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Egghead Community-at Kroger's!

Hungry in Lilburn
Hungry in Lilburn Posts: 756
edited November -0001 in EggHead Forum
I just had an interesting experience. I was at Kroger picking up a prime rib for my wife and I for dinner tonight. While I was waiting my turn this gentleman in front of me was looking at filets. He didn't like the cut in the case so he asked for one from the back. He described it for the butcher and I was impressed. Had to be a $50 piece of meat. It also made my radar go off and I asked myself if this guy could be an egger? So, I asked him how he was going to prepare it. Well he replied "have you ever heard of a Big Green Egg?" I laughed stuck out my hand, introduced myself and asked him if he was on the forum. He laughed and said no but he has been cooking on eggs for 30 years. He then explained that he knew the owner of BGE back when he owned a store called Pachinkos (sp?) and he was selling Japanese marble games. He told me how the Komodo was turned into the BGE using ceramics and the success of the BGE empire. I invited him to join the egghead forum and stay in touch. Maybe we could form a Lilburn egghead subgroup. LOL! What is the chance of that happening again? LOL!
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  • Bacchus
    Bacchus Posts: 6,019
    There are alot of Eggers, particularly in the ATL, who have been doing it for years. We Forum members tend to think of the Forum as the center of the BGE universe, but it is not really the case.
    I saw my first egg at the Pachinko Palance back in the late 70's,as a kid. It was at the corner of Buford Hwy and Clairmont Rd.
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  • Hungry in Lilburn
    Hungry in Lilburn Posts: 756
    True. My brother in law knew about the egg by a co-worker telling him she found one on the side of the road, picked it up, traded it in and got a new one!
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  • AZRP
    AZRP Posts: 10,116
    I was wearing my Eggfest tour T shirt in our Krogers and a guy walking towards me says "do they really have Eggfests?" Turned out he had a BGE and a Grill Dome. He didn't know about the forum. -RP
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  • Squeeze
    Squeeze Posts: 717
    So where did you say I (Or someone named Squeeze) was posting bad things about this forum? I am quite curious to this statement?
    Kevin Jacques
    The University of Que L.L.C. ®
    Killen, AL
    www.uofque.com

    Take Your Taste Buds to School!
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  • Hungry in Lilburn
    Hungry in Lilburn Posts: 756
    We need to enlighten the world! LOL! Heck, I just want to find folks that use it and share ideas locally. I use to belong to the Mustang Club in Philadelphia and it was fun getting together and discussing the cars. Of course these days no one has time for such things...sigh....
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  • Bacchus
    Bacchus Posts: 6,019
    HIL, I rented a house back in the late 80's with 2 other roomates. It was about 4-5 miles from the original store. There was one of the early BGE's on the back concrete patio. Lived there 2 years and cooked many roasts & chickens on it. As I was moving out and talking to the owner, I mentioned that I would miss the Egg. He said nobody had cooked on it for years before me so I could just take it. I was moving into a small apartment with a wooden deck so I turned down the offer. It was 20 years later before I would cook on one again, the Large I bought in early 2008.
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  • Squeeze
    Squeeze Posts: 717
    Still waiting for where that post was with me or "Squeeze" badmouthing this forum...
    Kevin Jacques
    The University of Que L.L.C. ®
    Killen, AL
    www.uofque.com

    Take Your Taste Buds to School!
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  • hornhonk
    hornhonk Posts: 3,841
    Squeeze, what are you talking about?
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,481
    Here's my PACHINKO that I have had for nearly 40 years. It still works and is a frazzle dazzle game machine from the mechanical times before computers! I like to think that some how some way Ed Fisher himself had some part in getting it to the USA and to me!...even though I never heard of a BGE until 10 years ago!
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    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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  • Bacchus
    Bacchus Posts: 6,019
    Very cool Ron. My chilhood best fried had one, maybe a few years more modern, but pretty much just like that. Needing a part, his Dad drove him and I to the Pachinko Palace where I saw my first Egg.
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 26,481
    BTW it doesn't use "marbles" but multiple steel ball bearings which rain through that face. It pings as it hits metal pegs and since it is electrified then parts flash with lights and a bell dings like crazy. Really it is cool! You go through hundreds of balls and it keeps paying you back when you hit the swinging jackpot.
    Re-gasketing the USA one yard at a time 
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