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March 3, 2008
Eggs and Feathers
I'll admit that I was a little surprised this past weekend by the flurry of emails I received in response to the (arguably tepid) stand I took against eggs and feathers. Or rather, against the "egg and feather" craze that's been blighting hipster shacks like "Zack's Breakfastery" in Detroit and "The Most Important Meal" in Kansas City.
Josh from Hoboken writes: "Dear Cesil (sic): you are a big jerk. Eggs and feathers wrawk! Stop saying bad things about eggs and feathers!"
Doug in Chicago writes: "Mr. Vortix (sic): you and everyone else over the age of 25 can eat your eggs the way you like. I'll have mine with feathers!"
Perhaps the authors of these misbegotten missives think I can be startled into silence. If anything, the result has been the obverse. With each new addled assault that stumbles its way into my bulging inbox, I find myself emboldened to take up the battle cry against this repulsive phenomenon with plus vigor ("more vigor")!
Dishes like "Eggs Benedict (and Feathers)" or "Eggs Over Medium (and Feathers)" or even "(Feathers and) Soft Boiled Egg" are just the latest step in la grande decline ("the grand decline"). And I for one will not sit quietly by, tuning my viola while Rome cooks egg dishes decorated with feathers!
Isn't there some admonition in the Torah about not eating the feathers with the eggs? It seems wrong on so many levels.
Posted by: So-Called Bill at March 4, 2008 9:32 AMExactly! It's like taunting an omelet! What kind of monster would taunt an omelet?
-Cecil
A French one.
Posted by: So-Called Bill at March 4, 2008 11:59 AMwhat i like about the feathers is that they remind us that the egg could have become a beautiful bird.
and, you ate that beautiful (possible) bird.
i hope you are proud.
yes, i eat them too, but hey, top of the food chain, baby.
Posted by: Itto Ogami at March 4, 2008 12:57 PMThis whole time we've been talking about eggs and feathers, you know what I've been thinking in the back of my mind? Cheese and onions.
Posted by: So-Called Bill at March 4, 2008 1:00 PMDon't get me started about cheese and onions....
-Cecil
and what if the canadian geese flying in the night sky of the post above were to take offense at all this egg-and-feather talk?
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geese?
i think you mean foie gras.
on french bread.
Posted by: Itto Ogami at March 5, 2008 6:55 AM
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