Ham and eggs time. When Henry Puyi became Kang Teh, Emperor of the Manchurian Empire, a 1934 Associated Press story noted his taste for ham and eggs and other Western-style dishes. Bacon and eggs is a similar dish, as is Eggs Benedict, which is prepared using bacon, Canadian bacon or ham and poached eggs as main ingredients. Spanish eggs consists of ham and eggs served atop heavily seasoned boiled rice. Ham and eggs are two of the main ingredients in the Denver omelette. The term "ham and eggs" and variations of it have had various slang meanings. In rhyming slang it refers to
Eggs and Marrowbone a pole used to prevent washing on a line from blowing about too much). The moral of the song is: Now the old woman is dead and gone<br> And the Devil's got her soul<br> Wasn't she a gosh-darn fool<br> That she didn't grab that pole?<br> <br> Eating eggs and marrowbone<br> Won't make your old man blind<br> So if you want to do him in<br> You must sneak up from behind Many of these are available to listen online. Eggs and Marrowbone "Eggs and Marrowbone" (Laws Q2, Roud 183), also known as "There Was An Old Woman", is a traditional folk