What the Lord Giveth, the Lord taketh away - T5 F lounge catering
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The mention of coffee grains makes me speculate if I feed tea leaves to chickens, will they lay pre-tea-stained eggs? Inquiring minds want to know
Chickens are indeed highly omnivorous, they will even kill mice and other vermin if they can get hold of them and then eat them, let alone small insects. This appears to horrify some amateur chicken-keepers, especially when a cat flushes mice and the chickens go for the mice. Chickens are about as harmless and docile as, well, a cat.
(The yolk colour varying with diet is also well known to me, though perhaps I know more domestic chicken keepers than average).
If you like your eggs very yellow, you can always add a little turmeric and cumin to the scrambled eggs, which tastes great.
Chickens are indeed highly omnivorous, they will even kill mice and other vermin if they can get hold of them and then eat them, let alone small insects. This appears to horrify some amateur chicken-keepers, especially when a cat flushes mice and the chickens go for the mice. Chickens are about as harmless and docile as, well, a cat.
(The yolk colour varying with diet is also well known to me, though perhaps I know more domestic chicken keepers than average).
If you like your eggs very yellow, you can always add a little turmeric and cumin to the scrambled eggs, which tastes great.
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I’m now sitting in a third party lounge in ARN awaiting my onward flight. They’ve just brought some potato gratin out - it’s wholesome and tasty. Now we know the Swedish nation probably eats more healthily than we do, but shouldn’t BA start being slightly concerned that they’re being comfortably outdone by Aviator?
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I can’t speak for the nutritional value, but certainly can taste - there simply wasn’t any! A friend of mine who also keeps chickens in New Zealand assures me that if any of hers produced an egg that colour she’d whip it down to the vet sharpish ...
Absolutely the best option. To be fair, I didn’t need too much encouragement ...
I’m now sitting in a third party lounge in ARN awaiting my onward flight. They’ve just brought some potato gratin out - it’s wholesome and tasty. Now we know the Swedish nation probably eats more healthily than we do, but shouldn’t BA start being slightly concerned that they’re being comfortably outdone by Aviator?
Absolutely the best option. To be fair, I didn’t need too much encouragement ...
I’m now sitting in a third party lounge in ARN awaiting my onward flight. They’ve just brought some potato gratin out - it’s wholesome and tasty. Now we know the Swedish nation probably eats more healthily than we do, but shouldn’t BA start being slightly concerned that they’re being comfortably outdone by Aviator?
All excellent food for an outstation lounge!
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Up the main shopping street it seems every second row of shops has a MacDonalds
And as for their normal lunch being Hot Dogs......
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I agree the colour is irrelevant. What is relevant is that the BA lounges scrambled eggs just as the BA onboard scrambled eggs (including in F and CCR) are not made of fresh eggs but of the pasteurised egg mix in cartons inclusive of its various added products. So no, thank you.
Incidentally, as mentioned above the same people who sell those cartons of scramble mix also sell pre-poached eggs.
So as far as I am concerned, I stick to the soft boiled eggs. Sure, they cook them wrong 70% of the time but at least they are eggs and come in a shell the way eggs are supposed to. I suspect the second safest bet are the fried eggs and I think that so far in the lounge case the poached eggs are fresh too but that might not stay like that forever.
Incidentally, as mentioned above the same people who sell those cartons of scramble mix also sell pre-poached eggs.
So as far as I am concerned, I stick to the soft boiled eggs. Sure, they cook them wrong 70% of the time but at least they are eggs and come in a shell the way eggs are supposed to. I suspect the second safest bet are the fried eggs and I think that so far in the lounge case the poached eggs are fresh too but that might not stay like that forever.
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Chickens are indeed highly omnivorous, they will even kill mice and other vermin if they can get hold of them and then eat them, let alone small insects. This appears to horrify some amateur chicken-keepers, especially when a cat flushes mice and the chickens go for the mice. Chickens are about as harmless and docile as, well, a cat.
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Chickens are indeed highly omnivorous, they will even kill mice and other vermin if they can get hold of them and then eat them, let alone small insects. This appears to horrify some amateur chicken-keepers, especially when a cat flushes mice and the chickens go for the mice. Chickens are about as harmless and docile as, well, a cat.
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