Dumbest Things People Have Said About Your Chickens/Eggs/Meat

[chicksurreal]

I had a friend who wanted to try some eggs that were not from the store. She had heard about how much better non-commercial eggs were. I gave her a half dozen eggs to give them a try. I Asked her a week later how they were. She said that she ended up throwing them out becuase they were bad. Upon further discussion it came out she was under the impression that an egg with really yellow yoke was bad. and these eggs I gave her must have been really old becuase the yoke was orange.

I never gave her another egg.

Good for you!

Some people are really just... okay, I'm going to self moderate here.

 

[chicksurreal]

I bragged about last year how my pullets produced all thru the winter…really didn't understand how significant the first molt would effect them this year. But still getting enough for me and DH.

Yeah, I got totally spoiled with our first flock. They laid right through the first winter, this year they are dealing with hard molt, lack of sufficient daylight and a spoiled flock mistress. Poor girls.

I refuse to supplement light to demand eggs from them, they are nearly naked and working on purchasing new clothing at the expense of eggs. I'll give them whatever room they need to recover their warmth and dignity. Extra protein in various forms, lots of love and understanding is all I can give them. They've got it! I love my feathered babies!

 

[7 Biddies]

I bragged about last year how my pullets produced all thru the winter…really didn't understand how significant the first molt would effect them this year. But still getting enough for me and DH.

I had to learn that lesson, too. My neighbors will probably be disappointed next year, when they moult.

 

[Sen]

One of my friends once asked me if my blue Ameraucana eggs are blue on the inside, too. I told her no, but in hindsight I should have told her yes, and used a little food coloring on the sly to shock her with a blue egg-white omelette!!

 

[Blooie]

One of my friends once asked me if my blue Ameraucana eggs are blue on the inside, too. I told her no, but in hindsight I should have told her yes, and used a little food coloring on the sly to shock her with a blue egg-white omelette!!

That would have worked! My son was a very popular head cook at a local restaurant, and he would come out when things were a little slow and schmooz with the customers. One regular in particular enjoyed bantering back and forth with Kenny. Butch always had chicken fried steak for his Wednesday lunches, but he'd change up the gravy - sometimes white country gravy, sometimes brown gravy. So a new waitress taking Butch's order one afternoon asked him what kind of gravy he'd like on his CFS. Butch replied, "Tell Kenny I want purple." There's a little grocery store a few doors down from the restaurant so Kenny gave the dishwasher some money and had him run to the Merc and get some food coloring. You guessed it - Kenny made purple gravy for Butch!

 

[7 Biddies]

One of my friends once asked me if my blue Ameraucana eggs are blue on the inside, too. I told her no, but in hindsight I should have told her yes, and used a little food coloring on the sly to shock her with a blue egg-white omelette!!

Actually, the inside of the blue and green shells is the same color as the outside, instead of being white like with brown eggs. So, you could've told her "yes" and really confused her.

But, for anyone to really wonder if the egg itself is blue/green is ridiculous. Do white eggs have white yolks, or brown eggs have brown? <shaking head> People! One has to wonder.

 

[Kusanar]

One of my friends once asked me if my blue Ameraucana eggs are blue on the inside, too. I told her no, but in hindsight I should have told her yes, and used a little food coloring on the sly to shock her with a blue egg-white omelette!!

I made green deviled eggs for my mom to take to an Easter meal once... They were having ham as a main dish and then doing a side dish pot luck so we thought green eggs would be perfect! Hard boiled the eggs, took the yolk out, then tossed all the egg halves in a bowl of cool green tinted (food dye) water to soak while I made the filling out of the yolks, by the time it was mixed up, I had bright green eggs to fill! Of course, if you scratched them or did anything to damage them in any way they would get white spots on them again because the color was on the very outside and didn't soak in much at all.

No one would eat them!!!

 

[Peep_Show]

Obviously no Dr. Seuss fans in the crowd there.



My mom would always caution us not to eat blue food......

 

[mossyroo]

Quote:
With us it was just the yellow snow.

 

[7 Biddies]

I made green deviled eggs for my mom to take to an Easter meal once... They were having ham as a main dish and then doing a side dish pot luck so we thought green eggs would be perfect! Hard boiled the eggs, took the yolk out, then tossed all the egg halves in a bowl of cool green tinted (food dye) water to soak while I made the filling out of the yolks, by the time it was mixed up, I had bright green eggs to fill! Of course, if you scratched them or did anything to damage them in any way they would get white spots on them again because the color was on the very outside and didn't soak in much at all.

No one would eat them!!!

Back in my "coffee, tea, or me" days of the mid-1960's to early 1970's, airlines were in heavy competition to provide great service (this was before discount fares and freaky flier points; you paid full coach or full first class, period). Meals were "cooked on board". Well, not exactly, they were started in the kitchens of the catering company, placed on stainless steel plates, wrapped in foil, and we would complete the cooking in convection ovens in the galleys of the planes. Omelets were a popular breakfast item. Unfortunately, they usually got overcooked in those ovens which turned the outside of them green, like the yolk of an overcooked hard boiled egg. Oh, the overused and worn out jokes about "green eggs and ham" I had to listen to for years!