Eggs Benedict Benedick" in 1894. In an interview recorded in the "Talk of the Town" column of "The New Yorker" in 1942, the year before his death, Lemuel Benedict, a retired Wall Street stock broker, said that he had wandered into the Waldorf Hotel in 1894 and, hoping to find a cure for his morning hangover, ordered "buttered toast, poached eggs, crisp bacon, and a hooker of hollandaise". Oscar Tschirky, the "maître d'hôtel", was so impressed with the dish that he put it on the breakfast and luncheon menus but substituted ham for the bacon and a toasted English muffin for the
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