One of my few obvious irrational phobias is the look of eggs. I'm OK with them as an ingredient in cookery, but that strange semi-viscous goo, and the icky yolk sac, and…
Can understand that. It is a bit icky, and salmonellaey. I have issues with fungus. Not your normal mushrooms, but bracket fungus, mold, puffballs... ARGH!
I used to take square (well, sort-of-cuboid, if we're going to be pedantic) hard-boiled eggs to school in my packed lunch occasionally. ... It's quite hard to keep a straight face when telling gullible schoolfriends about square chickens.
Raw eggs are great. I have been eating eggs in various stages of rawness[1] all my life, and never had salmonella.
And I don't know if I like green eggs (and ham), but I would at least give them a try before declaring that I didn't like them. Which reminds me -- you missed "Scrambled eggs super-de-duper-de-duper special de luxe à la Peter T. Hooper". :-)
[1] dunkably soft-boiled; fried sunny-side-up with a yolk which oozes all over when you stick the fried bread in it; raw in cake-mix; raw in eggnog (but does the Starbucks eggnog latte have real egg in, I wonder?).
Some cheesecakes and mousses have raw egg in them too. (I made one once - it may have been the chocolate cheesecake - and did wonder at the time about the advisability of having raw egg in it, but clearly I survived the experience.)
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Date: 2004-01-28 04:09 am (UTC)There is a reason why my domain is geah. :-)
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Date: 2004-01-28 04:52 am (UTC)Eww, I think I'm going to be sick!
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Date: 2004-01-28 06:07 am (UTC)Interesting... aren't phobias irrational by definition?
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Date: 2004-01-28 06:58 am (UTC)(Although I'd probably have ticked "Not at all" since it was more likely to be offered.)
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Date: 2004-01-28 06:58 am (UTC)Raw eggs are great. I have been eating eggs in various stages of rawness[1] all my life, and never had salmonella.
And I don't know if I like green eggs (and ham), but I would at least give them a try before declaring that I didn't like them. Which reminds me -- you missed "Scrambled eggs super-de-duper-de-duper special de luxe à la Peter T. Hooper". :-)
[1] dunkably soft-boiled; fried sunny-side-up with a yolk which oozes all over when you stick the fried bread in it; raw in cake-mix; raw in eggnog (but does the Starbucks eggnog latte have real egg in, I wonder?).
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