Comments on: The incredible inedible egg

The incredible inedible egg

crunchland — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:36:12 -0800

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.)

By: furtive

furtive — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:48:03 -0800

You mean to tell me that they've figured out a way to stick living creatures in eggs? This post is as lame as the preceding sentence.

By: ab3

ab3 — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:48:31 -0800

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.)

By: Milliken

Milliken — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:48:48 -0800

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!

By: dash_slot-

dash_slot- — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:49:14 -0800

Horrible pop-up alert. Yes, even on FF 1.5.

By: thirteenkiller

thirteenkiller — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:49:46 -0800

Aw, poor aborted baby chicken.

By: ab3

ab3 — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:50:54 -0800

heh. jinx on the lame sentence, furtive. or at least close.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:57:20 -0800

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.

By: fungible

fungible — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 14:57:38 -0800

KLICK HIER!!!!!!!

By: iloveit

iloveit — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:04:26 -0800

People do indeed buy and eat fertilzed eggs.

By: furtive

furtive — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:08:09 -0800

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.

By: 3.2.3

3.2.3 — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:17:50 -0800

People do indeed buy and eat fertilzed eggs. i've had one. i got through it. small ones are a common course in keiseki.

By: jonson

jonson — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:24:03 -0800

Holy mother of christ, crunchy. Unsubscribe!!!

By: darkness

darkness — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:25:28 -0800

Probably not for the weak of stomach Understatement of the year, especially the little embedded flash video of the guy playing with his food.

By: crunchland

crunchland — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:27:24 -0800

eggnog, anyone?

By: fire&wings

fire&wings — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:37:23 -0800

No need.

By: ewagoner

ewagoner — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:40:07 -0800

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.

By: BobFrapples

BobFrapples — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:41:19 -0800

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!!

By: freq

freq — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:51:36 -0800

EGGCELLENT!

By: Marit

Marit — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 15:56:02 -0800

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.

By: bigmike

bigmike — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:13:59 -0800

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?

By: Ynoxas

Ynoxas — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:15:42 -0800

To quote the inestimable Cartman: What the hell is wrong with German people?

By: solid-one-love

solid-one-love — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:17:09 -0800

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.

By: PurplePorpoise

PurplePorpoise — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:17:30 -0800

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...

By: BuddhaInABucket

BuddhaInABucket — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:19:32 -0800

please, PurplePorpoise, the website was gross enough.

By: mr_roboto

mr_roboto — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:21:13 -0800

Beer, wine, cheese, and yogurt all contain large amounts of "metabolic waste products", too...

By: snsranch

snsranch — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:42:51 -0800

I'll pass on the Balut, the Pulutan (road kill snacks) and Seafood "jumping" salad. Yuck.

By: JeffK

JeffK — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:49:20 -0800

mmmm.......metabolic waste.........

By: Foosnark

Foosnark — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:58:35 -0800

It's eggregious!

By: gesamtkunstwerk

gesamtkunstwerk — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:14:59 -0800

NSFW? Not safe for breakfast.

By: keepoutofreach

keepoutofreach — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:21:05 -0800

I guess this puts an end to the infamous "what was first, the egg or the chicken" dilemma.

By: Zinger

Zinger — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 17:22:16 -0800

please, PurplePorpoise, the website was gross enough. I'll second that. Yeeurgh.

By: TimeFactor

TimeFactor — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:05:49 -0800

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.

By: romanb

romanb — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:39:48 -0800

Can someone explain the chicken/egg dilemma? Isn't the egg always before the chicken? All I know is that the tortoise always wins.

By: uosuaq

uosuaq — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:43:03 -0800

Metafilter: like a shelled hemorrhage.

By: yeoz

yeoz — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:48:23 -0800

... I am so never eating eggs ever again ...

By: Baby_Balrog

Baby_Balrog — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:52:46 -0800

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."

By: kosher_jenny

kosher_jenny — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:28:16 -0800

What a thing to read after eating dinner. Eeccch!

By: socratic

socratic — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:31:07 -0800

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.

By: BlackLeotardFront

BlackLeotardFront — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:44:05 -0800

I was hoping for a platypus.

By: Jesse H Christ

Jesse H Christ — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 19:54:12 -0800

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.

By: brownpau

brownpau — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:02:55 -0800

PurplePorpoise - that's the soup. We drink that.

By: twiggy

twiggy — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:12:08 -0800

I'm totally starting a metal band and calling it Shelled Hemorrhage.

By: Jon Mitchell

Jon Mitchell — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 00:31:14 -0800

Time Factor: And this was in, y'know....real life? You weren't in a tryout for an Eraserhead remake, or anything? Blaaaaargh.

By: Onanist

Onanist — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 01:43:57 -0800

Shelled Hemorrhage Rawk!!!1! w000t!!

By: matteo

matteo — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 02:27:40 -0800

come on, there's no fucking way he's going to eat it raw, you have to hardboil it first

By: phylum sinter

phylum sinter — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 04:16:40 -0800

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.

By: ewagoner

ewagoner — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 08:27:56 -0800

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.

By: isol

isol — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:35:38 -0800

und keine eier ..

By: spincycle

spincycle — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 20:12:03 -0800

In Soviet Russia, the egg eats you! Sorry. It's tired, I know. Mea culpa. So am I.