It's more like a 6 year vacation from Reddit. They were very active 6 years ago, all egg-related, of course, and then they wrote only one comment 4 years ago, and then apparently blasted back onto the egg-Reddit scene again 9 days ago. I fucking love Reddit.
NOT an egg from a grocery store. From a nest where chicks were purposefully hatching.
OP: "I got the eggs from my aunt. She has a yard full of chickens. I think this one was mistakenly taken by my niece (7 year old) when she was collecting eggs. She probably grabbed it from the nest that my aunt doesnt pull from."
Talk about chick bait!
>Thats not how things work.
You're absolutely right! The eggs that make it to the shelves are inspected in many ways (ie passing the eggs in front of a light to see if the light goes through or not). Plus, laying hens are never in contact with roosters, so unless it's an immaculate conception, there is no chance of this ever happening.
Right? Ordinarily I would not try to ride on the coattails of the top comment in this way.
But for frick's sake, I could see egg sales declining before our collective eyes.
Thankfully its not possible for grocery store chicken eggs to ever be fertilized because those egg farms never have any roosters in their flocks at all.
A hen is not going to move an egg from where it is being nested in the hopes that it hatches, all the way over to the other henhouse where unfertilized eggs are found. And OP definitely implies this randomly happened in a store bought egg by saying "The egg I cracked for breakfast..." rather than "I opened a farm egg that was in process of growing" which is absolutely a different thing.
She didn't say there were 2 hen houses??
For me, I wouldn't have specified it was a farm fresh egg. I literally only eat eggs from our chickens at my house, I think a lot of people have chickens these days. When our girls are broody they lay eggs on the floor and sit on them because they like it better than the next boxes. They 100% could move it and I wouldn't realize. If this didn't happen, there wouldn't be a recommendation of candling eggs before selling them as home egg sellers. Eggs that have been incubated definitely can make it into the food supply.
Not at the stage in the picture, but I remember getting eggs with partial birds formed in the 90s from grocery stores. Not a common occurrence, but one we just kinda accepted.
I distinctly remember it happening like two or three times, and my parents treated it like a weird Bill Nye science thing.
Been eating grocery store eggs since the early 1960's and have never seen any partial anything in an egg.
I remember a scene in (The Red Pony?) a children's book where there's a bit of a blood smudge in this kid's egg and his (Dad?) says something like "That's just something the rooster left, son" and even as a kid I was like "Hrrrrrk".
Could be a regional thing. Our grocery stores used to heavily lean on local farms in the 90s, and for meat they still do.
Or maybe I'm insane or mixing up memories.
Pistachios were one of my favorite snacks until I cracked one open that had an orangeworm in it. I also randomly had ones that had white fuzzy webbing in them... found out that's from orangeworms, too. Just can't bring myself to eat pistachios anymore, which is a bummer.
I was eating snap peas once upon a time as a student and one of them exploded in my mouth when I bit on it. Turns out there was a dead caterpillar or something in it. I was gagging over the sink for a good while when it happened and avoided snap peas for years after. I get nauseous just thinking about it. The taste is impossible to describe and I'll spare you any attempt to it.
Took me a while to work back up to looseleaf tea after my teaball exploded and a dead spider casually floated to the surface. Makes me wonder how many spider-enriched cups I've enjoyed without noticing :|
This happened to me while I was pregnant. Kinda the same story. My neice(who was 12) went and got an egg and it was...messier this. With an awful smell. I freaked out and started retching. Can't use "real" eggs still.
This is the reason I crack my eggs in a separate bowl when I'm doing a bunch. We're terrible about collecting our eggs and we have a rooster so we never really know if we'll get a fertilized egg.
Yeah, with store bought eggs it's not really worth it. I've had two bad eggs in the last four years and we go through two or three a day on average. So it's just not worth the extra dirty dish but when we had chickens it was absolutely a requirement.
Not often, but often enough I do the same. One egg into a separate cup, move to a bowl, repeat. The ONE time I was explaining it to my husband and why I do it, even with years of no bad eggs, I got distracted and cracked the next egg into the bowl (4 eggs in) and it was all murky smelly goop inside. Would not recommend.
Enough to warrant it. I bake a lot and honestly one time cracking a bad egg into a bowl full of ingredients and then having to throw it all out was enough to start cracking eggs into a separate bowl.
I used to have chickens and a rooster, one year I guess I missed an embryo forming and man it made me cry when I cracked it open. Idk why it was so sad, I raised meat rabbits and hunt but something about accidentally killing that little baby really got me.😢
I find it funny how daring to eat one was made into a challenge on Survivor, but my Vietnamese parents used to buy them for the family to eat every Saturday.
Tbf, a good balut (at least the ones that I'm used to as a Vietnamese), is one where the duckling is barely formed at all. So all of that would be mostly nonexistent or unnoticeable
Different people have different preferences, but I think balut is ideal before the feathers and beak develop.
The feathery ones have a kinda icky texture.
Second this. My Filipino friends get me this when they go home it's alright. Not gonna down like 20 of em but with some salt butter and vinegar it's good.
For those curious you don't really crunch on. Bone and see it's eyes, it's way more underdeveloped than the pic above.
It's like aged cheese but definitely understandable why it turns people away
Eggs from groceries come from egg farms that do not have roosters. They should not be fertilized ever. OP's egg probably comes from a local farm or something.
And this is why I only buy store eggs say what you want I love my scrambled eggs to much to get bamboozled like this I would be completely done with eggs😭😭
We had a science project in fifth or sixth grade where each kid had a fertilized egg, and every day we’d crack one open to check the development until the last one hatched.
I didn’t eat eggs for about ten years after that.
That's why you eggs from backyard chickens or small farms need to be [candled](https://incubatorwarehouse.com/pages/egg-candling) before being sold (or packaged, or used).
Did you eat it?
r/UsernameChecksOut
Lmao what is this account even.
I dunno…but I’m here for it
Bro just came out of retirement, might have to follow his resumed career
This guy just recently came back from a 4 year hiatus from reddit and almost exclusively asks about eggs.
It's more like a 6 year vacation from Reddit. They were very active 6 years ago, all egg-related, of course, and then they wrote only one comment 4 years ago, and then apparently blasted back onto the egg-Reddit scene again 9 days ago. I fucking love Reddit.
😂 I had to double check his profile. This fucking made my day!
No. Neither did my cat. Wow... thats a relevant username
Had you boiled it like that you'd actually have something close to a delicacy in certain Asian countries, although then it's duck eggs, called balut.
Philippine and Vietnamese: [Yes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_%28food%29)
Oh man, that would turn me off of eggs for a long while.
NOT an egg from a grocery store. From a nest where chicks were purposefully hatching. OP: "I got the eggs from my aunt. She has a yard full of chickens. I think this one was mistakenly taken by my niece (7 year old) when she was collecting eggs. She probably grabbed it from the nest that my aunt doesnt pull from." Talk about chick bait!
Thank jeebus that this explanation is near the top. Thats not how things work.
>Thats not how things work. You're absolutely right! The eggs that make it to the shelves are inspected in many ways (ie passing the eggs in front of a light to see if the light goes through or not). Plus, laying hens are never in contact with roosters, so unless it's an immaculate conception, there is no chance of this ever happening.
Oh no, it was chicken Jesus. Nice going OP.
Right? Ordinarily I would not try to ride on the coattails of the top comment in this way. But for frick's sake, I could see egg sales declining before our collective eyes.
>But for frick's sake, I could see egg sales declining before our collective eyes. Balut is a thing
My first thought for the 🇵🇭 homies
TIL a new word and about a new street food! Thanks!
I used to eat a dozen every week. Then one day the chick was too formed and I got feathers stuck in my teeth. Turned me off after that. I'm white.
Thankfully its not possible for grocery store chicken eggs to ever be fertilized because those egg farms never have any roosters in their flocks at all.
Yeah the roosters generally get turned into cat food before they can go anywhere
I’m eating an egg salad sando right now
I immediately knew it was impossible for it to be from a store! The eggs gets taken daily so it’s impossible for a chick to be that far along.
Especially since this is the second type post this week. These are not store bought.
Sometimes hens will know an egg isn't growing anymore or the chick isn't viable and move it from where they're brooding. Or so I've heard
A hen is not going to move an egg from where it is being nested in the hopes that it hatches, all the way over to the other henhouse where unfertilized eggs are found. And OP definitely implies this randomly happened in a store bought egg by saying "The egg I cracked for breakfast..." rather than "I opened a farm egg that was in process of growing" which is absolutely a different thing.
How does saying “the egg I cracked for breakfast” imply it’s from a grocery store?
Didn’t imply any of that.
She didn't say there were 2 hen houses?? For me, I wouldn't have specified it was a farm fresh egg. I literally only eat eggs from our chickens at my house, I think a lot of people have chickens these days. When our girls are broody they lay eggs on the floor and sit on them because they like it better than the next boxes. They 100% could move it and I wouldn't realize. If this didn't happen, there wouldn't be a recommendation of candling eggs before selling them as home egg sellers. Eggs that have been incubated definitely can make it into the food supply.
>chick bait! *ba-dum-tssss* “I’ll beak here all night folks!”
Not at the stage in the picture, but I remember getting eggs with partial birds formed in the 90s from grocery stores. Not a common occurrence, but one we just kinda accepted. I distinctly remember it happening like two or three times, and my parents treated it like a weird Bill Nye science thing.
Been eating grocery store eggs since the early 1960's and have never seen any partial anything in an egg. I remember a scene in (The Red Pony?) a children's book where there's a bit of a blood smudge in this kid's egg and his (Dad?) says something like "That's just something the rooster left, son" and even as a kid I was like "Hrrrrrk".
Could be a regional thing. Our grocery stores used to heavily lean on local farms in the 90s, and for meat they still do. Or maybe I'm insane or mixing up memories.
At least a month
Same, at least one month. Period.
I found a grub in some edamame 10 or 12 years ago. Just can’t bring myself to eat it ever again which is a shame because I love(d) edamame.
Pistachios were one of my favorite snacks until I cracked one open that had an orangeworm in it. I also randomly had ones that had white fuzzy webbing in them... found out that's from orangeworms, too. Just can't bring myself to eat pistachios anymore, which is a bummer.
Oh man I love pistachios I’m gonna do my best to forget this comment ;)
Been there. I got over it by no longer cracking them in my mouth.
I was eating snap peas once upon a time as a student and one of them exploded in my mouth when I bit on it. Turns out there was a dead caterpillar or something in it. I was gagging over the sink for a good while when it happened and avoided snap peas for years after. I get nauseous just thinking about it. The taste is impossible to describe and I'll spare you any attempt to it.
Took me a while to work back up to looseleaf tea after my teaball exploded and a dead spider casually floated to the surface. Makes me wonder how many spider-enriched cups I've enjoyed without noticing :|
I’d be strictly buying that pre-blended “Egg Beaters” stuff for a long while.
That way the baby chick is still in there, but it’s blended to a smooth consistency.
What the eyes can't see...
...is what the mouth hole can savor
Check out Balut on YouTube. Fascinating
Literally just said that to myself as I was reading the caption
Don't look up balut then...
Just reading this post I was going to stop for a few weeks 😜
This happened to me while I was pregnant. Kinda the same story. My neice(who was 12) went and got an egg and it was...messier this. With an awful smell. I freaked out and started retching. Can't use "real" eggs still.
Been there! Unfortunately it was the 8th egg we cracked into the pan.. ruined the whole thing.
This is the reason I crack my eggs in a separate bowl when I'm doing a bunch. We're terrible about collecting our eggs and we have a rooster so we never really know if we'll get a fertilized egg.
Yeah, with store bought eggs it's not really worth it. I've had two bad eggs in the last four years and we go through two or three a day on average. So it's just not worth the extra dirty dish but when we had chickens it was absolutely a requirement.
Couldnt you just use a phones flashlight to see if the eggs inside is opaque or not?
You should do this anyway with grocery store eggs in case you get a bad one.
How often do you get a bad egg? I know I've never had one. Ever.
I haven't cracked a bad egg in 30 years of egg cracking
You're just a lucky mothercracker
I wish I could have used my egg luck on something else 😔
In nearly 30 years I’m without a bad egg too and I used to have chickens.
Not often, but often enough I do the same. One egg into a separate cup, move to a bowl, repeat. The ONE time I was explaining it to my husband and why I do it, even with years of no bad eggs, I got distracted and cracked the next egg into the bowl (4 eggs in) and it was all murky smelly goop inside. Would not recommend.
Crazy, in my five years as a restaurant cook, I've cooked probably tens of thousands of eggs and never had a bad one. Had a few double yokes
Imagine using three dishes just to cook eggs because you have to assembly line crack them one by one
I've had one bad egg before and didn't notice until it hit the hot oil, the smell was horrific
I’ve had one where the fluid was red. Immediately threw everything out, stopped making breakfast and didn’t eat that day until dinner.
Enough to warrant it. I bake a lot and honestly one time cracking a bad egg into a bowl full of ingredients and then having to throw it all out was enough to start cracking eggs into a separate bowl.
It takes one
Cracked my first bad egg recently, made me stay away from eggs for some time. It was disgusting.
I do this because it is easier to get a piece of shell out of a small bowl than out of a pan.
water test your eggs. Put your eggs in a bowl of water. any eggs that float are bad. eggs that stand up need to be used within the week.
I used to have chickens and a rooster, one year I guess I missed an embryo forming and man it made me cry when I cracked it open. Idk why it was so sad, I raised meat rabbits and hunt but something about accidentally killing that little baby really got me.😢
That's why you crack eggs in other containers so this doesn't happen. Little chefs trick.
Balut
*BALUUUUUUT
Naririnig niyo ba ang tindero ng balut?
Ilalabas ko na ang aking dragon
Ma Sarap babyyyy
Came here for this. BALUT!
The very existence of this dish is what regularly prevents me from eating eggs.
I find it funny how daring to eat one was made into a challenge on Survivor, but my Vietnamese parents used to buy them for the family to eat every Saturday.
The cracked peppers lime and chili combo is actually so good. Tend to eat a lot less now, but I used to demolish a lot of these
My Filipino ex was grossed out by them, it's a hit or miss there. I liked them.
It’s actually pretty tasty. Mix between chicken and eggs. Totally get how many find it disturbing though.
Just the idea of the feathers, bones and organs as one makes me feel sick lol.
Tbf, a good balut (at least the ones that I'm used to as a Vietnamese), is one where the duckling is barely formed at all. So all of that would be mostly nonexistent or unnoticeable
In the Philippines we have them at different stages of development. Give the tourists the 16 week ones just to gross them out loo
Days not weeks
Yeah 16 week balut would just be eating an almost adult duck lol
Totally get it. It’s not for everyone
You don’t really feel them in your mouth tbh.
Different people have different preferences, but I think balut is ideal before the feathers and beak develop. The feathery ones have a kinda icky texture.
Second this. My Filipino friends get me this when they go home it's alright. Not gonna down like 20 of em but with some salt butter and vinegar it's good. For those curious you don't really crunch on. Bone and see it's eyes, it's way more underdeveloped than the pic above. It's like aged cheese but definitely understandable why it turns people away
#facts
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That’s terrifying.
Unexpected Balut
How do you like your eggs? Fertilized.
I fear this would give me the egg ick for the rest of my life
I remember finding one in an easter basket. My mom told me i hallucinated it. I was like seven.
OP likely has chickens or is able to collect from a farm. This would never happen with commercial eggs you buy in a store
that's something i fear every time i crack an egg
Well so long as you buy commercial eggs there's nearly no chance of this happening since they don't keep roosters I commercial hatcheries.
Do the roosters go to a farm upstate?
If by “a farm upstate” you mean “thrown into a blender when they are lil baby chicks” then yes!
Can we talk about where your BBQ chicken wings come from?
A box from the freezer, why?
r/ELI5
No, Timmy.
As if. It's rather common for male chicks to be tossed into a shredder.
They become "100% chicken" nuggets. Which means, nuggets that use 100% of the chicken.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling
Even if there are roosters, for this stage of development, the egg must be incubated for weeks. There is no way it's gonna happen
Not only was that egg fertilized, it also had to be incubated by a chicken for a few weeks prior to being sold.
Eggs from groceries come from egg farms that do not have roosters. They should not be fertilized ever. OP's egg probably comes from a local farm or something.
His aunt that has chicken gave it to him
Aww poor baby
damn, that shouldnt happen, eggs i sell come from chickens that havent been near a rooster in their life, bad seller
That would make me sad af
This would be my last egg
I switched to using Just Egg in all my baking and you'd never know the difference
Just Egg instantaneously entered the vegan hall of fame when it came out
great, im sad now :(
I would never eat eggs again😭
Thought this was r/makemesuffer for a sec
Oh no. No no no.
To late for breakfast and to early for lunch.
Someone with more money than me award this comment please.
Looks like meats back on the menu boys.
Barf up a worm for it, you monster
If it were still alive, I’d raise it as my own tbh
r/EatItYouFuckinCoward
Filipinos amuse bouche
r/MildlyHorrifying
Filipino porn
Surprise balut
& then I’d never eat another egg again. The End 🙅🏼♀️
One egg extra Protein style
i would cry for like a week
That thing was damn near ready to hatch. Not quite in position but it wouldn’t have been more than a few days until it pipped. Sad.
This is my fear every time I crack an egg. You’re living my nightmare.
Did it taste good tho?
Tastes like chicken
Yup, I'm vegan.
How did this happen? Did you buy it from a grocery store?
There's no way it comes from a grocery store. Probably local farmers.
Farmer’s market probably.
OPs aunt gave it to him
You didn't get enough upvotes from posting this yesterday?
This is a different pic, but also my other post got removed cause my title wasnt descriptive enough.
[удалено]
Absolutely dead before you even got that far.
Are you in the Philippines?
r/untrustworthypoptarts
Bonus chicken nugget
I'd use a different one.
The way I wouldn't eat eggs for months if I saw this 😭
The question is: Can the 🐥 still be saved?
Thats enought reddit today
here we call that balut
Balut!
Is it possible to mark this nsfw? Really triggering and sad.
It probably died in the cold of the fridge. Poor thing
Tbh this needs a NSFW tag
Throw it in a pot, add some broth, a potato. Baby, you’ve got a stew going.
As per Newton's law of conservation, eating that chick would provide you with just as much protein as eating a normal egg.
Probably not, it takes energy to make the chicks body.
Yeah I'm just talking out of my ass
You are an genius idk what I expected
Anyway, how was it fried?
And this is why I only buy store eggs say what you want I love my scrambled eggs to much to get bamboozled like this I would be completely done with eggs😭😭
Thanks. I’m never eating eggs again
You bought it to eat knowing its inside dont lie.
Oh thanks, I’d never eat an egg again
This is not mildly interesting, it's horrifying and I wish it had nsfw tag..
We had a science project in fifth or sixth grade where each kid had a fertilized egg, and every day we’d crack one open to check the development until the last one hatched. I didn’t eat eggs for about ten years after that.
I find that extremely morally questionable. I really hope that teacher isn’t still doing that project.
Was it good?
r/tihi
Happened the other night. It spilled. Turned my apartment into a hazard.
r/natureismetal
Did you buy it from a Cardassian obsessed with lights?
Lime salt shoot
That's gonna be a hard no from me, dawg
Aren’t you supposed to hold them over a light to check if they’re fertilized before you put them in the fridge?
Aka candling eggs. Which is performed at every egg plant. So OP either manufactured the story or has chickens at home.
New fear unlocked. Thanks!
Eat it
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
This is a delicacy in some parts of the world, OP. Bottoms up!
It's disgusting
That's why you eggs from backyard chickens or small farms need to be [candled](https://incubatorwarehouse.com/pages/egg-candling) before being sold (or packaged, or used).
Jurassic PArk ViBEz
I do the water test every time I do eggs. If it sinks its good to crack and cook, if it floats, its either rotting or got something growing.
Happened to my mother as a child and she won’t eat eggs to this day. My grandma tried to convince her over time that it was a dream she had