Fear of fresh eggs?

[halfwaynowhere]

my sister won't touch any eggs that come from my chickens. Even when we had chickens as kids, she didn't like their eggs. She won't use them for baking or anything. She's not much of an egg-eater, though. Swears she's "allergic". she'll only use store-bought eggs (she likes the lighter, yellower yolks instead of the nice dark yolks from our eggs). She's a nutcase, lol. Of course, she'll only drink milk bought at certain stores, swears she can taste a difference in different "brands", and she'll only buy name-brand groceries because she can "taste the difference". I say, who cares if it tastes a little different? it still tastes good, and its cheaper!

 

[akcharlie1960]

I'm kind of weirded out by it myself. Like most I was born and raised on store boughts and at any time of my life could eat as many fried or scrambled eggs you could give me. We got our first 3 bird flock last summer that started laying Thanksgiving week. I have made 6 quiches since then and have no problem but still balk at fried or scrambled. I'm actually giving eggs away at work cause my girls are laying so many and I eat so few. And I've eaten some pretty nasty stuff in Army survival schools. Go figure.

 

[WVchick71]

My mother-in-law is the same way. She says that she doesnt like them unless they come from the store. She tells us they taste different ect...she also wont eat fresh beef or pork. My father in law was raising cattle with his brother and they butchered one, he bought a freezer,took home his share of the meat and my mother in law refused to eat it.

 

[elizabethbinary]

I've met people like that. I don't think it's just a city thing. I was born and raised in a giant city and all I could think of when I got my first egg was, "YAY! Now I don't have to go back to that tasteless junk again!!!" I spent a good two hours that morning figuring out how I was going to have that egg....

 

[SillyChicken]

Never seen anything gross about it... it's where they all come from!

 

[gryeyes]

I love my hens' eggs. They have spoiled restaurant omelets for me. I did "wonder" about my duck eggs for a while, but now I love them so much I am selling almost all of my chicken eggs. Gosh, they're good!

A friend of mine said she couldn't taste the difference between store-bought and MY eggs. I was so annoyed ialmost stopped giving her any... But she's on a limited income, so I still give her eggs. But really, what's up with that? Her taster must be broken!

 

[SallyF]

Store bought eggs do taste different. They taste like the inside of a refrigerator.

 

[peepdaddy]

I know several people like this, including some of my own family. My kids will open the cabinet doors and claim there's nothing to eat. The cabinets will be full. It's just that their favorite isn't there! It's easy to be picky when food is so plentiful. I think that not eating "home grown" eggs is an extension of this pickiness. I grew up in a very poor family. I learned not to turn my nose up at anything edible. I think that kind of experience would change most folk's attitude. Can you imagine someone from an impoverished area saying "I won't eat that egg. It tastes different"?

 

[BrianT]

We got our flock's first eggs this year and it was a little weird for me at first. I don't know why but it's all good now.

 

[sourland]

Sadly enough as a society we have become so far removed from the reality of farm life that there are people who really don't know where the food we eat comes from. What the heck, you mean meat doesn't come from the grocery store in those little cellophane packages? And eggs in cartons, and milk in jugs or cartons, and.