"Cheri" > wrote in message
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> "Tiger Lily" > wrote in message
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>> On 8/22/2011 1:33 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
>>> > wrote in message
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>>>> Julie Bove wrote:
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>>>>> I have never seen a soft boiled egg. I can't imagine a soft
>>>>> boiled
>>>>> egg. Undercooked eggs just make me want to gag.
>>>>
>>>> I think soft-boiled eggs are indeed rather old-fashioned. Why, I
>>>> don't
>>>> know. Perhaps fear of salmonella? I can't recall the last time I
>>>> saw an
>>>> egg cup myself.
>>>>
>>>> A good--to my taste, anyway--soft-boiled egg is not undercooked.
>>>> The
>>>> whites are cooked through, and the yolk still runny, just like an
>>>> egg
>>>> fried over easy. The idea of runny whites makes me gag, too.<G>
>>>
>>> My dad did say he saw people eat them when he was a kid.
>>>
>>>
>> i've heard of folks eating RAW EGGS
>>
>> poke a hole in the ends of the egg........ blow the egg thru the hole
>> into a glass and drink
>>
>> GACK!
>>
>> kate
>
> OK, so here's my question. Why would you go to all that trouble of
> blowing it out, instead of just breaking it into the glass? My uncle
> used to drink a raw egg in tomato juice when he was in a hurry some
> mornings.

Blowing liquefies it, that's all I can think of.