re: #29 Dopamine Fish

Mrs. Fish is exactly the opposite; if it doesn’t run all over her plate when she breaks it, she doesn’t eat it. The best way I know how to make runny eggs is to cook eggs in the middle of bread; the timing of properly frying the bread seems to work perfectly with frying the egg to a nice runny (but not raw) consistency.

My ex refuses to eat a runny yolk, says it goes back to a childhood trauma when her very strict British age-of-austerity-generation parents tried to force her to eat a runny egg. She asked if they could just cook it a bit more so it was solid but they told her that she was to obey her parents, and besides it’s better that way.

She was forced to sit at the dinner table until she finished it. When she had not finished it at bedtime, she was sent to bed and had it served to her cold the next day.

Finally she snuck it out and hid it on the compost heap, where they found it, washed it off and forced her to eat it in their presence.

Another ex-GF had a similar trauma with her morning cereal. She said she did not like having milk poured over it, because by the time she got to the bottom, the milk was warm and the cereal soggy. She would have been fine eating the cereal dry and drinking the milk but no, she had to have the milk poured over because it was better that way, so she was forced to gag on warm milk and soggy cereal every morning.