Peter T. Hooper Quotes

“And I captured the egg of a Grickily Gractus who lays’em high in a prickily cactus.”

“All through with the searching! All through with the looking! I had all I needed! And now for the cooking.”

“And some fellows in Zummz who I happened to know just happened to capture a thousand or so, and they wrapped up their eggs and they mailed them by air Marked Special Delivery, Handle with Care.”

“Scrambled eggs always taste always the same. And that’s because ever since goodness knows when, they’ve always been made from the eggs of a hen. Just a plain common hen! What a dumb thing to use with all the other fine eggs you could choose!

“In the meanwhile, of course, I was keeping real busy collecting the eggs of the three-eyelashed Tizzy. They’re quite hard to reach, so I rode on the top of a Ham-ikka-Schnim-ikka-Schnam-ikka Schnoop.”

“I don’t like to brag but I’m tell you you, Liz, that speaking of cooks, I’m the best that there is!”

“They tasted just like... well, they tasted exactly, exactly like ... like Scrambled eggs Super-Dee-Dooper-dee-Booper, Special de luxe a-la-Peter T. Hooper.”

“To make the best scramble that’s ever been made a cook has to hook the best eggs ever laid. ”

“I picked out the eggs in a most careful way. I only picked those that I knew were Grade-A. I only took eggs from the very best fowls.”

“I got word of a bird that does something that’s almost unheard of! It’s hard to believe but this bird called the Pelf lays eggs that are three times as big as herself! How that Pelf ever learned such a difficult trick I never found out. But I found that egg quick. And I managed to get it down out of the nest and home to the kitchen along with the rest.”

“If you want to get eggs you can’t buy at a store, you have to do things never thought of before. ”