Comments on: From Chicago

By: Bunny

Bunny — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 02:10:02 +0000

there is a similar choice at Balthazar where I recently ate breakfast. I ordered an organic, and therefore for some reason, brown egg which arrived beautifully and perfectly boiled and in an eggcup, of course. Slicing of the top off the shell with that necessary delicate but dramatic crackkk revealed immediately that I got exactly what I wanted. But the lady across from me, a Canadian tourist, ordered two boiled eggs with her larger breakfast including meats and her eggs arrived white and less artful nesting together in a simple bowl. ( I guess she was meant to scoop them out into the bowl rather than eat from the shell in the egg cup). The point here is that the “good” organic egg with rustic brown colouring required more delicate eating…implying a more high grade eating experience , while the white “bad”eggs came with no expectation of ceremony, and from where I sat seemed over -cooked.
You decide what any of it means

By: wilson

wilson — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:25:53 +0000

the eggs bit is funny. I assume that you went to Lula Cafe in Logan Square? i was faced with a similar quandary, and responded with much laughter, ‘well, what choice do i really have?”
I ate organic eggs that day.

By: Liner Notes Danny

Liner Notes Danny — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 01:51:01 +0000

On arriving in Chicago, did your friends meet you at the station?

Yeah, I said it.

Also, the egg trap is brilliant. Imagine: if their eggs cost two bucks more, people would start buying their omelets elsewhere. But when they ask you to pay two bucks more for organic eggs, you can’t refuse! I’m pretty sure Zizek described this exact scenario in The Puppet and the Dwarf. And I’m 100% sure that if you went into their kitchen, you would not even find any non-organic (inorganic?) eggs.

Well played, Janet Jackson. Well played.