I'm in the same boat, in that a lot of people have acted very surprised about eating duck eggs. They insist it is gross but I keep telling them they are the best for baking and they are bigger, so less eggs to crack for cooking! A bird egg is a bird egg is a bird egg. They're eggs. They're all the same. Some may taste a little better, but essentially they are all eggy, LOL.
You also have no idea (well, you probably do) how many times I've had to remind people that fertile/organic/farm raised/right from the chicken's butt eggs do not mean we are eating baby chicks! Are we eating DNA? Well, yeah. But not baby chickens. Or baby anything. We're eating the food they would be eating. There is also no difference between my flock's eggs and
walmart/food lion/wherever's eggs. Well, there are differences, but they are still chicken eggs. Mine may or may not be fertile, but they will always be better quality, especially compared to the store bought white eggs. Ours are much more rich with healthy shells.
I've also had people tell me that they wouldn't eat brown eggs. I guess to them, brown = fertile = dead baby chicken inside your stomach. I personally prefer brown eggs to white.
I agree, white chickens = white eggs, and brown chickens = brown eggs, is ridiculous. Even the earlobe color does not work for every chicken.
At a farmer's/crafter's/homemade item people's type of extravaganza (the event is actually just called Farmer's Day
), I had some pigeons set up in show cages, to get some good promotion in. I heard "look at the chickens!" and "is that a chicken?" several times, from kids and grown-ups alike.
I also love how people think hens cannot lay eggs without males. And how they act all surprised when eggs start appearing and they get really confused.
There's a girl I know from school, who got some chicks for the first time. Me and the janitor donated some eggs for our AP Environmental Science class to hatch. This girl got 3 of them I believe. They grew up as mostly indoor pet chickens I think. She messaged me freaking out because she found an egg. She was like "WHAT DO I DO WITH IT!?" Um, eat it? "ISN'T THERE A BABY CHICKEN IN IT!?" Um, no. Not unless she started incubating it, which trust me, she didn't. "BUT I SAW HER ON IT TODAY SO IT MUST HAVE STARTED GROWING AND NOW ITS COLD SO IT MUST BE DEAD OMG" They do usually sit when they lay. Or hover, rather. It was nowhere near long enough or hot enough to start growing. CHILL. OUT.
We were in line at
Walmart, and while the cashier was ringing up our stuff, we got into a conversation about our chickens not producing any eggs lately, thus we had to buy eggs for the first time in forever. I don't remember exactly what we said, but her response was "What? I don't eat no eggs from a chicken's butt. I eat them
walmart eggs"
It took all I could do to NOT laugh out loud. I thought I was going to die. WHERE DOES SHE THINK EGGS COME FROM!?