what does "brains and eggs"mean? The elder Connally would drive his scarred black Model T Ford; Carlos Estrada, his Mexican helper, sat alongside with the knives and saws; eight-year-old John, Jr. perched in the back, cradling in his arms a battered bucket. It was his task to carry water while the two men carved and chopped, and because “brains and eggs” were a rancher's delicacy, he would always remember how carefully they had handled the brains, the precious light-blue brains.