Do you know people grossed out by fresh eggs?

[trilyn]

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I'm stealing this idea-esp for my own father who grossed out when I tried to give him a dozen free range eggs. He actually backed up away from me and just put his hands in front of him, like he was trying to ward off the eggs. What, they were going to jump up and attack him?! He told me he couldn't eat eggs that weren't washed-I said to him "You wash your vegetables don't you?! Look at it that way-now you have to wash the eggs too".

"No, no, I'm just persnickety that way"

I told him to wash them just before he uses them, if it'll make him feel better-no go

 

[Momtomtse]

Wow, I needed a laugh today, and reading all these certainly did the trick! Can't wait to see the reactions we're sure to get from a few citified friends

 

[gaberdeen]

These are some of the funniest posts I've read yet. This is exactly the reason I got my daughter some chickens this past spring. I want her to know where her food comes from. I want her to understand that often when we eat something an animal gave its life for us. I really am getting more homesteading urges the older I get ( I just wish it would stop raining here during the week when I have off from work so I could get the garden planted).

 

[LA~Poulet]

We've only had our birds a couple weeks but a friend came over yesterday to play & his mom asked how we knew there were no chicks in our eggs. "Because we dont' have a rooster"

"Oh, but they sit on them, don't they?"


As if sitting on them was all that was required to reproduce. I seriously am wondering how many people failed to retain anything taught in basic biology.

 

[OlliOlliOlli]

Ironically enough I just handed my neighbor 2 eggs with chicken crap on them...and he was like "Oh I don't care! I love you eggs!!!!"

 

[bywaterdog]

Four years ago when we first got together,my other half thought that she had to "warm-up" the microwave before using it. Education can change people for the better.

 

[JLMom]

This does not shock me in the least. I work with new mothers, and you would be surprised by how many people 1) Didn't know that women produce milk after they have a baby, and 2) Think that breastfeeding is "gross" (and even a few who say its 'un-natural'). I mean, if its not for you, fine. But unnatural! Really, people?

 

[FRENZY]

Once I had offered my brother some fresh eggs.
He said that he was afraid that there might be
a partial developed chick inside.
I told him that would not happen.that I collect them every day.
A week went by.
I called and asked how he liked them.
He said that the eggs are way too rich for him.
That he normally eats 4 eggs for breakfast and mine are so
rich that he can only eat 2.

I told him that considering him tring to diet anyway,
That 2 are better than 4.
I could sense an argument happening.
Ive come to conclusion that he is scared of fresh eggs.

 

[19hhbelgian]

When I first met my hubby, he wouldn't eat brown eggs, let alone fresh! OH HOW GROSS!!! Well, I got him over the brown egg fear

and have now changed him into a farmer

Since we had to cut back, and I couldn't buy free range organic eggs anymore, he said we could get our own chickens & get eggs that way

I guess he's over the "fresh egg phobia" too! And boy am I glad - I just LOVE my chickies!!

 

[country freedom]

My family lived for 5 1/2 years on our Pappaw's farm in the 1970s, my mama and daddy both took care of chickens, turkeys, pigs, cattle, etc.
Canning a large vegie garden, collecting fresh brown and white eggs from a mixed flock of Rhode Island Reds, New Hampshires, and White Leghorns, raising and using the chickens, turkeys, pigs and cattle for food.
We ate like this all those years.
Why does my sister insist that white eggs are way more nutritious, and lower in chloresterol than brown eggs? Was it the media back in the 1980s/1990s that claimed that was true?

Whenever I can, I always get brown eggs - wanna know why? I like the different shades of egg color.