SC - Raw Eggs

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

On 14 Apr 01,, James Prescott wrote:

> Me too.  I may be right off base, but I think it's probably healthy
> in the long term for a person to ingest a bit of mild natural dirt 
> and disease with their food.  Keeps the immune system primed and
> ready for when something nasty actually comes along.

This puts me in mind of a poem I read ages ago:

A poem by Arthur Guiterman (1871- 1943) 

The Bunny and The Baby and The Prophylactic Pup 

The Antiseptic Baby and the Prophylactic Pup
Were playing in the garden when the Bunny gambolled up;
They looked upon the creature with a loathing undisguised;
It wasn't disinfected and it wasn't sterilised. 

They said it was microbic and a hotbed of disease; 
They steamed it in a vapor of a thousand-odd degrees; 
They froze it in a freezer that was cold as banished hope 
And washed it in permanganate with carbolated soap.

In sulphurated hydrogen they steeped its wiggly ears;
They trimmed its frisky whiskers with a pair of hard-boiled shears; 
They donned their rubber mittens and they took it by the hand 
And 'lected it a member of the Fumigated Band. 

There's not a micrococcus in the garden where they play; 
They bathe in pure iodoform a dozen times a day; 
And each imbibes his rations from a hygienic cup
The Bunny and The Baby and The Prophylactic Pup.

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Brighid, who has many times tasted cake batter containing raw 
eggs, and has lived to tell the tale


Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
Settmour Swamp, East (NJ)
mka Robin Carroll-Mann
now at a new address: rcmann4 at earthlink.net