Given that everyone seems to have a foodblog nowadays, I thought I’d give it a go. Unfortunately, the thing I decided to blog about is today’s breakfast. Oh well. It was a bacon and egg roll from the Mobil servo in Raglan, which is near Bathurst in countryside NSW. I was out there for reasons I cannot disclose. Anyway, I was on my way back and has missed breakfast at the motel due to setting the alarm for pm rather than am. Just one more reason I prefer 24 hour clocks. Anyway, after housekeeping woke me and I dropped into certain clients, I was on my way back in The Little Yaris That Could and came over all peckish like. So a servo it saw, and a B&E roll it was. I must say, the egg and bacon were tasty, fresh and cooked very nicely. The bun was merely a cheap hamburger bun, but it wasn’t sugarey like some. All in all, I was most satisfied by my repast. The coffee wasn’t bad either. 7/10.
So, I hear you pondering, what is The Little Yaris That Could? Why, it’s Ronan, my steed for the trip. Ronan is a Toyota Yaris 1.3 auto I hired from GoGet, a mob that both hire and name cars. It’s a car share thing, so it’s designed around people who sometimes need a car for an hour or two but don’t own one or occasionally need a second one. It’s very handy for me, given I fall into the first category. Unfortunately, poor Ronan isn’t terribly suited to driving through lumpy countyside at 100ish kph, what with a tiny engine and automatic gearbox. Still, we got there and back so I’m not complaining. The accelerator didn’t stick at all, for one thing…
Certain frogs can survive the experience of being frozen. These frogs make special proteins which prevent the formation of ice, so that they actually never freeze even though their body tempurature is below 0C. The water in them remains liquid: a phenomenon known as supercooling. If you disturb one of these frogs (just by touching them even), the water in them quickly freezes solid and they die.
Also you’re a bit of a bastard. Poor little froggy..