Stop in for a cup of coffee

So the cook on the minesite has a grocery order, needs to get everything in before spring reclaims the winter road. Heads out and should be back in less than a week. In the meantime a swedish miner takes over the cooking. Not much to work with potatoes and eggs is pretty much all thats left at camp.
Several days go by and the guys are getting a little tired of potatoes and hard boiled eggs for every meal. Hard boiled eggs are green they have been cooked so long. So the guys start asking the swede to do something different instead of hard eggs. “well”,he says i dont know what else to try, i put potatoes and eggs in at same time, potatoes come out soft and eggs are still hard!!
This was the truth as told by an old departed friend.