> The whites do behave a little differently, don't they? I ended up with
> a cloud of egg white and a seperate yolk, both cooked nicely but
> completely distinct from one another. When dropped (oopsie) into the
> boiling (swirled) water the white went everywhere instead of clumping
> in the way. Mind you a hen egg I tried afterwards behaved in a similar
> way.

> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:48:29 -0000, Bear gmail.com>
> blethered:
>

>>In article Halla said ...
>>

>>> The whites do behave a little differently, don't they? I ended up with
>>> a cloud of egg white and a seperate yolk, both cooked nicely but
>>> completely distinct from one another. When dropped (oopsie) into the
>>> boiling (swirled) water the white went everywhere instead of clumping
>>> in the way. Mind you a hen egg I tried afterwards behaved in a similar
>>> way.

>>
>>I re-tried the Delia method - it worked like a dream. I think my
>>previous efforts must have been with sub-standard eggs, newly-bought
>>though they were.

>
> You realise that your comment will have filtered back through
> supermarket quality control to the supplier and that, even as we
> speak, a teeny tiny whip has been unleashed on some unfortunate hens ...

> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 09:46:55 -0000, Bear gmail.com>
> blethered:

>>It's not the chicken's fault - I suspect the supplier wasn't 100%% honest
>>as to the dates on the pack, or else they'd been stored somewhere too
>>warm. I can't explain it any other way - nothing else had changed.

>
> Joke aside, I suspect supermarket storage conditions out the back of
> the shop are not always optimum. e.g. ice cream that has started
> melting before being put in the freezer (on one occasion after it had
> been put in the freezer, but that was a different problem), that sort
> of thing.

>

>Think back 20 years - if you'd
>suggested ciggies could ever be banned anywhere public you'd have been
>thought a nut ... now spool forward to 20 years hence; they've done away
>with booze, and fat people don't get treatment on the NHS ... what's
>next?
>
>Don't have nightmares :)
>

> According to my spies Bear of () writes

>>

>

>>Think back 20 years - if you'd
>>suggested ciggies could ever be banned anywhere public you'd have been
>>thought a nut ... now spool forward to 20 years hence; they've done away
>>with booze, and fat people don't get treatment on the NHS ... what's
>>next?
>>
>>Don't have nightmares :)
>>

> Can't see our Politicos doing away with the demon drink, what with the
> evident fondness for it that most of 'em display.

> Can't see our Politicos doing away with the demon drink, what with the
> evident fondness for it that most of 'em display.

> As for the fat folks, there ain't gonna be any. We'll all get hauled
> away to the fat farm for Body Mass Correction, as soon as they can
> "pinch more than an inch" at your compulsory monthly fitness
> evaluation.

>On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 16:32:46 +0000, Noel Foster
>nffoster.demon.co.uk> blethered:
>

>>Mike Harrison wrote:
>>

>>> Can't see our Politicos doing away with the demon drink, what with the
>>> evident fondness for it that most of 'em display.

>>
>>Not in the Palace of Westminster, of course not. Any more than they've
>>banned smoking on the premises. Things like that don't apply to _them_.
>>

>
>I heard rumours about that, but is it really true? It's exempt? Sly
>fly so-and-sos mutter grumble...

> On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 16:08:10 +0000, Noel Foster
> nffoster.demon.co.uk> blethered: (about the Houses of

>>
>>Whether it's a ¨public place" or not, it's a workplace. You're not
>>allowed to smoke in any other workplace, even your company car (and
>>even if you never give cow-orkers a ride, I believe).

>
> Up here tenants are not supposed to smoke in their homes for at least
> an hour before council workers eventually arrive to fix something or
> other.

> I also don't know what the estates guys do when it's raining
> all day and they're moping in the vans - surely no one expects them to
> leave for a ciggie?