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Re: Is it true the English can't boil an egg?
« on: July 31, 2006, 10:06:20 PM »
I generally soft boil eggs to a standard I'm happy with. Not sure the erstwhile Delia Smith would be, but there you go :lol:
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Re: Is it true the English can't boil an egg?
« Reply #1 on: July 31, 2006, 10:17:44 PM »
Of course, this thread would be incomplete without the obligatory egg joke:

Bloke at bar to woman he's trying to pull: "So, how do you prefer your eggs in the morning, love?"

"Unfertilized"
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Re: Is it true the English can't boil an egg?
« Reply #2 on: July 31, 2006, 11:08:43 PM »
From what I hear of Canadian winters, the eggs would only look fried but would turn out to be iron hard frozen splats you'd need to chisel off the sidewalk...
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Re: Is it true the English can't boil an egg?
« Reply #3 on: July 31, 2006, 11:55:49 PM »
Or indeed any building where conventional construction materials are either not up to the job or in short supply...
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Re: Is it true the English can't boil an egg?
« Reply #4 on: August 03, 2006, 09:09:38 PM »
Given I just got back from working late and I'm too tired to cook anything, I shall test the thread assertation by boiling 2 or 3 eggs concurrently whilst attempting the simultaneous toasting of bread...
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Re: Is it true the English can't boil an egg?
« Reply #5 on: August 03, 2006, 09:54:02 PM »
Assertation failed: I just had three near perfect soft boiled eggs with toast :-D
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Re: Is it true the English can't boil an egg?
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2006, 02:08:09 PM »
Bah, I see Eggwina Currie's farce legacy lives on :lol:
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