My cousin is afraid to eat fresh eggs

[MasterSparky]

Don't feel bad... My sister wouldn't even touch my girls' eggs... If they only knew what's in a hot dog...

 

[jvls1942]

you all probably know this, but to determine what color of eggs a chicken will lay, look at the color of her ear ....

awhile back my wife got a free dozen of eggs from the grodery store.. I went to scramble a few and I kept stabbing at the bowl with the whisk. my wife asked me what I was doing..I said I am trying to break the rest of the yolks..she laughed at me and said,you broke all of them aleady.. the reason I did not think so was because the batter did not get much darker because of the pale yolks..LOL

.........jiminwisc.............

 

[TCLynx]

The consumeristic belief that all store bought stuff is "safer" and "better" than home made/home grown stuff is what we are banging out heads against.

For some decades now advertising and commercial agriculture have been trying to separate the "normal" people from those who produce the food.

So many people really have no clue. I once had some one tell me I was a vegetarian as they watched me eat a chicken sandwich. I'm guessing that person probably things that eggs are produced in a factory since a chicken is apparently a vegetable or something.

These people may never know the pleasure of eating a meal from their yard. I love the feeling of eating a dinner that was grown mostly in my own garden and it is usually so fresh and tasty.

I suppose I was a little worried when we got our first fresh eggs from our girls. I didn't know if they would taste too much different from the store eggs for me. I need not have been so worried cause we have been buying the cage free large brown eggs for some time and the only major difference between our girls eggs is that they are fresher with a little more variation depending on what treats they are getting in their diet and what part of the garden they are allow to work over at the time.

We just need to learn as much ourselves and try to gently educate people while we can. When the collapse comes, hopefully we can teach.

 

[wyliefarms]

A funny comment from one of my daugthers egg customers.

The neighbor needed to borrow a couple eggs. She gave them a blue and a brown one....they had never seen an egg that color before...and the husband is a vet!
They were wondering where to get a blue egg to replace the one they borrowed!
Our customer said that any color would do

Sarah

 

[freemotion]

Ha-ha!! I have a ready answer that works for me, when someone looks suspiciously at the different colors of eggshells. I tell them that it is like my dh and I (mixed couple), we are a different color on the outside, but the same color on the inside!

Shuts 'em right up. White people get uncomfortable at the mention of skin color. It cracks me up....

 

[Wifezilla]

OMG I think I love you!!!!

 

[Tweeza]

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Okay, I have to chime in. I would rather eat a tangerine that a bird might have pooped on than one picked by a worker who pooped and didn't wash his/her hands afterwards!!! Farm fresh anything is the way to go.

 

[cmom]

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So true. I'm a RIR.

 

[FrontPorchIndiana]

It's threads like these that make me ever so grateful to have been born and raised on a farm where we ate eggs still warm from the chickens butt and where I was protected from all those crazy people.

 

[tygab]

Ok, I grew up in a mid sized IL town, nestled among corn and soybean fields, and we had some local stuff available to us, but this was during a time when things like TV dinners were the rage, and well, we just got our food at the grocery store. Where I grew up all the eggs were white. I didn't know brown eggs existed until I got to the East for college, and out here white eggs are rare.

At first I wouldn't eat the brown eggs, even though they were just the same. I now associate more local/natural with them since mine lay brown (and blue). I should get some white egg layers someday.

Point is its very easy to be disconnected from food production and most people are. Thankfully the convergence of concerns about food safety, environmental impact of food production, treatment of animals, and even the economy is leading to a lot of interest in different food production methods.