Eggs is eggs
May. 31st, 2008 05:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I'm periodically amused by the American paranoia about eggs. Refrigerate, use within 2 weeks, cook thoroughly: how distinctly odd. Here in the less enlightened colonies we keep our eggs in the pantry, we know that after 3 weeks they're not very good at making pavlova, and after 6 weeks they're not very good at much else (but wont kill you if you eat them), and I think everyone knows that a clean egg with an undamaged shell is fine to eat raw.
The theory used to be that the inside of an egg is as sterile as the inside of a chicken's ovary, and an ovary that has salmonella isn't very good at making anything but a dead chicken. Are american chickens perhaps so thoroughly riddled with disease that this theory doesn't hold any more? Or is it an expression of the mysophobia that informs and panicks the TV watching public with every ad break?
The theory used to be that the inside of an egg is as sterile as the inside of a chicken's ovary, and an ovary that has salmonella isn't very good at making anything but a dead chicken. Are american chickens perhaps so thoroughly riddled with disease that this theory doesn't hold any more? Or is it an expression of the mysophobia that informs and panicks the TV watching public with every ad break?
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Date: 2008-05-31 06:00 am (UTC)v_v
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Date: 2008-05-31 06:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-31 06:29 am (UTC)Eggactly
Date: 2008-05-31 06:04 am (UTC)America is a nation driven by fearmongers.
Here is some interesting information from The American Egg Board.
However, Americans seldom allow their beliefs to be clouded by facts.
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Date: 2008-05-31 06:27 am (UTC)Re: Eggactly
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Date: 2008-05-31 06:28 am (UTC)teenschildren about Satan sacks/condamns too.no subject
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Date: 2008-05-31 08:54 am (UTC)But even old stale eggs are still good for baking, just not nice for much else.
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Date: 2008-05-31 12:09 pm (UTC)mikey you rock. Saruman has the best eggs - cold as.
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Date: 2008-05-31 12:20 pm (UTC)That's my read of this:
http://www.foodanddrinkeurope.com/news/ng.asp?id=63784-efsa-eggs-food-safety
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Date: 2008-05-31 05:49 pm (UTC)http://www.soulfoodfarm.com/
best.
eggs.
evah!
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Date: 2008-05-31 12:41 pm (UTC)(ps -
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Date: 2008-06-01 02:51 pm (UTC)huzzah!
Date: 2008-05-31 05:45 pm (UTC)Re: huzzah!
Date: 2008-05-31 11:09 pm (UTC)Re: huzzah!
Date: 2008-05-31 11:10 pm (UTC)death, no.
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Date: 2008-05-31 10:06 pm (UTC)I use raw eggs in Caesar salad. I just wash them before cracking them. And I don't serve it to little children or frail elderly people. The rest of us would deal with the unlikely event of salmonella infection just fine.
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Date: 2008-05-31 11:08 pm (UTC)...if you do it wrong. ;-)
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Date: 2008-05-31 11:30 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-05-31 10:16 pm (UTC)I suppose we all have our foibles. When I was growing up in Britain we were taught to fear undercooked pork (tapeworms).
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Date: 2008-06-01 05:44 am (UTC)