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Subject: [Leica] OT: Egg Coddlers
From: jon.stanton at comcast.net (jon.stanton@comcast.net)
Date: Thu May 4 07:33:37 2006

A LOMO edition?
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From: "David Rodgers" <drodgers@casefarms.com>
> Do they make an Aspheric version? I want my eggs benedict to be chromatic 
> aberration free!
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marc James Small [mailto:msmall@aya.yale.edu] 
> Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 3:39 PM
> To: Leica Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Leica] OT: Egg Coddlers
> 
> At 07:06 PM 5/3/06 +0000, jon.stanton@comcast.net wrote:
> >What's an "egg coddler"?   Is it a polite name for a jock strap?
> 
> It is a device for coddling eggs -- a process somewhat akin to cooking a
> soft-boiled egg, only they can be cooked to taste and spices and the like
> added.  These are either porcelain or glass and have been around for around
> 125 years.  Royal Worcester in, oddly enough, Worcester, England, developed
> them in the late nineteenth century and they are still making them today.
> Others are made in China.  The French made them for years but I am not
> certain that any are still being made there today.
> 
> These are every bit as much the focus of collector gluttony as are old
> cameras, though MY gluttony for egg coddlers is in their use, though,
> camera person that I am, I have saved the boxes for all of my egg coddlers
> and keep them next to the boxes for my Leica, Zeiss, Cosina, Rolleiflex,
> and Hasselblad stuff.  <he grins>
> 
> Much more than you ever wanted to know can be found at 
> 
> <http://www.egg-coddlers.com/>
> 
> Marc
> 
> msmall@aya.yale.edu 
> Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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