These Eggs Are Dangerous
September 8th, 2005 by Northern FarmerThis morning when I was making my daily country breakfast before five AM I grabbed the egg carton out of the fridge full of our own fresh eggs. Made some pork sausage and was then going to fry up a few cackleberries. For some reason I looked at the carton and started reading what wisdom the Industrial Egg people have come up with for their poor imitations of the real thing.
I quote: “SAFE HANDLING INSTRUCTIONS: To prevent illness from bacteria; keep eggs refridgerated, cook eggs until yolks are firm, & cook foods containing eggs thoroughly.”
Now my day was ruined, and looking back at my nearly half a century on this planet I realized I’ve always made my eggs wrong. What a failure! I’ve always liked runny yolks. And now what about a raw egg in a drink, no more.
I mentioned this finding to other family members today and everyone had the same reaction.
Seriously, isn’t it something how industrial agriculture can take something as wonderful as an egg and ruin it? And make it so it’s a hazard to our health. Well, I guess they did it with everything else, might as well do it too on one of the most perfect foods too.
I have to feel pity for people that think they’re getting good food from these big ag corps.
September 8th, 2005 at 11:43 pm
Yup, it happened to milk too. Great post. Better be careful, I might start a raw milk debate here.
September 9th, 2005 at 4:41 am
Ditto, Tom, once again!
I love my eggs runny too! Soak up the juice with toast mmmmmmmmm
JM
September 9th, 2005 at 7:25 am
Yuck! Cooked yolks! Raw milk! Now that’s the way to go….and butter….and buttermilk…and yogurt…and cheese….Oops! I should be ashamed of recommending all this dangerous stuff!
September 9th, 2005 at 6:32 pm
I don’t know about a raw milk debate here. Wrong guy. Really though I’d rather have raw milk. We have what you can call in the western tradition, “wild cow milking” once in a while.These angus ain’t some tame old jersey. I’ll have to blog that sometimes. It’ll take a few paragraphs to describe trying to get a little milk from an angus cow.
JM & TNFarmgirl,
Soaking up the juice with toast…I love it! Another thought is how they tell a person to cook hamburger well , well done nowdays. I like our own ground beef very rare.I’d never dare to try that with store bought.One way ticket to the undertaker nowdays.