He built the business into a colossus and himself into a multimillionaire with a bright red Ferrari, though for much of that time he was the unknown man eating egg and chips in the lorry park, with oily hands from all that cleaning.

ECONOMIST: Edward Stobart | The

The festival's four egg contests include a five-minute hardboiled-egg eating contest, usually winnable with 25, and egg roulette, where contestants smash one of six eggs against their face.

WSJ: Big Chocolate Eggs May Be Big, but Big Hen's Eggs Not So Much

Within the next hour, tiny pewees and hefty puffbirds, insect-eating tyrants and egg-snatching toucans had paraded in front of my cabin, each newcomer more brightly feathered than the last.

WSJ: Bird Watching in Misiones Province, Argentina

It is a cross between a love poem to Ms Lalonde and a city-symphony documentary, stitched in with a light-hearted parody of the social-enquiry film (subjects are shown eating their breakfast egg in all manner of ways).

ECONOMIST: Richard Leacock

After "Cool Hand Luke" (1967), in which he played the egg-eating malcontented title character, he turned to directing, earning raves for his behind-the-camera work on "Rachel, Rachel" (1968), starring his wife.

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