Cluck-tastic
Posted by pop at Jun 8, 05 11:31 PM ... Comments (0)
I've changed my mind about those Turner sandwiches, last week I bought an egg and sausage one - and to my horror, found egg-shell in it (hmmm, crunchy!!!!). I pondered...'why hasn't this happened to me before in my lifetime of egg eating?'...Surely it is quite easy for the manufacturer of egg-products to get shell in the egg (after all, it happens to me all of the time when I cook)?!
If I had grown up never having eaten an egg, I suspect that I might not be eating them now - I'm a bit fussy like that, I don't do offal or bits of meat that are less than 99% pure muscle. I spent three years dissecting bits and bobs at University, and I don't like having to do it on my plate.
At the saturday market in Ravel (nr Toulouse), you could buy eggs from old women. To prove that the eggs were 'real' and were laid by a good bird-friend of theirs, they brought them along; either crammed in small cages together, tied together by their feet and laying in a heap, or in one instance, a goose in a bag like that you would find oranges in, in Sainsburys - sort of netting. Nice. I wonder what it would take before I went veggy...?
Over and oeuf!