Would You Eat Green Eggs...?

[AKL_Megs]

This morning, my boss surprised our department with breakfast for some work we did last week. There was bacon and sausage, toast, hashbrowns, pancakes, coffee and assorted juices, and... green scrambled eggs. My boss said she placed a special order to the catering company for the eggs to be green.

Out of 20 people, I'd say maybe 5 had eggs. (I had them, they were green, but very good.)

The reason? "I don't like food coloring in my food."

Really? Well, how do you think they get the ketchup you have all over your hashbrowns so RED? Or, how do you think they get that fruit punch you are drinking so PINK? Better yet, that MARGARINE you just spread on your toast? It ain't yellow to begin with!

So... Do unnaturally "colored" foods make you turn your nose?

 

[mommasita]

What a nice breakfast!!!!!

We always had green eggs today growing up in an Irish household, and other green things Green beer is very HUGE today and all weekend!

I remember a few years back, was it PURPLE or GREEN they made ketchup? That really turned my stomach to look at. I usually don't have issues, but I was pregnant at that time, and that made me even more

 

[monkeybug]

I'd eat 'em!
Sounds like fun to me!

Leprechauns snuck into our house last night and turned our milk green. I didn't bother to ask if they used natural coloring or not, just laughed with my kiddo's while we sucked it up through our straws.

 

[katesorad]

I don't eat eggs, so I wouldn't.. but in the past when I did eat eggs and meat, I LOVED when my mom made us green eggs & ham! It was one of my favorite breakfasts.

I don't mind food coloring. Ideally, I wouldn't touch anything artificial. But then, I'd probably starve to death! So I eat fake meat, things with food coloring (I really do love ketchup), everything!

I bet all of those people at your office eat cake too. Food coloring is all over icing!

 

[indimom]

Yep, but I'm not afraid of food coloring.

Apparently my day care kids aren't afraid of a little change either. They all had green eggs and ham for lunch on Dr. Suess B-Day. And, we've had green foods today as well.

A leprechaun has been reaking havic on my day care all day. Green doughnuts at breakfast, pears sprinkled with green sugar at lunch. He also colored the "potty water" green, stole a child's green blanket and hung it from the chandelier... We set a trap and hope to catch him or his pot of gold before nap is over.

People need to loosen up.

 

[AKL_Megs]

Since it was catered, I highly doubt the food coloring was the only "unnatural" food item!

I agree... LOOSEN UP! It was a tasty free breakfast! I'm still alive to tell you all about it!

 

[scrapquitler]

If they were REAL eggs with food coloring, yes I would eat them. If they were powdered eggs or egg 'subsitute', I wouldn't eat them regardless of the color.

 

[FireDancer]

I don't eat regular eggs so no, I wouldn't eat green eggs.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

I am not eating scrambled eggs at work no matter what color they are.

Nice spread but did they have any healthy choices with fruit or yogurt?

 

[DisneyGirl928]

I had green eggs last night for dinner! So yes I would eat them.

 

[Mermaid02]

I am not eating scrambled eggs at work no matter what color they are.

Nice spread but did they have any healthy choices with fruit or yogurt?

What's wrong with eggs? All things in moderation- and yogurt can be VERY high in sugar.

Yes, I'd eat the eggs.

 

[tlbwriter]

The reason? "I don't like food coloring in my food."

I wonder if they meant they didn't like unnaturally colored food (like the aforementioned green ketchup)? I mean, they're eating colored food all the time if they eat a typical American diet.

Better yet, that MARGARINE you just spread on your toast? It ain't yellow to begin with!

My mom remembers when it was illegal to sell margarine that was dyed yellow, so the white margarine came with a capsule of yellow food coloring - you were supposed to knead it into the margarine to make it all yellow!

 

[AKL_Megs]

I am not eating scrambled eggs at work no matter what color they are.

Nice spread but did they have any healthy choices with fruit or yogurt?

We had orange juice!

 

[maslex]

I wouldn't mind eating the eggs.

Reminds me of another story from a friend of mine.

She makes these gingerbread type cookies that she tops with cream cheese frosting. Around the holidays she'll die half the frosting green and the other half red. Her son (who is 38 by the way LOL) REFUSES to eat the red ones because the green ones "taste better". And no matter how many times we tell him that the dye has no taste, he swears the green ones taste better. LOL

 

[tlbwriter]

She makes these gingerbread type cookies that she tops with cream cheese frosting. Around the holidays she'll die half the frosting green and the other half red. Her son (who is 38 by the way LOL) REFUSES to eat the red ones because the green ones "taste better". And no matter how many times we tell him that the dye has no taste, he swears the green ones taste better. LOL

Does she use liquid food coloring? If so, I'd be on his side - if you use enough liquid food coloring to get an actual red (not pink) color, you can definitely taste it. At least I can. But if she's using paste coloring, it's probably just his imagination. She should do a blind taste test.

 

[FlightlessDuck]

I'm not afraid of the fact that the eggs are green, but I've seen that eggs that were colored end up tasting odd (a little grainy?).

But I'd still probably eat them.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

What's wrong with eggs? All things in moderation- and yogurt can be VERY high in sugar.

Yes, I'd eat the eggs.

Let's just say, they don't agree with me sometimes and leave it at that.

Plus not a fan of scrambled to begin with. And furthermore I am not eating scrambled catered eggs.

 

[Hannathy]

Yes I would! Sounds like a very nice thing work did and I'm sorry for your boss that people were "party poopers" and spoiled her fun, I think it is very nice that they thought of and took the time to ask for the eggs to be green for today.

 

[Tink888]

I would and have eaten green eggs.

The people in your office probably had more trouble getting past the fact that a food which is normally yellow, was green and not so much the fact that they had food coloring in them.

Sure a lot of foods have coloring in them but when you're used to a food being a certain color, and the color changes, it throws people off and in their minds it tastes different.

A few years ago Heinz ketchup came out with different colors of ketchup in addition to the traditional red. Green and purple were two that I can think of. Our kids were little at the time and we bought green ketchup. Did not taste the same to me. My brain knew it was still ketchup but I guess I couldn't get past the fact that to me, ketchup is supposed to be red. I must not have been the only person who felt that way, the only color ketchup I see in the stores now is red.

Maybe we're just wired that way as a safety mechanism. If you find a green piece of bread, you know to avoid it because it's probably moldy you know?

 

[disneybound2010]

For Dr.Seuss' birthday a couple of weeks ago, my DS's school did green eggs and ham for breakfast. He was soooo excited the day before,insisting I not pack his breakfast for him(morning Pre-K eat breakfast at school)

When I picked him up from class later that morning, he was begging for somethign to eat because he didn't get to eat breakfast. When I asked why he replied," I DO NOT like green eggs. Eggs should only be white or yellow." I guess he truly didn't understand that the whole concept of "green eggs and ham!"

If I was hungry, I'd eat them. It's just coloring.