The incredible inedible egg
December 13, 2005 2:36 PM Subscribe
Make eggs a part of your balanced breakfast... and they're also an excellent source of protein! Uhm. Probably not for the weak of stomach / May be NSFW. (Google translation from german.)
oh my god. do you mean to tell me that eggs are where baby chickens come from? and people EAT them?
i will NEVER eat another egg again.
well, okay, at least not until tomorrow morning.
(was kinda gross, though.)
posted by ab3 at 2:48 PM on December 13, 2005
i will NEVER eat another egg again.
well, okay, at least not until tomorrow morning.
(was kinda gross, though.)
posted by ab3 at 2:48 PM on December 13, 2005
seriously.. is this necessary? nobody buys fertilized eggs for god sake.
I guess I should be rethinking using my wifes breastmilk as a substitute for my coffee creamer now also?
communist!
posted by Milliken at 2:48 PM on December 13, 2005
I guess I should be rethinking using my wifes breastmilk as a substitute for my coffee creamer now also?
communist!
posted by Milliken at 2:48 PM on December 13, 2005
Horrible pop-up alert. Yes, even on FF 1.5.
posted by dash_slot- at 2:49 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by dash_slot- at 2:49 PM on December 13, 2005
Aw, poor aborted baby chicken.
posted by thirteenkiller at 2:49 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by thirteenkiller at 2:49 PM on December 13, 2005
heh. jinx on the lame sentence, furtive. or at least close.
posted by ab3 at 2:50 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by ab3 at 2:50 PM on December 13, 2005
This has happened to me once, at a party where they served balut, and one of the eggs had somehow missed the steaming process. The bird was still moving. And chirping.
posted by brownpau at 2:57 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by brownpau at 2:57 PM on December 13, 2005
What's to be said? The person clearly states that he knew the egg contained a duckling in it. He didn't even cook the damn thing. I'd rather go polk dead wales on the beach.
posted by furtive at 3:08 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by furtive at 3:08 PM on December 13, 2005
People do indeed buy and eat fertilzed eggs.
i've had one. i got through it. small ones are a common course in keiseki.
posted by 3.2.3 at 3:17 PM on December 13, 2005
i've had one. i got through it. small ones are a common course in keiseki.
posted by 3.2.3 at 3:17 PM on December 13, 2005
Probably not for the weak of stomach
Understatement of the year, especially the little embedded flash video of the guy playing with his food.
posted by darkness at 3:25 PM on December 13, 2005
Understatement of the year, especially the little embedded flash video of the guy playing with his food.
posted by darkness at 3:25 PM on December 13, 2005
eggnog, anyone?
posted by crunchland at 3:27 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by crunchland at 3:27 PM on December 13, 2005
No need.
posted by fire&wings at 3:37 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by fire&wings at 3:37 PM on December 13, 2005
nobody buys fertilized eggs for god sake
Actually, most everyone who buys organic eggs from pastured hens are buying fertilized eggs. This includes every egg sold at our area natural food stores, and the eggs coming from my farm. There's a big difference between fertilized eggs and eggs containing a fetal bird!
Hens kept with roosters are happier, less stressed hens, and happier hens produce healthier, more nutritious eggs. Such eggs that are collected and refrigerated the day they are laid will look the same as sterile eggs. One egg myth claims that if you find a red dot on the yolk, that's the embryo, but really that's produced from a broken capillary during the egg production, and even sterile eggs can have those.
When I was getting my egg candling license, the ag agent told me a story. Back in the days prior to WWII, when poultry production in the South was really ramping up, eggs were shipped to the northern city in regular railroad cars. The shipping system was inefficient enough that boxcars of chirping chicks were a regular occurrence. Refrigerated boxcars came along just in time to save the industry.
posted by ewagoner at 3:40 PM on December 13, 2005
Actually, most everyone who buys organic eggs from pastured hens are buying fertilized eggs. This includes every egg sold at our area natural food stores, and the eggs coming from my farm. There's a big difference between fertilized eggs and eggs containing a fetal bird!
Hens kept with roosters are happier, less stressed hens, and happier hens produce healthier, more nutritious eggs. Such eggs that are collected and refrigerated the day they are laid will look the same as sterile eggs. One egg myth claims that if you find a red dot on the yolk, that's the embryo, but really that's produced from a broken capillary during the egg production, and even sterile eggs can have those.
When I was getting my egg candling license, the ag agent told me a story. Back in the days prior to WWII, when poultry production in the South was really ramping up, eggs were shipped to the northern city in regular railroad cars. The shipping system was inefficient enough that boxcars of chirping chicks were a regular occurrence. Refrigerated boxcars came along just in time to save the industry.
posted by ewagoner at 3:40 PM on December 13, 2005
I a measurer availed yourself, in order to free the embryo from whole things, which made no fun completely surely for me! The afternoon could I first times nothing more eat.
He can say that again!!
posted by BobFrapples at 3:41 PM on December 13, 2005
He can say that again!!
posted by BobFrapples at 3:41 PM on December 13, 2005
I had to assure a group of hysterical 15 year old girls that egg yolk is not, in fact, an aborted, liquefied chicken fetus. They were literally in tears over it.
posted by Marit at 3:56 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by Marit at 3:56 PM on December 13, 2005
When I was in the Philippines, I ate one of these. From the wikipedia article, I believe we went for the 17 day (or maybe it was even younger) one. We definitely had the older ones available to us. I knew I didn't want to get one that had a recognizeable bird in it. They had been hard-boiled and weren't bad. Certainly not recognizeable as meat, but pretty different from a hard-boiled egg. The white part was much thinner and tougher than on a regular hard-boiled egg. The inside part wasn't nearly as yellow, much browner and with a tougher consistency. As I said, not bad, but I've yet to crave one again.
My question, though, is in regards to ewagoner's explanation of refridgeration. I lived in Asia (Korea) for a while, and now I live in Europe (Holland), and have never seen eggs being refridgerated like you see in the States (pretty much everywhere). Does this have to do with different farming procedures and not (as I suspected) with paranoid American consumers?
posted by bigmike at 4:13 PM on December 13, 2005
My question, though, is in regards to ewagoner's explanation of refridgeration. I lived in Asia (Korea) for a while, and now I live in Europe (Holland), and have never seen eggs being refridgerated like you see in the States (pretty much everywhere). Does this have to do with different farming procedures and not (as I suspected) with paranoid American consumers?
posted by bigmike at 4:13 PM on December 13, 2005
To quote the inestimable Cartman:
What the hell is wrong with German people?
posted by Ynoxas at 4:15 PM on December 13, 2005
What the hell is wrong with German people?
posted by Ynoxas at 4:15 PM on December 13, 2005
Hell, every one of the little Asian stores within four blocks of my place sells duck balut. About eight bucks a dozen.
What a bunch of weak sisters.
posted by solid-one-love at 4:17 PM on December 13, 2005
What a bunch of weak sisters.
posted by solid-one-love at 4:17 PM on December 13, 2005
My worry about balut and its ilk - as the embryo develops, it's going to be producing metabolic waste products; all of which will remain inside the egg.
It's kinda like drinking the contents of a diaper/catheter...
posted by PurplePorpoise at 4:17 PM on December 13, 2005
It's kinda like drinking the contents of a diaper/catheter...
posted by PurplePorpoise at 4:17 PM on December 13, 2005
please, PurplePorpoise, the website was gross enough.
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 4:19 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by BuddhaInABucket at 4:19 PM on December 13, 2005
Beer, wine, cheese, and yogurt all contain large amounts of "metabolic waste products", too...
posted by mr_roboto at 4:21 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by mr_roboto at 4:21 PM on December 13, 2005
I'll pass on the Balut, the Pulutan (road kill snacks) and Seafood "jumping" salad. Yuck.
posted by snsranch at 4:42 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by snsranch at 4:42 PM on December 13, 2005
NSFW? Not safe for breakfast.
posted by gesamtkunstwerk at 5:14 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by gesamtkunstwerk at 5:14 PM on December 13, 2005
I guess this puts an end to the infamous "what was first, the egg or the chicken" dilemma.
posted by keepoutofreach at 5:21 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by keepoutofreach at 5:21 PM on December 13, 2005
please, PurplePorpoise, the website was gross enough.
I'll second that. Yeeurgh.
posted by Zinger at 5:22 PM on December 13, 2005
I'll second that. Yeeurgh.
posted by Zinger at 5:22 PM on December 13, 2005
I once cracked open an egg, not a natural organic fertilized egg but a plain old supermarket mass-produced sterile egg, that looked completely normal on the outside but inside it was filled entirely with blood. There was nothing egg-like inside, no yolk, no egg white, just liquid blood. It was like a shelled hemorrhage.
posted by TimeFactor at 6:05 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by TimeFactor at 6:05 PM on December 13, 2005
Can someone explain the chicken/egg dilemma? Isn't the egg always before the chicken? All I know is that the tortoise always wins.
posted by romanb at 6:39 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by romanb at 6:39 PM on December 13, 2005
Oh sure.
You don't give a damn for the chicken when it's in the egg, but once it's out you're all "mm...tasty chicken I want to eat you."
posted by Baby_Balrog at 6:52 PM on December 13, 2005
You don't give a damn for the chicken when it's in the egg, but once it's out you're all "mm...tasty chicken I want to eat you."
posted by Baby_Balrog at 6:52 PM on December 13, 2005
What a thing to read after eating dinner. Eeccch!
posted by kosher_jenny at 7:28 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by kosher_jenny at 7:28 PM on December 13, 2005
Metafilter: metabolic waste product
and, I never eat eggs by themselves, and rarely enough mixed with something else. Same with milk. I prefer to limit myself to muscle tissue.
posted by socratic at 7:31 PM on December 13, 2005
and, I never eat eggs by themselves, and rarely enough mixed with something else. Same with milk. I prefer to limit myself to muscle tissue.
posted by socratic at 7:31 PM on December 13, 2005
I was hoping for a platypus.
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 7:44 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 7:44 PM on December 13, 2005
No joke, I was just getting ready to fry up 2 eggs for dinner (fried egg sandwich!) but plans have changed. I will just go to bed.
posted by Jesse H Christ at 7:54 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by Jesse H Christ at 7:54 PM on December 13, 2005
I'm totally starting a metal band and calling it Shelled Hemorrhage.
posted by twiggy at 8:12 PM on December 13, 2005
posted by twiggy at 8:12 PM on December 13, 2005
Time Factor: And this was in, y'know....real life? You weren't in a tryout for an Eraserhead remake, or anything?
Blaaaaargh.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 12:31 AM on December 14, 2005
Blaaaaargh.
posted by Jon Mitchell at 12:31 AM on December 14, 2005
come on, there's no fucking way he's going to eat it raw, you have to hardboil it first
posted by matteo at 2:27 AM on December 14, 2005
posted by matteo at 2:27 AM on December 14, 2005
this reminds me of a song that i "wrote" a long time ago.
it was called liquid abortion.
this should be the freakin video.
I've never had this happen, but i've had a few double yolks freak me out in ways that are not easily described in words. Ye olde O RLY owl better describes the scene... epiphanies and horror.
posted by phylum sinter at 4:16 AM on December 14, 2005
it was called liquid abortion.
this should be the freakin video.
I've never had this happen, but i've had a few double yolks freak me out in ways that are not easily described in words. Ye olde O RLY owl better describes the scene... epiphanies and horror.
posted by phylum sinter at 4:16 AM on December 14, 2005
My question, though, is in regards to ewagoner's explanation of refrigeration. I lived in Asia (Korea) for a while, and now I live in Europe (Holland), and have never seen eggs being refrigerated like you see in the States (pretty much everywhere). Does this have to do with different farming procedures and not (as I suspected) with paranoid American consumers?"
Your suspicions are more correct. The egg actually has to be heated for the embryo to develop. This is usually brought about (in nature) by the hen sitting on the eggs, but I guess metal boxcars sitting in the sun also make decent incubators.
Fertilized eggs at room temperature are in a sort of suspended animation. For a while (days, or a couple weeks), the egg is still viable without any development. Once the temps rise to the mid-nineties, development starts. Hens use this "feature" to make a pile of eggs all hatch at the same time, even though they may have been laid over a period of days. THe American practice of chilling the eggs makes them non-viable.
And one more note... American laws require eggs to be thoroughly washed before packing. Unwashed eggs naturally contain an invisible membrane on the outside of the egg that seals in air and keeps out bacteria. Washing the eggs remove this membrane, and commercial producers have to spray the eggs with a substitute sealant. Of course, that artificial sealant isn't anywhere near as good as nature's, so here in the US unrefrigerated eggs will spoil and evaporate very quickly. The eggs I sell still have their natural coating, and many of my customers keep theirs in a bowl on the counter the "European way" without any problems.
posted by ewagoner at 8:27 AM on December 14, 2005
Your suspicions are more correct. The egg actually has to be heated for the embryo to develop. This is usually brought about (in nature) by the hen sitting on the eggs, but I guess metal boxcars sitting in the sun also make decent incubators.
Fertilized eggs at room temperature are in a sort of suspended animation. For a while (days, or a couple weeks), the egg is still viable without any development. Once the temps rise to the mid-nineties, development starts. Hens use this "feature" to make a pile of eggs all hatch at the same time, even though they may have been laid over a period of days. THe American practice of chilling the eggs makes them non-viable.
And one more note... American laws require eggs to be thoroughly washed before packing. Unwashed eggs naturally contain an invisible membrane on the outside of the egg that seals in air and keeps out bacteria. Washing the eggs remove this membrane, and commercial producers have to spray the eggs with a substitute sealant. Of course, that artificial sealant isn't anywhere near as good as nature's, so here in the US unrefrigerated eggs will spoil and evaporate very quickly. The eggs I sell still have their natural coating, and many of my customers keep theirs in a bowl on the counter the "European way" without any problems.
posted by ewagoner at 8:27 AM on December 14, 2005
In Soviet Russia, the egg eats you!
Sorry. It's tired, I know. Mea culpa. So am I.
posted by spincycle at 8:12 PM on December 14, 2005
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This post is as lame as the preceding sentence.
posted by furtive at 2:48 PM on December 13, 2005