How to tell if your egg is actually hardboiled? 1. It doesn’t crack up if you tell jokes like Q: What did the egg say to the boiling water? A: “I don’t think I can get hard — I just got laid this morning!” 2. It spins quickly. (Raw eggs only give a few slow spins.) [This and all photos unless otherwise noted are ©2018 Janine Smith & Jayalakshmy Ayyer]
Reblogged from Barb Taub:
How not to boil an egg. In a hotel room. In India. REALLY really rural #India…
It was the lion’s fault.
I’ve been exploring India’s amazingly diverse state of Gujarat along with travel companions Janine and Jaya. The three of us met as students at the University of Chicago when we moved into Little Pierce student apartment #203—three bedrooms, living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom, and lifelong friendships. By now we’ve been friends for over forty years, and traveled together on multiple continents, so we each have our jobs at a new hotel. Jaya makes coffee. Janine boils water. Lots. (Once and only once we believed our hotel’s usual “our water is all filtered” statements. I have the patient ID bracelet from Don Bosco hospital to prove what a good idea that wasn’t.)
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Sue Vincent's Daily Echo 
Thanks for sharing. I would read anything by Barb Taub, up to and including her grocery list.
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What are lovely comment! Unless…maybe you already know about my grocery list?
Ever since I added the Hub to the OurGroceries app, my grocery list has become a document of boundless hope (him—adding exotic ingredients for dishes I might just not have thought about cooking) and even more hilarity (me—adding lots of items with names like “that thingie in the yellow box” just so he’ll have to call from the store for clarification, at which point I’ll remember that the box is actually green…).
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🙂 Haha!
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Me too.
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Barb is the funniest writer in the blog world!! She always has me in stitches.
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What an incredibly nice thing to say! Thank you SO much!
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Thank you thank you thank you Sue for the reblog!
(And thank you WordPress for the reblog button’s return. )
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I’ll second that last bit, Barb. As to the first… I couldn’t resist 🙂
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