Breakfasttime Horror

[lady_kishiria]

Today I cracked three eggs for breakfast. As I scrambled them, I saw red in there. On closer inspection, I saw what looked like the filamenty beginnings of bone.

The eggs went down the toilet and Steve had cereal for his breakfast.

These were Boney's Best eggs. It doesn't say they were free-range, in which I would have assumed a rooster got in, so does anyone know if chickens can parthenogenese? OTOH, the Boney family (former owners of Henry's) have made their fortune on natural foods, so maybe free range is their default. Just curious.

(My money is on taxlady and letter_d being first to tackle this one.)

Comments

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

I just wonder what kind of misery the Boney kids were put through growing up.

Boney-owned companies tend to have really good products. I think I talked about them before here. Henry Boney, founder of Henry's Marketplace grocery stores (now owned by Wild Oats), started his business as a peach stand in La Mesa. Old Henry had wanted a natural food store where he didn't have to deal with hippies, you see. He was a traditional conservative who on request from his good friend Ronald Reagan ran for Congress, lost, and went back to being a grocer.

His family later moved out to Arizona, but have come back and re-entered the natural foods marketplace with Pancho Villa Farmers Market (source of the eggs) and Sprouts out in north county.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Nah, hike up the prices and make the food really bizarre and the hippies will go there instead.

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

(Caveat: white bread and rice aren't allowed in my house and I prefer organic products. That being said....)

Of course! And it automatically makes you superior!

[prushrush.livejournal.com]

That is *gross*.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

My family used to get eggs from relatives, and once we had something similar, except it was in mine, already cooked. I was forced to eat it, and since then I've never been able to eat eggs that aren't scrambled. Even then I'm not hip to them. (It was either eat it then, or look at it the next few days until it went bad. If I have children, I'm never doing that to them. Then again I'm not feeding them food they shouldn't be eating, like half-fertilized eggs.)

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

My mom had similar experiences to yours, which is why I learned from her to scrutinize eggs carefully.

[garpu.livejournal.com]

Egg beaters and similar products? The win. The only kind of egg product I've been able to eat regularly.

[zare-k.livejournal.com]

Eh, I think I would have just eaten them. You eat chicken after all, right? Why is proto-chicken objectionable?

[kishiriadgr.livejournal.com]

Texture.

[shadowcell.livejournal.com]

That and it's easier to pretend that a big blob of scrambled eggs wasn't supposed to be a living thing before you came along.

[paedraggaidin.livejournal.com]

Short answer: yes, at least according to this article from Ohio State's 4H.

"Parthenogenesis does not usually occur in higher animals but has been shown to occur in chickens and turkeys. Parthenogenetic development in chickens ceases long before the embryo develops to full term, therefore few chicks have been obtained by parthenogenetic development. Patricia Sarvella obtained one parthenogen chicken from a chicken hen that was not mated."

I don't know how credible this is, but since it's 4H I figure they must know some things about farm-related things....

[paedraggaidin.livejournal.com]

I say "things" too often...stupid lack of coffee.

[letter-d.livejournal.com]

All true. Parthenogenesis can be much more complete in turkeys, as discussed in the article you cited.

[kwokj.livejournal.com]

wacky.

[zaku-ii.livejournal.com]

Still not as bad as Hột gà lộn. :P