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(Below image of ordinary deviled egg) '''Chef''' Deviled Egg (Below image of flat deviled egg resembling half of a hard-boiled egg) '''Landscaper''' Leveled Egg (Below image of egg resembling ordinary deviled egg, except with edges of white chamfered) '''Designer''' Beveled Egg (Below image of egg with hemispherical white as before, but full spherical yolk within and feathered toothpick inserted into core yolk sideways at a slight angle to the equator) '''Physicist''' Demon Egg{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
 
(Below image of ordinary deviled egg) '''Chef''' Deviled Egg (Below image of flat deviled egg resembling half of a hard-boiled egg) '''Landscaper''' Leveled Egg (Below image of egg resembling ordinary deviled egg, except with edges of white chamfered) '''Designer''' Beveled Egg (Below image of egg with hemispherical white as before, but full spherical yolk within and feathered toothpick inserted into core yolk sideways at a slight angle to the equator) '''Physicist''' Demon Egg{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
 
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This comic is one of a limited number containing color; in this case, the yellow of the egg yolk, burnt red of presumably paprika, and blue toothpick foil are the only colors added. The toothpick foil is drawn in a way vaguely resembling arrow feathering.
 
  
 
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Revision as of 03:22, 15 March 2022

Deviled Eggs
The foil on the toothpick represents the blue flash.
Title text: The foil on the toothpick represents the blue flash.

Explanation

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A deviled egg is a dish created by cutting a hard-boiled egg into halves and replacing the yolk with a paste frequently made from the yolk itself. Randall Monroe parodies the dish by creating several alternative versions of the dish for other professions using word plays on the name of the dish.

Name Description
Deviled egg The original dish.
Leveled egg Many landscaping projects require a leveled ground to work on[citation needed]. As such, a landscaper may prefer serve their deviled egg with a perfectly flat surface.
Beveled egg Bevel is a design pattern of creating non-perpendicular surfaces between adjacent edges. A designer may prefer to serve their eggs with beveled edges to give their eggs a more modern, aesthetically pleasing look.
Demon egg The Demon core is a piece of sub-critical plutonium created during the Manhattan Project to investigate the properties of criticality. The piece of plutonium got its name from the 2 criticality incidents that occurred when scientists were investigating this property. The first accident resulted in the death of Harry Daghlian. In the second experiment, the core was covered between two neutron reflecting shells separated by a screwdriver. The screwdriver became dislodged, causing the core to become completely covered by the neutron reflecting shell, bringing the core past its criticality limit. A large amount of radiation caused the subsequent death of physicist Louis Slotin. The dome of the boiled egg and the toothpick resemble the configuration of the experiment.

The Demon Core was also referred to in 1242: Scary Names.

The title texts refers to Cherenkov Radiation, a "sonic boom" of blue light created by particles travelling faster than the speed of light in a medium.

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(Below image of ordinary deviled egg) Chef Deviled Egg (Below image of flat deviled egg resembling half of a hard-boiled egg) Landscaper Leveled Egg (Below image of egg resembling ordinary deviled egg, except with edges of white chamfered) Designer Beveled Egg (Below image of egg with hemispherical white as before, but full spherical yolk within and feathered toothpick inserted into core yolk sideways at a slight angle to the equator) Physicist Demon Egg

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