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No More Eggs From The Dollar Store
Brookwood
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About a week before Christmas I fixed myself some breakfast with a pair of over easy grade A large eggs atop two pieces of toasted oatmeal bread.
About half way through the 2nd egg, I saw something dark in the yolk's center. I busted into it with my fork and pulled out what appeared to be the tail end of a small scorpion!!! :?
We do not have scorpions here in Michigan and besides turning my gills green from what I had been chewing on, made me start considering where my food was coming from?? That and never imagined what a chicken ate could pass into a developing egg and still be somewhat intact. :shock:
Anyway, I know I should have taken a picture but my gut instincts led me to spit, gargle, and scrape all evidence into the garbage can. Done quicker than a fleeing red squirrel! I did investigate the remaining 5 eggs that were still left in the crate. Scrambled them up in a clear glass bowl before dumping them in the same trash can. Didn't want to alarm the wife and kept it all hush hush. She has enough on her plate these days! No more exotic parts were found in the remainder but also, no more eggs from our Family Dollar store for me!!
About half way through the 2nd egg, I saw something dark in the yolk's center. I busted into it with my fork and pulled out what appeared to be the tail end of a small scorpion!!! :?
We do not have scorpions here in Michigan and besides turning my gills green from what I had been chewing on, made me start considering where my food was coming from?? That and never imagined what a chicken ate could pass into a developing egg and still be somewhat intact. :shock:
Anyway, I know I should have taken a picture but my gut instincts led me to spit, gargle, and scrape all evidence into the garbage can. Done quicker than a fleeing red squirrel! I did investigate the remaining 5 eggs that were still left in the crate. Scrambled them up in a clear glass bowl before dumping them in the same trash can. Didn't want to alarm the wife and kept it all hush hush. She has enough on her plate these days! No more exotic parts were found in the remainder but also, no more eggs from our Family Dollar store for me!!
Comments
ALL eggs sold commercially must be candled before packaging.
https://web.extension.illinois.edu/eggs/res26-candling.html
https://www.uspoultry.org/educationprograms/PandEP_Curriculum/Documents/PDFs/Lesson8/EggProcessingPres.pdf
Also, most don't know eggs are sold by weight, not by the quantity although normally packaged by the dozen.
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock:
Condoms
Pregnancy tests
Uncooked pork products
Milk or eggs
Sushi
I'm just saying its not a good idea.
Mike
I'd still have picked it out and finished my breakfast. Certainly not have thrown out the other eggs.
(One of my first memories that remains vivid to this day.)
For years, I would insist upon my eggs either scrambled or over hard.
Brad Steele
^^^^^^^^ TRUTH!!^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We raised 100 - 150 chickens every year when growing up on the farm and I've picked more eggs from chicken nests than most people have eaten in their lifetime.
We have enough gun laws, what we need is IDIOT control.
Blood makes you related. Loyalty makes you family.
I thought getting old would take longer. :shock: