Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-18-18 06:49 <=-

I prefer the same dish made with vast quantities
of butter, in which case it takes on the equally
appropriately name of butter prawns.

I think I'd prefer the butter prawns, too... :)

It was at a famous place in Geylang, I think,
that our table ordered butter prawns and got
the other - at that point I almost became a
cereal killer.

With due cause... ;)

... One rotten egg doesn't spoil a dozen -- only when scrambled.

Which is the reason for the quaint old custom
of breaking your eggs into a separate dish
before adding it to the rest of your batter.

Which is the way I learned to do it.... always break the egg into its
own separate dish, then add it to the rest....

So you must have had the practical equivalent
of Home Ec, either that or a modicum of good
sense. One important function of society is
to protect those who don't have good sense.

I suppose my parents did give somewhat of a practical equivalent... and generally explained why something should be done a certain way...

Lilli got into a fit of locavorism and got
some eggs from a farm that she'd gone to
when raising her family decades ago but
gradually tapered off from patronizing. There
was one rotten one on average per dozen. That
cured that urge and explained the tapering off.

That's a rather high percentage of rotten eggs.... I don't think my
little sister had anywhere near that (in fact, never heard she'd had
any rotten eggs) back when she was raising chickens.... :)

It was a dangerously high percentage, and
if the owners weren't nice, they probably
would have been shut down long since.

I'm a little surprised that they hadn't at least done something to try
to get and keep that percentage a lot lower.... just for their own
health and safety....

ttyl neb

... I think the cheese has slid off his crackers.

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