of the brain called the medial orbitofrontal cortex, whose activity reflects pleasure”). The same phenomenon is probably at least partically responsible for raptures over illegal duck eggs and summer sausage. The price is only part of the cost, and an egg custard that might land you in the pokey is bound to be more delicious than a legit dessert make from supermarket eggs.
Still, I tried (legal) duck eggs last summer on Long Island, and (controlling as well as I can for my own neurological quirks) I think they they were legitimately above average in their sapidity. It’s shame Canadian farmers have to slip their best customers sausage on the sly.
Via Overlawyered
English Censors Ban Singing-Kids Voices from Egg Ad
The nanny state may be creeping forward in the U.S., but it’s positively at full gallop in England. The country’s censors have banned the singing voices of children from an egg ad because eggs… well, because “most children would not be interested in” eating omega-3 eggs.
An egg advert that uses children’s voices has been banned by the advertising watchdog
The move comes just six months after a re-run of the “Go to work on an egg” campaign, fronted by Tony Hancock, was barred from the air waves.
This time, the children’s song, “Chick, chick, chick, chick, chicken, lay a little egg for me”, has incurred the wrath of the advertising watchdog.
An egg company planned to use the tune, sung by 10-year-olds, to promote its omega 3 eggs.
More from the Telegraph. As Megnut and anyone else growing up in Massachusetts during the 1980s (including me) knows, brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh.
