Egg day cometh!

Ok, I see you sitting there browsing through the cycle diaries web site (as you probably can't be bothered doing any work) and you see the link "Egg day cometh" and you're thinking, "what's that all about then?" It's simple, really. We're going to see how many eggs we can scoff our way through in one day. You may ask why (I have) and it's a valid question.

The story begins with a guy by the name of H.W. Tilman. H.W. Tilman was an old school explorer who ventured around the world, presumably in a tweed jacket and smoking a pipe, in the period around the 1930's. When Tilman and his traveling companions would reach  a destination, perhaps after cycling thousands of miles on bikes with no gears, they developed an obsession with eggs. They would set off chasing the sound of a chicken to see if they could acquire the necessary eggs to satisfy said obsession. It has been recorded that a group of four of them managed the fairly significant feat of devouring 160 eggs between them in one day. After hearing of this feat (and after having a few beers obviously) we thought it would be an idea to try and emulate this 'achievement' by having our very own 'Egg Day'.

The basic plan of egg day has been laid down and with some forward planning we hope to attempt it soon. The problem is we require the necessary eggs at the start of the day (scrambled for breakfast is our current thinking) and some appropriate cooking facilities. We simply don't have a big enough pan with us to cook enough scrambled eggs and our Whisperlite stove will most likely burn them to the arse of the pan anyway. So after cooking our scrambled eggs in a hostel of some sort in the morning we then plan to take some hard boiled eggs with us for lunch and snacking along the way. The end of the day will be a combination of omelettes and poached eggs split between an early dinner and a late supper (again we're probably going to need a hostel here to facilitate the cooking process).

We have a figure in our heads of how many eggs we can get through but for now we aren't going to mention it as we're interested to see what figures you lot can guess and we don't want to influence your decision making. Who knows, perhaps you want to set up a sweepstake between a group of yourselves to make the event more entertaining! Or how about have your very own egg day and you can join in our challenge and perhaps make yourself violently sick as well - now wouldn't that be fun!

Due to the excessive eating we've been doing this conversation has also led to other variations of egg day being discussed. So far the possible eating feats that have been discussed are as follows:

ice cream day - 1Kg of preferred flavour to be eaten in one sitting

porridge day - 4 litres of porridge to be scoffed (by Dave) in one sitting

steak day - 750 gram steak to be eaten in one sitting (side orders optional)

bananaman day - who can eat the most bananas in one day?

 

Any other suggestions as to possible theme days drop us a mail at thefellas@cyclediaries.com

 

Alastair