Farm Fresh Eggs- weirded out!!

[OctMtnWoods]

I'm not going to be able to help.

I can eat eggs, UNTIL I start to think about what they really are. Then, I kind of start to get weirded out.

Meat or fish I have no problem with as long as I've never seen it alive or it has a face still attached while cooking it.

Call me strange.

 

[bumbershoot]

Started this post hours ago then had to run out for errands.

LOL, I know what you mean. My sister raises chickens and I have to just close my eyes and dig in. They *are* delicious.

And if you really want to be grossed out, here's a tip from my sister: Scroll if you dare...
Smack an egg or two on the henhouse floor--the chickens will eat it up, shell and all. It makes their egg shells harder, resists cracking. I told you. Gross.

Chickens aren't the brightest in the bunch.

Get over this already and enjoy the fresh eggs!!

YES! You have NO idea how good those eggs are going to taste. Store-bought are going to taste like old nasty rubber from now on.

What I want to know is how we all STARTED eating eggs... I mean think about it.
One day a man is watching a bird and its struggling... I mean really pouring its heart out and he just can't take his eyes off of it. Then all of a sudden this strange round thing comes out. It is white with some goo on it and such and he starts to think? This came out of where? Maybe I should eat it? I mean what was he thinking eating that!

Similar to how we started drinking milk as adults, and milk from other species. Makes not even a bit of sense when you think about it.

Call me removed from the family farm and call me dumb but I don't want eggs that come from a chicken in my back yard.

I would love to be a vegetarian but I hate vegetables so I have to eat meat and dairy products....but I don't eat things with faces.

The part that makes no sense is that you're not eating anything with a face when you eat an egg.

It's not confusing.....I can't eat meat from the cow that I saw grow up from a tiny calf. I can eat meat from the store because that comes from some random cow that I am not personally involved with.

I'm not alone in my thoughts...l know a lot of people that feel this way.

It's time for you to find new veggies and some grains you like. Time to be a veggie. Vegan, even, because if you really start thinknig about your reasoning, you'll see it's not logical. I won't eat anything that I wouldn't actually kill and prepare...so...the occasional fish works for me, but I haven't even had that in over a year b/c the idea is grossing me out more and more, and the reality is that I probably wouldn't go fishing, so I have no business eating something I wouldn't kill.

OP..would it help you to know, that unless the hen is around a rooster, there is no chick inside the egg?

Exactly.

My in-laws have some chickens also. I also refuse to eat the eggs - they don't always refrigerate them right away and they aren't pasturized, etc.....
It totally grosses me out. My husband and son will eat them and they have never been sick, but --- yuck!

You only need (and *need* should be in quotes IMO) to pasteurize things when it's from commercial production. It's to protect people from the nasty bugs that you get when you put thousans upon thousands of animals all literallly on top of each other, passing bugs from one to the other. If you have your own chickens in your own yard, you can just wash the egg off if you want to, no worries whatsoever. As for refrigeration, it's well known to people who understand that that fresh FRESH eggs don't need to be refrigerated. I went to a family reunion camping on my uncle's land one summer in Montana. I came with a cooler with eggs, and all of these older uncles explained to me that eggs really don't need that, even when pasteurized. Especially when left normal, eggs have all they need, for a good amount of time, to stay OK. Of course, eventually they'll go bad, but usually people don't leave them that long.

OK, dumb question at what point if you don't take the eggs from the nest do the eggs turn into baby chicks, and how does that whole process work I'm a city girl, what can I say

Only if they were fertilized. But chickens will lay eggs even if there's no rooster around. When we had chickens, we noticed that the hens would NOT leave their nests if their eggs were fertilized. We had a rooster every so often, and there was a pretty big difference in the way the hens acted towards their eggs.

...snapped the neck and it was STILL MOVING and then it ran around

Hence the phrase "running around like a chicken with its head cut off".

 

[MichelleVW]

It's time for you to find new veggies and some grains you like. Time to be a veggie. Vegan, even, because if you really start thinking about your reasoning, you'll see it's not logical. I won't eat anything that I wouldn't actually kill and prepare...so...the occasional fish works for me, but I haven't even had that in over a year b/c the idea is grossing me out more and more, and the reality is that I probably wouldn't go fishing, so I have no business eating something I wouldn't kill.


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When did I ever say that my reasoning was logical? I will never kill anything but I'm not giving up meat.....I just couldn't eat anything that I had once seen alive.

Doesn't matter to me if you or anyone else agree with my way of thinking, because you're not the ones stocking my fridge!

Oh...and for the record it doesn't matter where the eggs come from, I don't eat them because they taste nasty to me!! I'll eat them mixed in cake/cookies/etc but never would I eat regular cooked eggs...GROSS!

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

LOL, I know what you mean. My sister raises chickens and I have to just close my eyes and dig in. They *are* delicious.

And if you really want to be grossed out, here's a tip from my sister: Scroll if you dare...
Smack an egg or two on the henhouse floor--the chickens will eat it up, shell and all. It makes their egg shells harder, resists cracking. I told you. Gross.

EWWW so that is just like eating an embryo. I do not eat eggs if I can help it at all. OP I know what you mean. I do not know how people can raise animals on an farm get to know them and then eat them !

 

[DVCLiz]

I'm not sure I understand... you eat meat but won't eat things with faces?

Personally I would love farm-fresh eggs; we only ever had them when we visited my great aunt and uncle's farm in Vermont and I remember them being SO much better than the eggs "at home" (from the store)... and this was a LONG time ago!

And IMHO, just because someone has the heebie-jeebies about something that came from what is essentially a pet, isn't really a very good reason to call her dumb The thought of having to eat any mushroom gives ME the creeps; seriously, I would rather starve than have to eat mushrooms. I imagine that's pretty dumb to some people too...

But you're not saying you would eat a mushroom that is commercially grown, then turn your nose up at a fresh one - it isn't the same thing at all. (Although mushrooms aren't exactly the best example, since eating a fresh one could kill you unless you knew exactly what kind it was!)

Of course you can have an opinion, but at the same time you should have some manners in the way that you express your opinion. You wouldn't talk that way to someone in real life, don't do it here.

I *get* this thread, I guess. Teacups knows how ridiculous her feelings are and she's kind of poking fun at herself. I do this myself IRL - we all have some silly quirks or phobias that are so off-the-wall that we talk about them with friends and chuckle. Polite people chuckle along with us.

I would TOTALLY tell any friend of mine who said this, "That is the dumbest thing I ever heard!" It just seems absurd to me that you would eat an egg from the grocery store but not one from your own chicken in your own backyard.

And it's NOT an issue of not being able to eat something that has a face - are people forgetting that the chicken doesn't have to DIE in order to lay an egg? It's a byproduct, not the flesh of the animal!!!! It's not chicken nuggets!!!! It's an EGGGGGGGG!



teacups, throw away all the eggs you want - but remember, in your OP you DID ask us to convince you that they were fine!! If you still can't eat them then you just have a weird quirk. But it IS weird, just so you know.

 

[disfan07]

Well, i would have an easy decision about this subject. I'm allergic to eggs so store bought, farm fresh...no difference to me...haha

 

[teacups]

But you're not saying you would eat a mushroom that is commercially grown, then turn your nose up at a fresh one - it isn't the same thing at all. (Although mushrooms aren't exactly the best example, since eating a fresh one could kill you unless you knew exactly what kind it was!)



I would TOTALLY tell any friend of mine who said this, "That is the dumbest thing I ever heard!" It just seems absurd to me that you would eat an egg from the grocery store but not one from your own chicken in your own backyard.

And it's NOT an issue of not being able to eat something that has a face - are people forgetting that the chicken doesn't have to DIE in order to lay an egg? It's a byproduct, not the flesh of the animal!!!! It's not chicken nuggets!!!! It's an EGGGGGGGG!



teacups, throw away all the eggs you want - but remember, in your OP you DID ask us to convince you that they were fine!! If you still can't eat them then you just have a weird quirk. But it IS weird, just so you know.

Are you trying to convince me to eat them? Oh sorry. I thought you were just set on being mean and now you are trying to prove why you should. I'm sorry it had to go this way. If you read you will see that I am trying to get over this. Why must you call me stupid? Is it stupid when people want to go to WDW and ride the rides but then they get sick at the thought of the motion? I am not stupid. Just grossed out.

Anyway.... we now have 10 eggs so tomorrow will be scrambled eggs! (we had something come up this morning and we had to dash out the door and didnt get home until 3PM. But there were more eggs waiting LOL! We are getting 4 a day.) Update tomorrow!

 

[DVCLiz]

Are you trying to convince me to eat them? Oh sorry. I thought you were just set on being mean and now you are trying to prove why you should. I'm sorry it had to go this way. If you read you will see that I am trying to get over this. Why must you call me stupid? Is it stupid when people want to go to WDW and ride the rides but then they get sick at the thought of the motion? I am not stupid. Just grossed out.

Anyway.... we now have 10 eggs so tomorrow will be scrambled eggs! (we had something come up this morning and we had to dash out the door and didnt get home until 3PM. But there were more eggs waiting LOL! We are getting 4 a day.) Update tomorrow!

teacups, I'm sorry I sound so mean - I just really, really don't understand this. If you said the idea of eating an egg made you sick because they came out of a chicken, then I could see it. But you don't seem to have any problem eating an egg - just eating one from a real chicken that is on your property. And from what I know of fresh eggs vs. grocery store eggs, the fresh ones are so much better!! To me, it would be like saying you won't eat blueberries off the bush in your backyard that you have grown organically because the idea of eating it makes you sick but you'll eat the container from the grocery store that has had pesticides sprayed on it. It just doesn't make logical sense.

But I see now that this might be a real phobia instead of just a "Look how silly I am" and that is a different story. Since I asked you in my first post if you were really serious and you didn't anwer, I assumed you were stretching the truth. If not, then my tone was too harsh and I'm sorry.

It's not the end of the world if you never eat an egg.

 

[browneyes106]

My paternal grandmother always raised chickens for fresh eggs. She gave some weekly and they tasted really good.

 

[tonilea]

EWWW so that is just like eating an embryo. I do not eat eggs if I can help it at all. OP I know what you mean. I do not know how people can raise animals on an farm get to know them and then eat them !

No, an egg + sperm = embryo. An egg is just an egg.

 

[bellebuzzntink]

teacups, I don't know what the chances are that you live in west Houston, but if you do, I'll be happy to come pick up those eggs from you! Assuming of course you don't like them, which you will! Hope you enjoy your breakfast!

 

[Buckalew11]

I cooked my first farm fresh egg this past fall ('08). A friend has a small farm and gave me some. I get a little weirded out by eggs anyway (have only eaten them for about 2 years now). So, I just want to tell you that they are very good and very different from a store bought egg. I think you will be nicely surprised.

I could never ring a chicken's neck and eat it but I've had other birds that my DH has killed like duck and pheasant and I didn't care for the duck but the pheasant was very good. Of course, they were not caught in the back yard and had their neck's rung either...

I'm betting you will like the eggs and your DD will love them because they are better and she will be so proud! And she should be!!

And also want to say I do not think DVCLiz was trying to be mean. I hope y'all can reach some kind of understanding of your (both) posts.

 

[luvsJack]

Teacups, eating farm fresh anything is something that is hard for some people to get used to. My husband was raised on a farm of sorts. There were 7 kids and not much money; they had to raise what they ate. There are just some things that I do not like (the meat for instance), its just what a person is used to.

Don't try to make yourself eat a whole egg. Just try a taste. And if you can get someone else to cook it, trying it would be even easier .

 

[threeboysmom]

OK, I feel the need to come to Teacups' defense.

I don't own chickens... I am as far from a farm girl as you will ever get, LOL.

I eat eggs all the time. LOVE them all different ways. But.... the thought of eating a fresh warm egg right out of my chicken's butt.... ewwww... I don't think I could stomach it. I'd feel sick.

Yes, it's illogical. Where did the eggs in my carton come from?? But at least I don't have to see it... feel them warm.... wash them off... I just don't think about it. But with fresh eggs, you're forced to think about it!

Seriously, I really think I'd be sick if I ate them.

I'm sure it gets easier after the first time though.

Teacups, maybe use those fresh eggs in baking at first?? To kind of ease into the idea?? I think that's where I would start...

 

[Jennasis]

I could be wrong, and I hope it has been mentioned before in the thread but the eggs DO NOT COME OUT OF THE CHICKENS BUTT anymore than a child comes out of a woman's butt.

 

[tzolkin]

I could be wrong, and I hope it has been mentioned before in the thread but the eggs DO NOT COME OUT OF THE CHICKENS BUTT anymore than a child comes out of a woman's butt.

Technically, they come out of the chicken's cloaca. But they only have one "hole", so this could be considered their "butt". They use it for mating as well as passing feces and eggs.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Good theory, but more likely man saw an animal eat another animal's egg. It didn't die, so they must be good to eat.

MTE.

I have never had a farm fresh egg however I would eat it if it was presented to me. I always try new things.

Might have to track some down now. I know they are around here.

So, I guess none of you are a fan of Ted Nugent? His book is "Kill It and Grill It".
http://www.amazon.com/Kill-Grill-Sh...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1248361969&sr=1-3

We were talking about him last week. My brother is determined to learn how to filet fish perfectly.

I actually am going to buy this book to read. He is an enviromentalist and believes in growing your own food.

 

[connorlevismom]

I totally get where OP is coming from. My sister has chickens in her yard and she eats the eggs. It totally grosses me out. Now, I have to say that eggs in general pretty much gross me out but I do eat them on occasion. I am better if I cook them because then I know they are cooked all the way.

Some people just get grossed out by things and that is OK. I don't understand why people are attacking her (and others) for not being able to eat fresh eggs. I can bet there are things that you do that other people think are "dumb" but don't slam down on them. A lot of problems that people having eating things is thinking way to much about where it came from. I like burgers but if I think to much about what they are, I cannot eat them.

Kristine

 

[pperfectmom]

See, I totally disagree with the belief that people think too much about where their food comes from. I don't think they think ENOUGH about it. This is one of the huge problems brought about by the almost total loss of family farms in our country. With the giant agri-businesses producing our food, nobody even has to think about where their next meal is coming from. This is what I truly find scary.

Oh, I have read Ted Nugent's book and liked it even though I completely disagree with his political views. Some parts of it were hilarious.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Oh, I have read Ted Nugent's book and liked it even though I completely disagree with his political views. Some parts of it were hilarious.

So does he go thru every inch of the steps how to prepare a kill? Is this a book for Armageddon? Right now we are interested in the fish part of course.