POST-WAR FRIESIAN PRAWNS (and more)

For once, I'll post a recipe for a change. This is a typical post-war North German dish with few calories:

-Schwarzbrot (special black bread, darker than brown, can be purchased at Lidl or Aldi)
- 100 g prawns per person
- 1 egg per person
- butter for the bread
- more butter to fry the eggs
- spices (usually salt and black pepper) after your own wish

Butter the bread without toasting it. Add the prawns on top, and then crown it all with a sunny-side-up (fried English style) egg. Add spices if you wish.

These prawns are traditionally served with hot tea, prepared Friesian style:
- tea leaves
- water
- cream
- sugar

Put the leaves into the teapot. Then, heat the water up to 100ºC and fill half the teapot. Wait for three or four minutes. Then, heat the rest of the water up to 100ºC and fill the teapot up. Put sugar at the bottom of the cups. Then, pour the tea into the cups through a strainer (an infusive basket may also be used for the same purpose). Finally, pour the cream slowly into the cups using a teaspoon and watch the cream flowers grow in the cups.


As a bonus and for the Spanish summer, I offer you the recipe for Coke and Ice:
- Coca-Cola
- Ice cream (of the kind that can be portioned in balls)

Simply put a ball of ice in a drink of Coke (Now don't fill the glass to the brim!).

THINGS THAT SURPRISE ME

• Cowards are called "yellow" in English. Why? Because some chickens are yellow? Or Asians (OK, not all Asians are yellow-skinned)?
• Inherently funny words: the English animal names "duck", "frog", and "weasel" make speakers and listeners laugh...
• Some idioms: "brass monkey", "dead as a doornail", "the straw that broke the camel's back".
• Bach: not the flower therapy, but the late cantor of Leipzig. This baroque composer has some extraordinarily dense and evolving cantatas. And I do like such music. Especially when in a good mood.
• Coke: the recipe is secret. So what's in the can? Does Coke dissolve teeth, kill sperm, act as a love potion, or have any other unusual properties?
• Red Bull: the same as for Coke. Besides, at the age of 16, I noticed protrusions on my shoulder blades having drunk this product. Nothing more. But does it qualify as "growing wings"?
• My own state of mind: I am currently researching about the amygdala, the real seat of human emotions (though saying "with all one's amygdala" or "from the bottom of one's amygdala" sounds disastrous). It's an ovoid structure of white matter, the size of an almond or of a quail's egg, located in the human midbrain. And in my case, it doesn't have a secure cortical connection, leading to phobias, philias, manias and other quirks that sometimes prove a thorn in the flesh.
• Sacred texts: why are old-fashioned sacred books displaying male chauvinism, nationalism, and fatalism (the Bible and the Torah, to quote only a few), still so popular nowadays?