Capitol Hill Blue Forums Misc. Topics Food, Drink and Cooking Wonder what the poor folks are eatin' tonight?

You crack me up! With them peepers, they almost looks o-live! (Face it - you egged me on and I'm too hardboiled and calcified to not take up the yolk - take care aught you say lest ye find yerself white with embarrassment at the cloaka and dagger puns).

Is that what that squealing noise is??? Actually, I always try to tell them how lovely they look and feel just before I chop them up with a sharp knife...

Bwahahaha!

Here you go:




YES! A standing ovation.

Things have to eggsactly balanced, no eggsaggeration, to achieve such eggscellent results given the eggigencies tendered by the eggsistence of potential earthquakes to eggsacerbate the eggsistentiality of the soon to be eggstirpated state of balance.

Or so it seems - could be photoshopped...

such fowl puns shouldnt be condoned.

in other news: what does a hindu? it lays iggs

When I was a kid, we used to use toothpicks to draw geometric patterns on our hard-boiled eggs with melted paraffin. This acts as a mask when you dye them. You can even make multiple color patterns by starting with some wax for the original white, brown, or green egg color. Then use a light color dye like yellow (or just a quick dip in a dye). Then add more wax patterns, followed by a different dye. I have done four different dyes, resulting in five different color patterns, but the final un-waxed egg color ends up very dark.

Here's a link to a crafts web site with some examples:

Lithuanian Easter eggs

Ukrainian version

Paraffin is much cheaper than beeswax, and works fine. Also, it is translucent so you don't really have to remove it at the end.

I've always wanted to make really cool Ostara Eggs. But shoving them around in a pan of Barbasol is as close as I've ever come.