The Food Thread
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They don't have a yolk, they are called wind, fart, or fairy eggs depending on what brand of yokel inhabitants dominate your region lolPJ_Soul said:
That's pretty cool. Do freakishly small eggs taste any different?rgambs said:Yesterday's largest and smallest eggs.
79 grams and 8 grams, which smashes Ethel's previous low of 25 grams.
It happens when a bit of reproductive tissue get sloughed into the oviduct and confuses it into surrounding it with albumen.
They are typically pretty rare, but Ethel has a fucked up reproductive system and she lays them as often as not.
The taste is no different, but they are often cracked because they have very thin shells.
This one was frozen solid and cracked so I will feed it back to them with the others that froze, it's been very cold and I can't check the coop every hour.Monkey Driven, Call this Living?0 -
Some folks call them cock eggs, people used to think the roosters laid them.Monkey Driven, Call this Living?0
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Wow, you really managed to make that cute tiny egg sound absolutely disgusting.
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PJ_Soul said:Wow, you really managed to make that cute tiny egg sound absolutely disgusting.
If you think about it too hard in the wrong way, anything to do with eating dairy, eggs, and meat is disgusting.
I'm not really susceptible to being grossed out by the origins and quirks of food.
I don't care if a hotdog looks like a milkshake when they are making it, and I don't care if it is filled with tendons and ligaments and organs and scraps.
Tastes good.Monkey Driven, Call this Living?0 -
Even with ketchup on it.Monkey Driven, Call this Living?0
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I am generally the same, but I actually have a specific gross out going on with eggs. I like eggs, but the stories about fetal beaks and shit, and then the snot-like texture and that hunk of umbilical cord... I deal with it, but there is something about it that gets to me too.rgambs said:PJ_Soul said:Wow, you really managed to make that cute tiny egg sound absolutely disgusting.
If you think about it too hard in the wrong way, anything to do with eating dairy, eggs, and meat is disgusting.
I'm not really susceptible to being grossed out by the origins and quirks of food.
I don't care if a hotdog looks like a milkshake when they are making it, and I don't care if it is filled with tendons and ligaments and organs and scraps.
Tastes good.
But generally I'm really chill about that stuff. Like you, I figure if it tastes good and has a good texture and isn't literally going to kill me or make me sick, it really doesn't matter much to me at all. I know there might be assholes in my hotdog.... assholes are still meat.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata0 -
Hahaha das sum gud meat dare!PJ_Soul said:
I am generally the same, but I actually have a specific gross out going on with eggs. I like eggs, but the stories about fetal beaks and shit, and then the snot-like texture and that hunk of umbilical cord... I deal with it, but there is something about it that gets to me too.rgambs said:PJ_Soul said:Wow, you really managed to make that cute tiny egg sound absolutely disgusting.
If you think about it too hard in the wrong way, anything to do with eating dairy, eggs, and meat is disgusting.
I'm not really susceptible to being grossed out by the origins and quirks of food.
I don't care if a hotdog looks like a milkshake when they are making it, and I don't care if it is filled with tendons and ligaments and organs and scraps.
Tastes good.
But generally I'm really chill about that stuff. Like you, I figure if it tastes good and has a good texture and isn't literally going to kill me or make me sick, it really doesn't matter much to me at all. I know there might be assholes in my hotdog.... assholes are still meat.
Eggs are kind of gross, slimy as fuck and clear? What kind of food is clear and then turns white when cooked? Weird.
I don't know about fetal eggs, I've never heard a legit story and although it is technically possible, it would have to be done on purpose. A fertilized egg doesn't begin developing without specific heat and humidity conditions that have to stay steady almost constantly, and no eggs bought commercially are fertilized anyways. That makes it pretty much impossible for a grocery store egg to contain any developed tissue, and incredibly unlikely even for a farm egg.
Pretty gross thought though, crack an egg and find a beak? Yikes.
I'm firing up my egg cooker tonight and doing a dozen for eating throughout the week, about halfway between medium and hard cooked. I might devil them up, but if I do I know I will eat them all in 2 days.Monkey Driven, Call this Living?0 -
If it makes you feel any better, the "umbilical cord" you see is called the chaleza.
Eggs have several layers and the inner most albumen (chalaziferous) is thick to protect the yolk. As the egg travels down the oviduct it rotates, and that membrane twists into a rope of sorts, which anchors the chalaziferous layer and protects the yolk by keeping it in the center of the egg. When you break an egg into a bowl, the chalazae snap away from the shell membrane and rebound against the yolk. Those little white blobs or strings are often mistaken for tissue developing, but they are just egg white twisted tight.
A chick develops from a small dot on the yolk, the blastodisc.Post edited by rgambs onMonkey Driven, Call this Living?0 -
That is good to know. It doesn't make that snot rope any less gross, but it's good to be informed!rgambs said:If it makes you feel any better, the "umbilical cord" you see is called the chaleza.
Eggs have several layers and the inner most albumen (chalaziferous) is thick to protect the yolk. As the egg travels down the oviduct it rotates, and that membrane twists into a rope of sorts, which anchors the chalaziferous layer and protects the yolk by keeping it in the center of the egg. When you break an egg into a bowl, the chalazae snap away from the shell membrane and rebound against the yolk. Those little white blobs or strings are often mistaken for tissue developing, but they are just egg white twisted tight.
A chick develops from a small dot on the yolk, the blastodisc.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata0 -
I have no idea what weird freak of nature is going on, or what went wrong at the chicken farm, but just-forming fetuses in eggs actually is a real thing. I would also doubt it and think it was impossible, except it happened to someone I know and they for sure weren't lying about it. They got it from the grocery store. It wasn't a fully formed beak or anything, but it was definitely the beginnings of one, along with some other shit.rgambs said:
Hahaha das sum gud meat dare!PJ_Soul said:
I am generally the same, but I actually have a specific gross out going on with eggs. I like eggs, but the stories about fetal beaks and shit, and then the snot-like texture and that hunk of umbilical cord... I deal with it, but there is something about it that gets to me too.rgambs said:PJ_Soul said:Wow, you really managed to make that cute tiny egg sound absolutely disgusting.
If you think about it too hard in the wrong way, anything to do with eating dairy, eggs, and meat is disgusting.
I'm not really susceptible to being grossed out by the origins and quirks of food.
I don't care if a hotdog looks like a milkshake when they are making it, and I don't care if it is filled with tendons and ligaments and organs and scraps.
Tastes good.
But generally I'm really chill about that stuff. Like you, I figure if it tastes good and has a good texture and isn't literally going to kill me or make me sick, it really doesn't matter much to me at all. I know there might be assholes in my hotdog.... assholes are still meat.
Eggs are kind of gross, slimy as fuck and clear? What kind of food is clear and then turns white when cooked? Weird.
I don't know about fetal eggs, I've never heard a legit story and although it is technically possible, it would have to be done on purpose. A fertilized egg doesn't begin developing without specific heat and humidity conditions that have to stay steady almost constantly, and no eggs bought commercially are fertilized anyways. That makes it pretty much impossible for a grocery store egg to contain any developed tissue, and incredibly unlikely even for a farm egg.
Pretty gross thought though, crack an egg and find a beak? Yikes.
I'm firing up my egg cooker tonight and doing a dozen for eating throughout the week, about halfway between medium and hard cooked. I might devil them up, but if I do I know I will eat them all in 2 days.
With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata0 -
This conversation reminds me of when I ate Balut.
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Doesn't it have a horrid smell?
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I think downing Balut was on a Fear Factor episode back when Joe Rogan hosted it.
Man, they ate (or attempted to eat) some nasty shit.0 -
hey foodies ... looking to do a food crawl somewhere ... probably stateside ... i'm in toronto and my friend is in vancouver ... here's our criteria:
* bikeable city ... plan to rent bikes to travel around
* good authentic food ... looking for divy hole in the wall / street food kind of places
* nice public places ... can't eat every minute of the day so to be able to chill in a park or a market would be cool
any suggestions? take NYC off the list ... thanks
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