Friday, October 21, 2005

My Obsession with the Egg

One of the meanings of obsession is "A compulsive, often unreasonable idea or emotion". I don't know if that is true in this case. It's left to the readers to judge.

It's probably the cheapest form of nutricious blob. On the day I'm blogging this, a dozen eggs cost Rs. 21 in the retail market. That's Rs. 1.75 an egg. (For those of you who do not live in India or do not wish to check out the conversion rates, it's roughly $ 0.04 an egg. I'll bet, you won't get eggs for that cheap in US). However the canteen guys (here in Kharagpur) do take their charges a bit more seriously. Consider this - a cooked egg costs Rs 3 - Rs 5, which is like 71.4% - 185.7% increment on the cost of the raw egg. Funny, isn't it?? NO!!! That's highly suspicious.

For those of you who don't like mathematics, there's a good news - I'll not show any more Profit / Loss stuff. May God bless you.

The Egg Nutrition Centre has this to offer [Click Here] in context with EGG Trivia which in my opinion is totally S%#t. My obsession forced me to Google and this is what I found. An egg song [Click Here]. "Come into my tummy, oh so very yummy...", how thoughtful lyrics can be!!! This even puts amateur bands to shame.

Do you think this is the end? No. I always almost can't finish my course without atleast one double poach. I have atleast 2 eggs a day and in many cases it increases to 6 or 8. My mom would have killed me if she knew that? But isn't that an irony.