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  • Anne Hathaway Is Pretty Particular About Her Eggs, Reportedly

    Anne Hathaway wants a properly poached egg, and she wants it now. Or at least before it gets cold.

    The news rocking the web today comes from the Paramount Lot, where Anne Hathaway is apparently filming a commercial.

    And she’s hungry. Probably still hungry, because by the time her breakfast nightmare was over she probably just gave up on food altogether. I know I would.

    According to TMZ, Hathaway sent back her breakfast not one, not two, not three, but an incredible four times. Unbelievable.

    All she wanted was a poached egg, an english muffin, and an avocado. How hard can it be?

    From TMZ:

    1st try: Poached egg too runny.

    2nd try: English muffin was cold because it sat while egg #2 was being poached.

    3rd try: Egg #2 cold because it sat while chef toasted muffin #2.

    4th try: Egg, muffin and avocado were perfect, but it took so long she decided she was in the mood for a fried egg.

    The horror.

    Anne Hathaway’s new movie is The Intern, with Robert De Niro. We’ll be anxious to hear of any breakfast drama from that set.

  • Plastic Easter Eggs: 3 Ways To Reuse Them

    Have you attended the yearly Easter egg hunt in your community and are now finding yourself with baskets of plastic eggs and nothing to do with them? Sure you could throw them away, but why not recycle and repurpose them. Here are 3 simple and easy ways to reuse plastic eggs.

    Decorating
    Plastic eggs make great Easter decorations and if you save them every year, you will have enough to decorate your entire home or yard. Add the eggs to a long piece of yarn one at a time to create an Easter egg garland that can be used to line fences, frame doors and windows or hung on walls inside your home to add a touch of spring to your house for the Easter holiday. You can also tie a piece of string to each egg and hang them on the branches of the small trees in your yard.

    In The Kitchen
    Save a few of the leftover plastic eggs and add them to your kitchen drawers. You can use the eggs as Jello molds, ice cube molds or use them to mold marshmallow treats and even fondant. You may find yourself using the plastic eggs for future Easter parties and dinners or for other occasions. The eggs are easy to wash and safe to use with food.

    In The Garden
    Have you ever wished there was a way to fill up your above ground flowerbeds or large flower pots without having to buy so many bags of potting soil? Use your extra plastic eggs to fill them instead. By adding the eggs to the pots or beds, you can take up a lot of the empty space and then top them with a lesser amount of potting soil. You can also use the eggs as molds to make bird and squirrel treats.

    Before you throw out all of those unwanted eggs, think of other ways you can use them. Do you have any other uses for plastic Easter eggs?

    Image via Wikimedia Commons

  • California Egg Law Is Met With Opposition

    California has proposed a law set for 2015 that will regulate more stringent guidelines regarding the treatment of chickens. In order for farmers to qualify for selling eggs, space requirements must be met as well as other conditions such as not confining hens to cages. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has recently challenged this law and taken his concerns to the federal level.

    Koster claims that the newly-proposed law infringes on interstate business operations where California should not be granted the influence to determine how farmers from Missouri operate. “If California legislators are permitted to mandate the size of chicken coops on Missouri farms, they may just as easily demand that Missouri soybeans be harvested by hand or that Missouri corn be transported by solar-powered trucks,” Missouri Attorney General Koster said.

    Missouri Farm Bureau President Blake Hurst agreed with Koster. “A pretty good tradition in this country that’s worked pretty well is that we have free trade among the states, and we would not want to see that changed,” Hurst said.

    However, there is opposition against Koster’s view. Jennifer Fearing, who is the senior state director for the California branch of the Humane Society, articulated another reason behind this recent debate. According to Fearing, “Attorney General Koster’s lawsuit targeting California’s laws, filed just to curry favor with big agribusiness, threatens state laws across the country dealing with agriculture and food safety.”

    Bruce Friedrich, who is a senior policy director at Farm Sanctuary, echoed Fearing’s sentiments. “It’s a real embarrassment for the state of Missouri that Mr. Koster would defend a practice that is horribly abusive of animals with a legal theory that is tilting at windmills.”

    Concerns relating to agriculture guidelines, the treatment of animals, and interstate business guidelines are all at the center of this developing situation.

    Image Via Wikimedia Commons and Courtesy of Biswarup Ganguly

  • $120 Egg Sandwich Offered at Sydney Restaurant

    An egg sandwich would rank pretty low in an ordered list of expensive sandwiches. One restaurant, however, has found a way to raise the price of an egg sandwich to over $100.

    According to a report in The Sunday Telegraph, a Sydney, Australia restaurant called 4Fourteen this week will be selling a $120 egg sandwich. It contains Australian bacon, a duck egg fried in truffle butter, roasted foie gras, aged cheddar, shaved truffle, semi-dried smoked gourmet truss tomato, and a crème fraîche and caviar dressing, all on a brioche roll.

    The sandwich will be available only during this week. The sandwich was unveiled at a breakfast Monday morning at 4Fourteen, hosted by Australian celebrity chef and 4Fourteen owner Colin Fassnidge. A 4Fourteen chef named Carla Jones told the Telegraph that she expects people to order the sandwich out of curiosity, though she might not eat it herself because she is “not that into truffles.”

    The egg sandwich is actually part of “Bacon Week” – a celebration of Australian pork. Events promoting locally-produced pork will be held throughout Australia this week. The organization Australian Pork Limited (APL) has issued a challenge to other Australian chefs to create a bacon and egg roll to rival 4Fourteen’s.

  • Chicken Lays Giant Egg That Contains Another Egg

    Just in time for Easter, the locals in Guizhou, China have been dumbfounded to encounter a chicken that is repeatedly laying monster-sized eggs.

    The Los Angeles Times is reporting that a woman in the Chinese village told reporters that her hen began laying the huge eggs last week, and has produced several of them. She stated that she feeds the chicken rice, as opposed to her other chickens, which get corn. When the first massive egg was laid, she told reporters, she thought the hen was dying.

    The eggs reportedly weigh over twice as much as normal eggs. It’s easy to see why. In the video below the woman and friends crack one of the eggs for cameras, showing that it holds two yolks and an entire other egg within its shell. The nested egg’s yolk brings the total to three yolks – enough for a proper omelette.

  • ESPN Throws Eggs At Megatron

    ESPN Throws Eggs At Megatron

    ESPN uploaded a video to YouTube today in which star Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson (known to many as “Megatron”) tries to catch eggs as Sportscenter’s Lindsay Czarniak throws them to (at?) him. He’s better at catching footballs, but he does feel he has also earned the nickname “Eggatron”.