The Incredible Inedible Egg

The egg once believed to be bad for your health made a come back as being edible again. With this many a people are now enjoying eating eggs again. But for some people the egg is but a mere dream. Something that is desired but just beyond ones reach.

Take my husband for example, he loves his eggs. There is only one way he will eat them, over medium. This for him means that the whites are fully cooked but the yolk is still runny. He absolutely can not stand for his eggs to have uncooked whites to them or to have hard yolks. For him this is mostly an impossible dream.

Twice now at the Flying J in Blacksburg, South Carolina he had ordered a breakfast plate that contained eggs. Both times he asked for over medium eggs and did not get what he asked for. The first time the cook decided to really show him just how impossible his desire for the perfect egg was. The eggs came out with the whites extremely runny and not looking at all healthy. My husband promptly sent the eggs back to finish cooking. The eggs came back out after cooking some more, still under cooked. Talk about a man hitting the roof on this one.

Later that night we went back into the Flying J to eat our dinner. Keep in mind that at this hour of the night a new cook was on shift. My husband decides to try yet again for his impossible egg. He orders his egg the way he likes it and prays and prays that it comes out fully cooked with those perfect little wet rays sunshine in it. What he got was not what he expected to get. His whites were fully cooked but they had served him up a little ball of sunshine right in the center that was hard. No runny yolks to these bad boys.

It is not just with over medium eggs people that has made the egg just a dream. Scrambled eggs are even taking on a whole new dimension with what I like to call the "Scramble Burn". The scramble burn is when some idiot takes a perfectly scrambled egg and decides to make it change from a pretty yellow color to a hideous black and brown color. Even the scrambled egg is now beyond some peoples reach, leaving us with another form of the incredible, inedible egg.

So what has happened to the egg? Has every cook in the world conspired to make a person's dream of an edible egg just a dream? Are we not to ever be able to enjoy the simple pleasures of eating an egg ever again? Is it up to me and husband's mother to be the only ones destined to cook him the perfect egg?