Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

to think WTF?

255 replies

missbonita · 09/04/2018 12:11

I have a small holding and keep free range chickens.

Dropping DD at a friends this morn I took a box of our multicoloured eggs as a little thank you. When I handed them over she handed them straight back with a look of absolute disgust on her face and said "Oh, no thanks, I cant eat them when I know where they've been" and made a gipping noise/sick face. I thought it was pretty rude but just smiled and apologised "sorry, I didn't know you didn't eat eggs". She then said "I we eat eggs, but I wouldn't eat those" and turned away. She then opened the fridge to put away groceries she was unpacking and I saw a huge box of every day value eggs from tesco.

I didn't say anything else and left but why on earth would anyone eat eggs from caged hens and not free range eggs?

OP posts:
PoohBearsHole · 09/04/2018 13:19

OP I'd love it if you brought eggs around - I am jealous of people who have chickens and therefore eggs. I am not able to have them :(

Sn0tnose · 09/04/2018 13:19

She's the strange one OP, not you.

A colleague used to bring excess eggs into work to sell and they were beautiful. selfish bugger then moved to Scotland with absolutely no thoughts given to our free range egg requirements

CoolCarrie · 09/04/2018 13:21

What a stupid thing to say to you, all eggs come out the chickens bum, even Tesco ones! Ahh well she doesn’t know what she is missing, lovely eggs, from well looked after chickens.

AgentHannahWells · 09/04/2018 13:22

You should totally brand your eggs 'Chickens Chuff great unwashed eggs'

YearOfYouRemember · 09/04/2018 13:22

Maybe it's like someone who has a pet lamb and then doesn't want to eat it when it dies as they know it?

EspressoButler · 09/04/2018 13:23

This reply has been deleted

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Morphene · 09/04/2018 13:23

wow but people are weird...and rude.

Your eggs sound so cool OP...like having a pearl opening party...without the fake pearls and dye...

InsomniaInTheMiddle · 09/04/2018 13:27

Very rude!!!

But I'm here and I'm not rude; I'll even bake a cake to say Thanks.

MaggieFS · 09/04/2018 13:27

Please do ask her, I'd love to know the logic!!

JaniceBattersby · 09/04/2018 13:27

I totally get where she’s coming from. My MIL has chickens and eating the eggs makes me feel a little bit ill, even though they are much nicer tasting than those from the supermarket. I’m also odd about milk and cream. I can’t drink it unless I’ve opened the carton myself. I have no idea why. I am otherwise completely normal.

Yogagirl123 · 09/04/2018 13:29

They sound fab OP, I would have been grateful.

TerfsUp · 09/04/2018 13:29

What a silly woman. OP, your eggs sound gorgeous and I would be more than happy to take them off your hands! Grin

Tigresswoods · 09/04/2018 13:32

She's being proper weird. I have friends who won't buy from the butcher & prefer the supermarket for some reason. Butcher is cheaper & nicer. I don't get it.

SweetMoon · 09/04/2018 13:35

That is really rude. What a nice gesture from you, I'd be really chuffed if someone gave me some of their chickens eggs as a thankyou

DaffodilPower · 09/04/2018 13:36

I would love to be able to get hold of some actual free-range eggs, rather than supermarket ones..

What a crazy lady!!

Perhaps it's because they're not lion marked?

waterlego6064 · 09/04/2018 13:38

Is it just because they've had much further to go from the nest to the supermarket shelf? Even if not washed, they will still be moved and possible handled too so maybe any dirt dries and drops off by the time they're in the shop. And maybe their birds are less 'free range' than on a smallholding like the OPs. I don't know what suppliers have to do to earn the 'free range' label, but I would think there is a spectrum of what is acceptable.

Bojangles33 · 09/04/2018 13:38

Bizarrely, my mum is exactly the same! She keeps chickens but can't eat their eggs because it grosses her out, but will eat eggs from a supermarket! Works out fine for me, I get her lovely free range chicken eggs for free! People are weird.

waterlego6064 · 09/04/2018 13:39

Ah, I see that question has been answered in the time it took me to post!

starlightmeteorite · 09/04/2018 13:40

She was very rude but perhaps she is someone who prefers eggs from vaccinated hens. Lots of people do because of the salmonella issue. Other people have issues with vaccines. Each to their own.

InsomniacAnonymous · 09/04/2018 13:41

starlightmeteorite the OP's hens are vaccinated.

waterlego6064 · 09/04/2018 13:41

It's naughty, but I would have been tempted (upon seeing her value eggs) to say: 'Oh...not sure what you were planning to feed the children today, but just to say my DD can't have those supermarket eggs, in case you were planning to offer her those'.

BMW6 · 09/04/2018 13:42

What a strange person!

diddl · 09/04/2018 13:43

She should just have said that she had enough.

At least she didn't take the & throw them away.

Just looked at Tesco value eggs.

70p for 6-caged hens?

Is that battery hens?

Thought that that was banned now?

strawberrysparkle · 09/04/2018 13:47

OMG she's mental, proper free range eggs are so yummy

Knittedfairies · 09/04/2018 13:50

Reminds me of my BIL who bought some bantams. He threw away the first lot of eggs because he ‘didn’t know how long they’d been up there’...😅😂🤣

Swipe left for the next trending thread