The Incredible, Edible

Egg and little known facts

“Ham-and-Egging” ….When the Chicago Bull’s Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen played they liked to use this term. It meant that one of them would start strong and the other would finish strong. And the opponents were “toast”.

President Woodrow Wilson often drank two raw “eggs” in juice as part of his breakfast.

Japanese Master Artist, Hokusai often demonstrated his versatility in painting using the end of a brush, or his fingers or with chicken “eggs“.

Paul McCartney penned the melody for “Yesterday” before the words. Searching for the right lyrics, John Lennon referred to the song as “Scrambled Eggs” because it carried the same meter as the future title. Lennon said: “We called it ‘Scrambled Eggs’ and it became a joke" between them. Paul eventually married the music to the song's title “Yesterday” but gone were the many laughs they had over its temporary title, scrambled “eggs“.

“Butter and Eggs” was a common term used in the 1930’s and '40’s. Gamblers would bet on the closing commodity prices for these dairy products.

A “Butter-and-Egg Man” was slang for a visitor with a lot of money, or a yokel ripe to be separated from his cash.

“Fried Egg” in golfers’ slang is a half buried ball in a sand bunker.

“Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck’em” is diner slang if you order scrambled “eggs” on toast.

And the "Benedict” no one is sure how it ever was associated with the “egg“.

Legend has it that LeGrand Benedict, frequented the famous New York restaurant, Delmonico’s and requested the head chef create a new “egg “dish.

The other is that the dish was named after Harry Benedict, who frequented the New York Waldorf Astoria and wanted a meal to overcome his hangover.

The “egg” carton was invented by Joseph Coyle in 1910. He ran a small British Columbia newspaper and quit after finding a different use for paper products.

Birds usually lay “eggs” that are 1% to 10% of their body weight.

One exception, the kiwi who lays one single egg a quarter of its weight.

In comparison it would be equal to a 120 pound human female giving birth to a 24 pound baby.

So on that "yoke" Winnie wishes our OGR listeners, their families and friends an "egg-cellent" Happy Easter and Passover!!