{"id":2722,"date":"2015-01-12T23:14:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T04:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2015-01-12T23:50:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-13T04:50:44","slug":"rachel-cracked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/?p=2722","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Cracked."},"content":{"rendered":"

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I know, I know.\u00a0 You’ve heard this from me before. But I can’t say it enough.\u00a0 I have a thing for the chicken.\u00a0 You see… I truly love the chicken egg.\u00a0 In fact, I eat about 3 every morning.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And it got me to thinking about how different people….. can be right, about different things, using different solutions.\u00a0 But I will get to that in just a moment.\u00a0\u00a0 Back to the Incredible, Edible, Egg.<\/p>\n

What’s not to love, really?\u00a0 The whole fowl-up about cholesterol (no pun intended) gives us egg-eating-privileges with no-worries.\u00a0 Eggs are NOW good for you.\u00a0 So is white-pasty food, but that will be discovered by the scientific world in due time.\u00a0 Anyways… Chicken Eggs.\u00a0 Oh boy, oh boy.<\/p>\n

There are a whole big bunch of chickens in the world.\u00a0 Like 25 billion.\u00a0 There are more of them than any other bird species.\u00a0 Now, I didn’t think too much about the personality of chickens.\u00a0 That is, until I saw “Chicken Run”…. one of the best movies of all time.\u00a0\u00a0 From that point on, I had a new appreciation for the bird.\u00a0 And for\u00a0 Mrs. Tweedy.<\/p>\n

Back to it.\u00a0 They can be smarties, sometimes.\u00a0 They are able to remember and recognize over 100 different chicken faces; they can also recognize humans.\u00a0 They have dreams too. And vocalizations like crazy.\u00a0 Oh, I could go on and on about their positive qualities.<\/p>\n

But here is the deal I am sort of ticked off about today.\u00a0 It was about a year or more ago, and I was visiting my Mom.\u00a0 We were watching Rachel Ray, one of my Mom’s favorite cooking shows, back then.\u00a0\u00a0 Old Rachel was telling us that there is only ONE correct way to crack an egg.\u00a0 And that is a good knock, right on the flat surface of the counter.\u00a0 She continued to say that if you are doing it any other way… you are just dead wrong.<\/p>\n

Imagine my surprise.\u00a0 All those years, I had been using the edge of the frying pan.\u00a0 So… for the past couple of years…. dag nab it….. I have been trying to “get”\u00a0 and “perfect” this flat knock on the counter top.\u00a0 Every morning it was egg destruction of mass proportions.\u00a0\u00a0 I would get raw egg everywhere, sometimes the whole egg spilling out on the counter.\u00a0 And to make matters worse, about 3 times out of 5, I would break the yolk.\u00a0 Now if you scramble eggs, this is no big deal.\u00a0 But if you eat them fried, and over easy, this is a TRAVESTY and a catastrophe.<\/p>\n

So… after a long hard battle… I switched back a couple of weeks ago.\u00a0 A little tap, tap, tap on the edge of the skillet and in it goes.\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 I haven’t had one casualty.\u00a0 Well…. I guess truthfully, every single one is a casualty. But no broken yolks, no spilled eggs…. no shells in the pan.<\/p>\n

It is like the one “Poster” on Facebook:\u00a0 2 + 5 = 7 is correct.\u00a0 But so is 3 + 4.
\nYep.\u00a0 That is the deal.\u00a0 Often times in life, there is more than one solution to any given situation. And both might be perfectly feasible.\u00a0 And good.<\/p>\n

I also feel it is important for us to realize this, and keep an open mind when considering others’ suggestions for a resolution.<\/p>\n

Unless, of course, you are Rachel Ray… and you have been screwing up me and my chicken eggs\u00a0 for over a year now.\u00a0 In that case…. you can just go stuff a turkey.\u00a0 Lurkey.<\/p>\n

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Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.\u00a0 —\u00a0 Voltaire <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The trouble with life isn’t that there is no answer, it’s that there are so many answers.\u00a0 — Ruth Benedict\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I know, I know.\u00a0 You’ve heard this from me before. But I can’t say it enough.\u00a0 I have a thing for the chicken.\u00a0 You see… I truly love the chicken egg.\u00a0 In fact, I eat about 3 every morning.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And it got me to thinking about how different people….. can be right, about different things, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nowyouseeit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gollypolly.com\/30473\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}