Re: store eggs versus chicken eggs; was Re: Free roaming layers

Bargyla Rateaver (brateaver@earthlink.net)
Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:34:36 -0700

Reminds me of another child, who was invited to eat at his friend's house. He came
back to tell his mother, those people must be very poor. All they had for napkins
was rags.
That poor boy had never known anything but paper napkins, did not recognize
quality table setting when he saw it.
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John Lozier wrote:

> When our son was little, we got some of those free-roaming eggs and he
> immediately noticed the yolks were orange, not the usual yellow. "What
> kind of eggs are these," he demanded. "Chicken eggs," we said. His response:
>
> "I want store eggs, not chicken eggs!"
>
> That was about 25 years ago, and it is now part of our family folklore.
>
> At 02:28 PM 8/6/99 -0500, Julie wrote:
> >Hi Bargyla,
> >
> >you wrote:
> >
> >(snip) I was shocked, after trying
> >> some free range chicken eggs there, that the yolks were pale
> >yellow-certainly
> >> those chickens never ate a green leaf.
> >
> >This is even better...some city folks we heard about threw out some eggs
> >with vivid orange yolks, thinking there was something WRONG with them. They
> >were so used to that pathetic tell-tale pale yellow, and didn't know any
> >better! Guess they'd flip over the pretty blue-green shells of Araucana
> >eggs! LOL!
> >
> >Actually a sad state of affairs that a mere generation or two has placed us
> >so far from our food supply...we don't even know what a darn egg yolk should
> >look like!!
> >
> >Julie
> >
> >
> >
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