File spoon-archives/postcolonial.archive/postcolonial_2000/postcolonial.0007, message 186


Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 19:00:51 -0700
Subject: egg is egg? Re: East is east
From: Florence Libert <Florence.Libert-AT-wanadoo.fr>


> the chinese have two terms--banana and boiled eggs. one is yellow outside,
> white inside, the other is white outside yellow inside.
> salil

in some parts of the world some hen's eggs -- boiled or not -- are brown on
the outside! :)  now that complicates matters, doesn't it? :)

florence
who was shocked the first time she saw see white eggs (hen's eggs)! :)



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