My cousin is afraid to eat fresh eggs

[Chicabee19]

Put a couple eggs in your pockets and drive around the block.

good one

 

[WoodlandWoman]

I needed a good laugh and you are all sure supplying them!

 

[SproutGirl]

I think it depends upon what a person is exposed to. If something is unfamiliar to a person, it isn't going to be appetizing. For example, I once was visiting my sister in So Cal, and I picked a lovely tangerine from her neighbor's tree (they did not harvest them at all!) and my teen aged niece was completely revolted by the idea that I would actually eat it! "What if a bird pooped on it?" she asked me. Regardless of the fact that I peeled it, offered to wash one for her, and reminded her that the fruit that they sell at Walmart are also grown outdoors where birds might poop on them, she was disgusted at my eating the tangerine. She watched me eat it very intently and made a face the whole time! She just was never exposed to eating anything fresh in her entire life despite living right next to a lovely CA tangerine tree! Just like your poor cousin and your delicious eggs!

 

[apukanski]

I was a little weirded out eating eggs my chickens laid.You gotta get past that. It was easy after the first one.They are just sooo good.

 

[freemotion]

Wow. We are a society so out of touch with our food, and in such a few short years....Bet all our moms and dads ate fresh foods, grew gardens, or at least were aware that carrots are roots and eggs come from chicken's butts! And were ok with that!

I recently read Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. It was quite good. As a result, I ordered cheesemaking supplies, and then could not find raw milk in my area, so am going to breed my two pet goats....eek. I will have about five months to get ready for that, thank goodness!

My chicken passion sprang from reading Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon, recommended by a naturopathic doctor, in my quest to resolve some health issues. Resolved, mostly. But my kitchen, yard, garden, coop, and cooking skills have put me in a lonely category. I am thinking of starting a thread on NT cooking....

It is important that we expose people in our sphere of influence to as much as we can about chickens and eggs, at least. This is the only way that cruelty in the industry will ever be addressed, if more people object, and purchase cruelty-free eggs from a neighbor, or raise their own.

On a humerous note: Years ago, we shared a two-family home with another couple, she from Texas and he from an island from the South Seas. He did not own shoes until he moved to the US at age nine, and as a boy he and his friends would play in the jungle all day and swim in the ocean. When they got hungry, they would get a bat or two, and kill and cook them over a little fire they made.

Fast forward twenty years, and we planted our first vegetable garden together. One day, he saw a bird fly over and poop on the beans. He was so horrified, he then wanted to erect a tarp over the garden to keep it clean! Bats, I whispered to his wife....bats!

 

[tunaoftheland]

My family was weirded out by them at first too. My mom is one of the anti brown egg people and requested I not get brown egg layers because they were "too real." Of course, the EEs lay green and blue eggs, so for the first month or so I was the only one eating them. My mom said "they look like bird eggs!" And I said, "They are bird eggs!"

But slowly one by one my family members have dared to try, and now my girls can't lay enough! And by now when the cochins I was given are laying, my mom is fine with eating brown eggs. It definitely is funny, and kind of sad, how removed most people are from where what they eat comes from. We bought asparagus at the grocery store a couple days ago that said 'Product of Peru'!

 

[SproutGirl]

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Hey, if you've got the space and climate, you might try growing your own asparagus. It tastes nothing like the stuff shipped over from other countries! This Spring I had my first freshly picked asparagus, and there was almost not enough for the pan, I ate the raw stuff so fast! Oh, it's like nothing else! So good! Between that and your eggs, you'll never go out to eat again!

 

[MissPrissy]

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More good eggs for the rest of us. LOL

 

[Imp]

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Cracked eggs in cartons etc. are pasturized as well.

 

[tunaoftheland]

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Hey, if you've got the space and climate, you might try growing your own asparagus. It tastes nothing like the stuff shipped over from other countries! This Spring I had my first freshly picked asparagus, and there was almost not enough for the pan, I ate the raw stuff so fast! Oh, it's like nothing else! So good! Between that and your eggs, you'll never go out to eat again!

We did use to grow it. My favorite part was going out in the patch and just seeing stalks of asparagus sticking out of the ground. Most things you have to pick off something, but asparagus is just right there. I never tried it raw though! I'll have to, once we (hopefully) get ours going again!