omg. NSFW this image…
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It doesn’t scare us, we want this. I’d love to see you win vs the chicken industry. They would stomp your ass to the ground like they do to all the chickens!
We don’t eat the donkey eggs
Ugh it came out the ass
Unless I’ve been horribly misinformed, so does honey
It’s actually coming out of the cloaca. No idea about the chicken tho
No way a chicken would fit
You’re both misinformed. Honey doesn’t come either out of a bee’s anus nor out of a bee’s cloaca. It comes out of the mouth. Bees don’t even have a cloaca. Chickens though do have a cloaca and that’s where the eggs come out.
So where do the chickens produce honey from then, smartypants?
They get it from Aldi.
The chicken comes out of the egg, the egg comes out of the cloaca
So I’ve thought about the chicken and the egg issue. Wouldn’t it be the egg first since it contained an evolved spices that we currently call the chicken? The one that produced it doesn’t have to be a chicken, only that it produced a mutated offspring whose egg contained the chicken.
It’s more like the egg contained something slightly different from the mother, and that trend continues for thousands and thousands of “iterations” until eventually it’s completely distinct from that “first” one. There shouldn’t be any species that gives birth to something completely different where it’s protochicken straight to chicken.
That’s kinda what I’m getting at, in that at some point you draw the line on what is a “chicken” vs what isn’t a chicken.
Is the egg named after what laid it, or what it contains?
Cloaca is its ass, just a multifunctional one
Is “Multifunctional Ass” the sequel to “Detachable Penis”?
But I eat ass for sport
If eating ass was a sport I’d know about it.
It is, but is not competitive yet. We are hoping to form a league.
That’s ridiculous, chickens don’t have asses. When’s the last time you went to KFC and ordered a bucket of wings, breasts, and asses?
Sidenote: my phone thnks the word breasts must be changed to breaststroke every time.
The asses are like the sub-dogfood grade meat at taco bell. You don’t explicitly ask for it, but everyone just knows that’s what they are getting.
Silly every tgingat kfc is chicken asses.
In the US, there’s a concern for salmonella or other bacteria and viruses. Factory egg farming is a horror show in regards to overcrowding and hygiene. Sick birds are crammed in with healthy laying birds, and washing the eggs is one of the safest ways to prevent contamination.
It does increase the permeability of the shell, decreasing shelf life and requiring refrigeration.
If your eggs looked like this in the USA, there’s a small but non-zero chance that you’ll shit yourself to death. Probably not, but it’s scary enough.
We could improve factory farming regulations so it’s not a like a Cronenberg movie, but then eggs would be more expensive. And even if we did, and stopped washing our eggs, Americans would still want them to look clean and would still keep them in the fridge because we’ve been conditioned to expect to die on the toilet covered in wet feces if we see bird poop on the eggs.
Fwiw, the eggs wouldn’t have to be more expensive, the eggs cost what the market will pay.
The only change is that the people profiting from your poor food conditions will profit slightly less.
This is a common lie they tell everyone.
Just looked it up. Six shite-covered-but-perfectly-safe eggs
€1.55
They won’t profit less, line must go up. They’d charge double the difference and blame immigrants and Obama.
sure they could charge more, but the market wouldn’t swallow it so they would sell less. if they could charge more for eggs, they would be doing so right now, for extra profit.
They would collude. All eggs would go up just like during covid, and they wouldn’t lose any sales.
If your eggs looked like this in the USA, there’s a small but non-zero chance that you’ll shit yourself to death. Probably not, but it’s scary enough.
Unless you got it from your own chicken coop
Right, but if you keep chickens for eggs, you already know all of this.
Chickens are vaccinated against salmonella (and a bunch of other things) when they are chicks in Europe. It means you don’t need to worry about shitting yourself to death, the chickens are slightly happier by not being sick, and your eggs stay fresher for longer.
It would probably add $0.005 per egg, so US producers will claim it’s communism if a regulation is brought in to vaccinate chicken, but it would be worth doing.
Refrigerating the eggs end to end costs money too, possibly more. I don’t think it’s about ongoing cost but rather upfront cost to switching.
You mean you put 5G tracking devices in your chickens?
Really, though, getting poultry farmers to spend a penny per dozen eggs is like trying to squeeze water from a rock.
Yeah, it helps one find them if they run away
They’ve made a documentary about it back in the day:
They recently made a new one with up-to-date info on the security of those chickens
Fuckin finally. The tryna high road the Europe and shit like they don’t have poor chicken treatment situations too. Its all down to vaccination requirements. They the treatment of chickens cause both places have issues lol
Keeping unwashed eggs in the fridge at home helps them last longer, as long as you don’t leave them out to sweat.
But yeah here in Sweden, we rarely ever get salmonella recalls since the chickens aren’t strapped to a box here.
At what point do people not just think that maybe going vegan isn’t that bad of an alternative
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But eggs are yummy. Baked goods, thickened sauces, omelettes and deviled eggs and egg salad, you can’t really replace them with vegan alternatives. Aquafaba is pretty close for some of it, but people like their eggs and don’t care about how much their food suffers before we eat it.
Right around lunch time it starts looking less appealing
It is way too challenging in my mind at least. I do one meat meal a week and veg the rest. All the fun stuff has milk and eggs in it.
But hey you do it if it makes you happy.
No matter how hard you try.
Bits of that unwashed shell are getting in your food.
You say that like crispy shites are a bad thing
That’s ok. Our chickens aren’t half-dead, disease-ridden skeletons rotting in battery cages.
But my fridge has a little spot just for the eggs. They look so cozy there. I actually don’t know where I’d keep something as fragile as eggs outside my fridge in the kitchen. Genuine question where do you keep your eggs safe? Do they often break?
We don’t need an eggs safe, fuck me they’re not that valuable
It’s not that those are valuable, it’s that those are dangerous. Have you ever tried throwing one after getting it out of an egg safe where it was safely tucked away for the last decade?
Well no. I’m Canada we keep the anlpha egg of the dozen in the egg safe. It’s not large enough for a full carton of eggs.
C’mon, you’re making Canada sound backwards like that. We have banks and they have safety deposit boxes large enough for several cartons of eggs.
I also keep eggs hidden around the house in case I get a midnight craving for an omelette and don’t feel like doing a midnight heist on my own eggs. Though I do regret the ones I hid under the couch cushions.
In a cupboard in their container? They don’t spontaneously combust, as long as they’re in the cardboard it’s pretty hard to accidentally break them.
I drop so much out of my cupboards resching for something else. I’ve dropped eggs before, and i would rather clean up a full sack of flour than half a dozen eggs.
Sounds like you might need to go through your things and ask if each brings you joy and get rid of whatever doesn’t.
Does this egg bring me joy? Throws egg on floor, giggles yes it does. Makes note to replace egg
In the cardboard carton they come in.
And a pack of 10, not 12.
what’s wrong with a pack of 12?
They use metric egg cartons, we use freedom cartons.
7/13th of an ounce of eggs pls
It’s comfortable for Americans but unheard of in many European countries. The point of this post is to make them uncomfortable.
I live in Europe and I’ve seen packs of 4, 6 (most common), 8, 10, 12. It’s not unheard of at all.
Well, I never bought eggs outside the Czech Republic, Germany and Romania, and they were only available in multiples of 10.
In Norway I’ve only seen eggs sold in packs of 6, 12, 18, or 24. As far as I can remember, anyway.
wow 24 is huge!
Where I used to live there were 6, 10, 15, and huge packs of 25. Recently 9 eggs packs started appearing (I could almost bet the price is same as 10)
15? Are those arranged 3x5? Is the 25 package square? I’ve only seen packages arranged as 2xN.
15 is 3×5, as for 25 I stand corrected, those are 30 arranged 5×6 (I counted several times and then wrote an incorrect number 😕)
who needs that many eggs lol, and why wouldn’t they simply buy 3 packs of 10
In Spain it is also a dozen (12).
Call crap on this as all eggs look to be same size.
Heads up, OP: these eggs have been industrially washed, sterilized, then someone took a feather and glued it on them. Look it up.
You ever wondered why you’d find at most one of them per box?
Basically, you’re as big of an idiot as your portrait of an American grocery shopper, but you’re also a naive hypocrite.
Don’t be silly. Those are not real eggs. Birds are not real and so aren’t eggs.
big farma has been lying to us all these years
How do you know this? It’s actually illegal to wash eggs in many countries, for the reasons outlined in the post.
because if you’d ever seen unwashed eggs, you would immediately know.
Just out of curiosity, taking into account feed and care for the chickens, how much would you say each egg costs?
we raise chickens. did the calculation a couple years ago (eggs/week / feed/week) and it was essentially break even, but I think the eggs are better (store bought eggs have super pale yolks). We feed them a mix of feed and kitchen scraps (trimmings of produce etc). Now its a good price from what I read in the news, but if you include labor, its probably not worth it or you would pay yourself next to nothing.
Oh yeah, I consider myself unpaid labor so that’s ok. XD Do you mean that you also sell the chickens? Or just that you raise them from chicks?
sorry, misspoke. we keep chickens for eggs.
And plus you’ve got fair-trade ethically-sourced cruelty-free local eggs. Those aren’t cheap.
But you get chickems! They are their own reward.
I grew up raising chickens among other animals. Poop and feathers on eggs was the norm. This ‘50s processed white bread, white sugar, clean eggs, etc. that was the sign of “progress” I guess IMO has done more harm than good in some ways.
There are tons of back yard chickens in the USA, even in many cities.
Yeah it’s a surprisingly big trend here. And the people I know with chickens are suburban families. They are not on farms and they do not have a ton of other pets. Just a dog or cat.
People should realise they are at risk of exposure to higher levels of lead than recommended.
This is because lead in fuel was legal until just a few decades ago. This means that for 70+ years, any houses near roads will have lead contamination in the soil.
I always wondered if selling eggs to your neighbors violates some us laws
Why sell? Just give them free eggs!
Why get a paycheck? Just work for free!
Chickens lay a shit ton of eggs, up to one a day each if they’re mature and well fed. Even with a small flock it’s easy to run out of room in the fridge. You have to get rid of them somehow - so why not give what you can’t use to the neighbors? It’s not at all uncommon, I’ve been on both sides of this “transaction” hundreds of times.
As a vegetable gardener that is occasionally snowed under with tomatoes or peppers, I’d love a neighbor with chickens who would occasionally trade a couple dozen eggs for a couple hundred cayenne peppers or something.
I don’t know anyone with chickens that stores the eggs in the fridge.
Edit: spelling
Likely not. There’s some weird agricultural laws because of the great depression. You can mail raw vegetables through the USPS as long as they are addressed and have correct postage, for example.
If you sharpie an address on a coconut and put a stamp on it, the USPS will deliver it. They’d rather you didn’t make a habit of it but they’ll do it.
I want my eggs washed because I deal with enough shit, literal and metaphorical, in my every day life, that I dont want to start my day off with it during breakfast.
Why would this scare Americans? We can get farm fresh unwashed eggs here too.
Most of us don’t and many of us are skeeved out by this. I recognize that it’s stupid and these eggs are fine, but it still makes me feel gaggy looking at them.
It’s a joke, ya numpty
You know, like your healthcare system
You sound jaded. Who hurt you?
Maggie Thatcher. Next question
U mad bro?
It’s a bad one, you Dumpty.
Fuck me I’m trying here
Granted. Sometime you gotta just take the L. The Americans could mean many places. And a vast majority of us are familiar with farms and brown eggs. Maybe say it would scare the Karens?
like we have a choice bro we are all corporate slaves with no backbones trying to not be homeless and die on the street while some shithead iNfLuEnCeRs records our last moments for a few likes.
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eww, poors!
Very common in more rural areas, I do this with my chickens’ eggs too
Or local coops. I get them like this (though with more shit) from friends’ backyard chickens
