We were at a friends one night. We are much more "country" than many of our friends...so they all call our house/property "the farm" even though its only 5 acres. One friend says he doesn't like eggs because he's heard of people cracking them open and there being a half grown chick in the egg. I told him that we collect eggs a couple times a day and that for someone to get a "half grown chick" it would've had to have been under a broody hen for around two weeks. He said " well how do you know she didn't lay it that way?" I had to explain they don't "lay them that way" and that all eggs are just yokes and whites when they are laid. ...don't think he believed me. Then he asked how eggs are different colors after he saw our egg basket. (All shades of brown and blue/green) We just said different breeds of chickens. Then the question that most chicken owners have heard...."We'll what about the white eggs" another girl pipes up like she knows all about it and says "Well, they bleach them," hubby and me tried to explain while laughing that eggs aren't bleached. That, once again, different chicken. She didn't believe us and i think was actually mad. The lack of knowledge of where people's food comes from is actually scary. I don't expect them to know everything about chickens...but to not know even the basics of where eggs come from, and that chicks don't come right out of a hen......??? ****deep breath***
