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"It does feel cleaner when you're looking across and you can see there's nothing coming out. And the smell isn't there, like we used to have that eggy smell coming from there."
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2025
If you've over-boiled your eggs, this reaction forms a green ring around the yolk; it smells distinctly "eggy," or as my kiddo informs me, "farty."
From Salon ● Apr. 9, 2023
The idea of taking carbonara — in all of its bacony, eggy goodness — and turning it into a breakfast dish is not an entirely new one.
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2023
My approximation of Carey’s omelet proved to have a good, eggy profile.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
The sky’s gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything.
From "I'll Give You the Sun" by Jandy Nelson
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