So the eggs you buy at the market here are not all sparkly clean like the eggs you buy at the grocery in the US - the ones here are dirty, sometimes with globs of...junk...all over them. So we often wash the eggs before we use them, but one night after the helper had purchased eggs and put them in the fridge, I went to get one out to fry it up for Steve and noticed that she had forgotten to wash them. I was intentionally avoiding several of them that looked particularly nasty, and reached for another one while still looking at the nasty ones (kind of that "can't look away" syndrome at accident sites). Well, once I had the egg in my hand, I noticed a movement in my peripheal so I very quickly refocused my attention from the dirty eggs to the egg in my hand. To my absolute shock, there was a TAIL sticking out of the end of the egg. And to make it worse, it was wriggling wildly!!! Not joking here. Somehow I managed to put the egg down on the counter without breaking it then went into a little "that is so disgusting!" dance in the kitchen. So before you all think i overdosed on my pain meds and am imagining things, what had happened was a small lizard had lost its tail (we have these small lizards everywhere in the house, and their tails easily come off then continue to wriggle for several hours afterwards - the boys love to play with them, much to my chagrin). ANYWAY, a lizard tail had become separated from its owner and somehow got stuck on the end of an egg - wonder if Zach had anything to do with that... - then put in the fridge for me to discover later. What fun.
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setting: small restaurant
Steve: "do you have hard-boiled eggs?"
waiter: "yes"
Steve: "how much are the eggs?"
waiter: "10 pesos each" (about 20 cents)
Steve: "great, we will have 8"
when the bill came, we were surprised to see we had been charged 30 pesos for each egg instead of just 10. when we asked about it, we were told that the eggs ARE p10 each - unless you want them cooked, THEN they are P30 each.
okay....how do you respond to that kind of logic?
3 comments:
You just have to laugh!(about the restaurant logic, that is.)
Gross!!!! Those are two of my least favorite parts about life here - the dirty eggs and the lizard tails flipping around the house. My stomach turns just thinking about the combination of the two... And I love the restaurant logic. I guess it makes a little sense...need to charge a bit extra for the gasul??? :-)
Sick! I thought you were going to say it was a chick's tail about to hatch! love the family pics below...your kids are gorgeous!
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