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Beau Peep Notice Board => Outpourings => Topic started by: Roger Kettle on December 03, 2009, 02:16:02 PM

Title: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Roger Kettle on December 03, 2009, 02:16:02 PM
Sometimes, when I'm trying to think up ideas, my mind wanders off into some strange places. Today's destination was pickled eggs. I used to think these abominations were peculiar to Britain until I saw a jar of them sitting on Moe's bar in The Simpsons. I really can't work out the reason for their existence. Who in their right mind would sit in a bar, enjoy a beer or two with friends and suddenly think "What I need now is a cold, rubbery hard-boiled egg thet's been soaking in vinegar for two months"?
I await the backlash from the pickled egg perverts among you.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on December 03, 2009, 03:00:07 PM
Sorry, Roger - can yo be more specific? Why wouldn't you like that?
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Vulture on December 03, 2009, 03:07:10 PM
Sometimes, when I'm trying to think up ideas, my mind wanders off into some strange places. Today's destination was pickled eggs. I used to think these abominations were peculiar to Britain until I saw a jar of them sitting on Moe's bar in The Simpsons. I really can't work out the reason for their existence. Who in their right mind would sit in a bar, enjoy a beer or two with friends and suddenly think "What I need now is a cold, rubbery hard-boiled egg thet's been soaking in vinegar for two months"?
I await the backlash from the pickled egg perverts among you.

Roger, I totally agree with you. They're disgusting. They also have an adverse affect on your spelling!   Sorry, Roger - can yo be more specific? Why wouldn't you like that?
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on December 03, 2009, 03:49:43 PM
Yo got a problem with that?   :\
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Zesty White on December 03, 2009, 04:47:20 PM
Tarks is obviously from the 'hood - whatever that is....

Roger, I'm with you on this one, but then I find most vinegar-themed things a bit unpleasant, from mixed pickles (who would pickle a bonsai tree?) to chipsticks  ???
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Tarquin Thunderthighs lll on December 03, 2009, 04:48:13 PM
I obviously don't belong here...    :'(
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Diane CBPFC on December 03, 2009, 05:08:03 PM
I don’t have a strong opinion on this issue.

They probably are leftover from the days when there was an abundance of eggs in the summer months and no refrigeration to keep them over the winter. 
I say eat the eggs if you want, don’t if you don’t want.

(Now where do I pick up my Nobel Peace Prize?)

P.S. Is Zezty drinking beer out of a hospital pee bottle?
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Vulture on December 03, 2009, 06:49:28 PM
Yo got a problem with that?   :\

That reminds me. I've been trying to purchase a yo-yo for youngest grandchild. Anyone know where I can get one?
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Vulture on December 03, 2009, 06:51:25 PM
Tarks is obviously from the 'hood - whatever that is....

Roger, I'm with you on this one, but then I find most vinegar-themed things a bit unpleasant, from mixed pickles (who would pickle a bonsai tree?) to chipsticks  ???

Pickled chopsticks? Where do you get those?
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Tom on December 03, 2009, 06:55:44 PM
I can understand pickled onions. I can't understand pickled eggs.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: robbie62 on December 03, 2009, 07:19:44 PM
pickled walnuts !!!!
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Vulture on December 03, 2009, 07:37:36 PM
I can understand pickled onions. I can't understand pickled eggs.

I can't understand either language!  ..0
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Feather on December 04, 2009, 03:05:40 AM
On a business trip, driving through Tennessee on my way to Nashville, I stopped for a "restroom break" at Loretta Lynn's Country Kitchen and Gifts. I did not wish to stop for lunch but on my way out of this in-the-middle-of-nowhere restaurant, I happened to take a look at some of the gift items. There were the usual junk souvenirs but something on a shelf caught my eye - literally. The sign said "Pickled People." Inside the jars were sock puppet dolls - at least two or three - in some sort of liquid. Disgusting!

I was going to use an Americanism to describe the location of the restaurant but realized that it was likely to be misinterpreted here.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Malc on December 04, 2009, 12:49:44 PM
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I was going to use an Americanism to describe the location of the restaurant but realized that it was likely to be misinterpreted here.

Try us.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Feather on December 04, 2009, 05:39:29 PM
The restaurant was  in the middle-of-Bumfuk-nowhere.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 04, 2009, 05:58:11 PM
 :o
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Fyodor on December 04, 2009, 06:44:29 PM
I like pickled eggs very much indeed.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Feather on December 04, 2009, 06:51:49 PM
:o

"Bum" does not mean the same thing in America as it does in the UK. "Bum" means a hobo or a worthless person, but in this case the expression simply means somewhere extremely remote or somewhere "out in the sticks" - a worthless place.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Tom on December 04, 2009, 07:35:01 PM
Phew. Feather, Fyodor and Peeps, your posts have tickled me there!

I may be wrong, but the ' :o ' may not solely be for the 'bum' part.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: robbie62 on December 04, 2009, 07:37:26 PM
over here "middle of bumfuk "is anywhere that george michael hangs out ... and i'll say it again PICKLED WALNUTS
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Mince on December 04, 2009, 08:45:55 PM
"Bum" does not mean the same thing in America as it does in the UK. "Bum" means a hobo or a worthless person

We have that expression in England as well. It became more well known and widespread here as more and more people met Peepmaster.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: The Peepmaster on December 04, 2009, 08:48:56 PM
"Bum" does not mean the same thing in America as it does in the UK. "Bum" means a hobo or a worthless person

We have that expression in England as well. It became more well known and widespread here as more and more people met Peepmaster.

That's right. I could never hold back from describing Mince to them. I just felt they had to know.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Mince on December 04, 2009, 10:17:15 PM
I guess describing me as intelligent and handsome really got to you when all they called you was a bum.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Zesty White on December 04, 2009, 11:41:17 PM
I don’t have a strong opinion on this issue.

They probably are leftover from the days when there was an abundance of eggs in the summer months and no refrigeration to keep them over the winter. 
I say eat the eggs if you want, don’t if you don’t want.

(Now where do I pick up my Nobel Peace Prize?)

P.S. Is Zezty drinking beer out of a hospital pee bottle?

You think that's beer????
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Malc on December 05, 2009, 03:00:25 AM
I'm glad I pressed you on the point, Vulch. There are a couple of other points I'd like to press you on.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Tom on December 05, 2009, 03:58:06 AM
Malc, did you press Vulch in this thread?

Zesty, although now it does look like beer, I thought you were waving an egg-timer at us.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Vulture on December 05, 2009, 07:35:39 AM
I'm glad I pressed you on the point, Vulch. There are a couple of other points  ??? I'd like to press you on.
Title: Re: Pickled Eggs.
Post by: Malc on December 05, 2009, 03:00:34 PM
Fnar   ;D:D ;)