[Sca-cooks] OOP: What are they teaching are kids?

[Elaine Koogler]

Isn't that from Ghostbusters?

Kiri (wondering what, if she's right, her prize might be)

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <
adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:

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> On Jan 7, 2010, at 4:20 PM, Kingstaste wrote:
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> > Seems to me the main difference is that a coddled egg is cooked inside
> the
> > shell, while a poached egg is not.  Am I missing something?
> > Christianna
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> That's hard to say, because apparently, by some accounts, the only really
> consistent characteristic for all definitions of coddling is a gentle heat.
> Before today I'd have said gentle heat and some kind of container to protect
> from excessive heat and prevent contact between the egg itself and the heat
> source, such as the shell or some other small container. I now seem to be
> hearing that the container, even the shell, is optional.
>
> I'm thinking this is an example of culinary terminology sprawl and the
> overall decay and inevitable entropy death of Western Civilization as we
> know it. Gold riots, atonal music, dogs and cats living together, you name
> it...
>
> (By the way, I may consider offering a prize to anyone who can name BOTH
> movies that the preceding sentence is borrowed from...)
>
> Adamantius
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> "Most men worry about their own bellies, and other people's souls, when we
> all ought to worry about our own souls, and other people's bellies."
>                        -- Rabbi Israel Salanter
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