Zoo breakfast hatches enjoyment for visitors

What does an ostrich egg taste like?

In the event you didn't attend the Ostrich Egg Breakfast at the Oklahoma City Zoo this weekend, I'm going to tell you.

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Eggs. They taste like eggs.

But I can't believe you weren't at the zoo on Saturday. It looked as if the entire city was there. The Zoo Friends of the Oklahoma Zoological Society anticipated an attendance of 2,500. Figures aren't available while I'm writing this, but it appeared that all those folks came, and each one brought a friend or two.

It was a nice sensation, being at this big party with people I knew, people I would like to know and people who passed by and stopped in. There were babies in rolling strollers and old folks in rolling strollers. Families were enjoying one another's company. We were a community.

I was invited to be a guest cook. Don Thiery of The Catering Co. tried to put a big culinary lesson in an eggshell for me, including my limp-wristed attempt to flip an omelet, which resulted in somebody's breakfast landing outside the skillet.

Some opted for hen's eggs, so I learned that one ostrich egg is the equivalent of about two dozen of those. The drawback of an omelet breakfast is that only one omelet at a time can be cooked. But Thiery and others were flipping an omelet every two minutes at 14 burners for three hours Saturday morning.

And later, you could go watch the elephants and bears for a while.

The ostriches and the Zoo Friends have been doing this for 22 years. It raises money for the Zoological Society. It gives the ostriches something constructive to do. It brings a community together around one of our best resources.

I had some eggs, met some good people, and smiled the rest of the day.

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