November 9th, 2007
#374 - Yolk
When I think of hard boiled eggs for some reason I always remember a conversation from back in high school. It was during lunch and one person mentioned helping her mother make deviled eggs for a party. There was a foreign exchange student sitting in our group and she asked “What are deviled eggs?” Her friend sitting next to her instantly replied “You hard boil a bunch of eggs, cut them in half, take the yolks out and mix them up with mayo, mustard and spices and then put them back… as if nothing ever happened.”
November 9th, 2007 at 12:06 am
That’s cute; my friends frequently host foreign exchange students (Japanese generally, or Korean), and the culture differences are almost always amusing.
As to the comic, I love it. Do you read other web-comics, Chris? If you do, I suspect you’d enjoy Dinosaur Comics. Strips like this remind me of the ‘decimated’ discussion, and, more recently, ‘homographic homophonic autantonyms’.
November 9th, 2007 at 12:21 am
I know you can make a battery out of a potato, and if you consider that some people eat boiled potatoes, couldn’t you have a potato powered egg timer? It’s just crazy enough for Biff to try it!
November 9th, 2007 at 12:22 am
I wonder what egg-shaped timers taste like…
November 9th, 2007 at 12:25 am
I had one of those egg-shaped egg timers. Unfortunately, amusing shaped timers aren’t always the best made ones, because it broke in half, just like my timer that was shaped like a kettle.
November 9th, 2007 at 12:57 am
looks like the yolks on biff….
Hey, leave the bad puns alone. XD
November 9th, 2007 at 1:06 am
deviled eggs are delicious…
November 9th, 2007 at 2:10 am
our timer looks like a greeen pepper.
greeen?
November 9th, 2007 at 2:49 am
Well speaking of potatoes, we have a potato cleaner thingy that looks like a potato! YAYNESS!
November 9th, 2007 at 2:59 am
I’m sure there’s a lemon-shaped thing that smells like lemon around here somewhere…
November 9th, 2007 at 3:00 am
As if i need prompting to notice it’s a lemon…
November 9th, 2007 at 6:27 am
Silly Biff… You’re supposed to *scramble* your egg timers.
November 9th, 2007 at 6:57 am
My wife is from another country (Poland) , and she makes the best deviled eggs. The cultural differences are a definite plus.
Bubble: I have the same thing!
November 9th, 2007 at 9:17 am
I prefer my timers mixed into a spinach and cheese omelet, heh.
November 9th, 2007 at 9:17 am
I told a foriegn kid it be funny if he called our local law enforcement that his dad was building a dirty nuke..Man all the bright shiny lights…
November 9th, 2007 at 10:06 am
Wow, I’d hate to see what would have happened if Biff decided to have scrambled eggs instead. XD
November 9th, 2007 at 10:54 am
haha Im hungry
November 9th, 2007 at 10:56 am
There actually is an egg timer that you put in the pot with the eggs.
http://www.leevalley.com/garden/page.aspx?c=1&p=55015&cat=2,40733,44734
It changes colour when the eggs are done!
November 9th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
I like it when my mom makes deviled eggs with those little fish (not anchovies) which are plentiful in the Baltic Sea. I hate it, hwoever, when she makes them with tuna - the only type of fish I cannot eat because it has a taste - and I liked fish that don’t have taste or have a taste of oil (those little fish I told you about are canned with a lot of oil)
November 9th, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Usually Biff makes me chuckle, but this one really got me laughing for some reason.
November 10th, 2007 at 8:57 am
My egg timer ‘dings’ when it’s done.
November 10th, 2007 at 10:37 am
I…I don’t have an egg timer…
November 10th, 2007 at 10:52 am
But if you don’t have an egg timer, the stalacpipe organ can soothe your pain… http://www.oddmusic.com/gallery/om25450.html
November 10th, 2007 at 11:12 am
wow, that formatted really weird.
November 10th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
Oh Silly Biff… Someone should teach him that egg timers are only tasty when fried…
Geez, he should at least google it at least once…
Well, Let’s just say that Biff’s head wasn’t really made for thinking ^^
Good job Chris… Keep Biffing!
November 10th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Biffing, ha that’s highlarious!
November 10th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
A Hispanic friend refused to try “deviled eggs” because of the name. Eventually she decided to eat one, and soon started bringing deviled eggs to each church get-together from then on.
November 10th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
Oh, and my mom has one of those egg timers that you actually do put in with the egg and it changes color. She loves it.
November 11th, 2007 at 8:07 am
Sounds cool Garrett I want one of them!!
November 12th, 2007 at 10:33 am
mmm…timer.
November 12th, 2007 at 9:53 pm
LOOKS LIKE THE “YOLK’S” ON HIM! AHYUK HYUK HYUK
November 13th, 2007 at 8:41 am
the comments are almost funnier than the comic itself….lol
November 14th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
Mmmmm, hard boiled timeclock.
November 22nd, 2007 at 7:48 am
Good thing Biff didn’t want an omelet.
Deviled eggs *rule*. We put deviled ham into ours with the yolks, mayo and mustard.
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:09 pm
cooking an egg timer..
sounds like something I’d do.