My wife always put an ‘H’ on the hardboiled eggs with a pencil to make sure they aren’t confused with the raw. When my daughter was in elementary school, they were one of her favorite snacks. So when I’d make them, instead of the ‘H’ I’d draw a little something. I’m not any great artist, but I’d draw a butterfly or a cat or some silly face. I didn’t realize for ages that they apparently became a sensation at school and the other kids always wanted to see the day’s egg.
Pencils haven’t used lead in almost a century. Pencils use graphite which is just really thin sheets of carbon atoms arranged in lattice. Graphite is for all intents and purposes harmless to humans.
My wife always put an ‘H’ on the hardboiled eggs with a pencil to make sure they aren’t confused with the raw. When my daughter was in elementary school, they were one of her favorite snacks. So when I’d make them, instead of the ‘H’ I’d draw a little something. I’m not any great artist, but I’d draw a butterfly or a cat or some silly face. I didn’t realize for ages that they apparently became a sensation at school and the other kids always wanted to see the day’s egg.
That’s a lovely story and a lovely memory for both of you
It’s funny, after she told me it kind of felt like a pressure/obligation - I sort of wished I didn’t know.
A hobby turned into a job
Yeah, pretty much that
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Pencils haven’t used lead in almost a century. Pencils use graphite which is just really thin sheets of carbon atoms arranged in lattice. Graphite is for all intents and purposes harmless to humans.
They’ve never used lead, actually. People just thought graphite was black lead back in the 1500s.
Got confused due to marketing apparently back home refils are called leads
It’s a colloquial term, but pencils have never contained lead.
On the shell, and pencils use graphite - they haven’t used lead for ages.
I can’t imagine trying to write on an egg itself with either kind of pencil.
Pencils have actually never contained lead. People in the 1500s just thought graphite was lead.
Huh, interesting