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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi
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To: Michael Sphar who wrote (60389)8/15/2001 9:42:07 AM
From: Rambi  Read Replies (3) of 71178
 
You and I are from the same generation but my mother never served us one grape-nut-- an occasional cornflake maybe as a treat. Perhaps your mother was an early hippie Earth Mother?
We received an egg- every morning wihtout fail-- a soft-boiled egg that sat in decapitated splendor in an eggcup. It was called a Dippy Egg, and next to it was a little army of "Toast Soldiers" which we ceremoniously stuck into the slimy yellow eggheart and then murdered one by one in our Jaws of Death.

My mother believed that if we didn't eat one egg every day, we would drop dead on our way to school. The autopsy would show that the cause of death was egg deprivation and this would look bad for her.

Sometimes my brother, who had a notoriously weak stomach and once threw up his spaghetti dinner after a ride on a small ferris wheel with his first date, lived in terror that he would accidentally eat that white stringy thing that eggs have in the middle. He thought it was a baby chicken. In fact, I think I told him that. Big sisters are responsible for education, you know. He was always getting up and running out of the dining room gagging.

My boys, raised on a diet of sweet cereals and waffles, with random egg intake disguised as French toast, may be malnourished, but they are emotionally healthy.
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