Battle of the Eggs
"Ladies and Gentleman... for your edification and entertainment, we now present The Battle for Egg Supremacy!"
"And in this corner, in various shades of brown and tan, we have eggs that came from some chickens at a lady's house down the road a ways. They ate grass, weeds, bugs, grains, and whatever else they felt like."
Round 1:
"Oh, and both fighters have broken their yolks. The eggs have been cracked into bowls, and both yolks have been busted. Well, good thing this is a scrambled egg fight, eh? Egg-Land's Best is looking just a little palid. It's interesting that the yolk is paler, but the white is cloudier. What's that about?"
Round 2:
"Well, both eggs have been scrambled up, and cooking is done. The Egg-Land eggs are still looking a little pale there. I'm not sure if they can go the distance here. I guess those vegetarian fed hens must not get out much. I guess keeping them cooped up is the only way to insure that vegetarian diet, huh? That patented vegetarian diet, I should say."
Round 3:
"Well, the fight is over in the third round. The taste of the farm egg was far superior to 'America's Best Tasting Egg.' Now, I'm not one of those guys who thinks everything natural is always better, but really, it's like comparing store-bought tomatoes in January to one ripe off the vine in July. Maybe I should think about becoming one of those guys. 'America's Best Tasting Egg'? Well, I guess the American Culinary Institute must not have any back yard chickens around, ya know?"
"So in the end, the ragtag bunch of renegade eggs from some lady's back yard beat out the high-end grocery store eggs, and at a dollar a dozen, they came in at half the price. Those plain old back yard eggs are gonna be hard to beat, if you'll pardon the pun..."
6 Comments:
I find that pun almost unforgiveable...
As I have become fond of saying recently-I prefer my food without that transport petroleum aftertaste... And virtually without fail-local/homegrown trumps Store bought everytime. It just take a lot more work.
We don't get white eggs here in the land down under.
Saddness
If I could just find someone to sell me farm eggs I'd pay double what they are in the store! Guess I'll just have to raise my own. ;-)
I have a friend who will only bake with brown eggs - they are hard to find here.
I have noticed that brown eggs do seem to have much more yellow yolks. I don't know if it's because of the type of chicken or what they eat. And I agree, they definately have more flavor.
WILL NOT tell you about my egg catastrophe this morning. Only that something is VERY wrong with my chickens, or the advice that you can keep eggs on the counter. *Blech!*
Duck eggs are the best. The shells are hard as all-get-out to crack, but the eggs are fantastic - you don't even have to mix milk in when scrambling.
And for fun, try Americuna eggs sometime. Ours range from aqua to teal in color. ;)
-a(NNa), figured it's nicer to have a name to put the comment with.
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