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Death by Omelet…
Posted by Derek on July 24th, 2007
I decided to drive over to the Kangaroo & Kiwi on Saturday night to see if I could catch the tail end of the Rugby (AU vs NZ). Thought I meat some local ex pats as well… Maybe find out a little about the surrounding area and what good to do.
Anyway, I walked in thinking there’d be a reasonable number of fellow antipodeans, but alas, no! Everyone I could hear speaking was a Yank!
Anyhoo, to cut a long story short, Australia lost the rugby and I also ended up meeting an ex Melbournian, Josh, who actually plays for the Seattle AFL team over here. Yes, Seattle actually has an AFL team. I was surprised as well, they’re called the Seattle Grizzlies. http://www.seattlefooty.com.
On to the omelet. So Josh and his American friends invite me next door to “Beth’s Diner”, a local food spot for anyone wanting to enjoy a good meal of slop and put on a few pounds. I agreed to join them as I was getting hungry.
As we sat down, Jo, the guy in the photo put $4,000 in cash on the table and (yes, I said $4k in cash) said:
“I’ll give you this four G if you eat an entire 12 Egg Omelet.”
At this stage I was still trying to think of a legitimate reason someone would be carrying $4k in cash around… Did he just sell his car? Did he find it on the street (not likely)? Did he have extremely lucrative gainful employment?… Either way, I wasn’t about to accept the bet, it’s not something I do. However, I was hungry so I said:
“12 Eggs? That’s not so bad, put your money away and I’ll do it for free”
He seemed happy with that and called over the waitress:
“What will it be sirs?” she asks.
“We’ll have one 12 Egg Omelet for this guy right here” Jo answers.
“And what kind of filling would you like in your Omelet sir” the waitress asks, looking at me.
“Filling? Ummm…. eggs?” I enquire.
“It’s an Omelet sir, it’s already got eggs. You can have potato, tomato, cheese, chicken or beef”.
“Oh, ok. I’ll have the potato thanks” I answer.
With that she walks away. Now, I’m thinking to myself, 12 eggs, that’s possible, but 12 eggs and then a whole lot of potato inside those 12 eggs, I’m not sure I’m going to be able to do that.
Anyway, cutting this long story even shorter, you can see in the photo what was brought out. This definitely doesn’t do it justice either. It was massive. The plate it was served on was the size of a large pizza tray if that helps to give it perspective. You can see the “after” shot on flickr, it’s 1/2 eaten and it still looks like about 3 meals worth of food!
Everyone had a good laugh though and I don’t think I’ll be able to eat another omelet ever again…