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“Well, I’ll be! Eggbeater must have missed that one.”
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I don’t get it
I think it’s the implication that what they’re eating is literally just ground up whatever they could find.
So he’s just throwing everything in a vat and eggbeating it, including entire frogs.
There’s also possibly another joke where if you’re beating potatoes for mashed potatoes, you might apologize for a lump in a similar way. “Egg beater must have missed it!” But in this case it’s an entire frog.
I think the implication is that the 3 who are eating didn’t know what they were eating, only that the food was prepared. The guy finds a creature (a frog, i guess?), thinking a frog got into his dish, but the cook reveals that the creature IS the dish, which the others find immediately concerning and disgusting.
I always interpreted the creature to be some unknown, unrecognizable thing from the swamp, which makes the idea of eating it even more repulsive.
What is an eggbeater?
A hand-cranked device for beating eggs.
Like an old hand mixer.
