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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?

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AtrociousCircumstance · 10/04/2018 01:21

The rudeness of making a retching noise 🤣

MidniteScribbler · 10/04/2018 01:51

She's nuts.

I wonder if she's the same women who I met on the island where I spend my holidays. The local men go out fishing most days and bring back absolutely beautiful deep sea fish which they fillet and sell straight from the dock in the late afternoon. This woman was complaining because the local store didn't sell frozen fish fillets, and when told she could buy fish on the docks, looked horrified and said that it didn't smelt like fish down there, so she didn't think it sounded very fresh.

Daifuku9 · 10/04/2018 02:23

Her loss! I much prefer free range or pasture raised hen’s eggs.
She was rude and letting her ignorance show.
🐓

MrsCrabbyTree · 10/04/2018 02:51

Love Mumsnet. Every now and then their are snippets about folk and their eccentricities which allow me to think that perhaps I am normal after all. Wink

MrsCrabbyTree · 10/04/2018 02:52

And I am not admitting to which side of the eccentricity fence I belong. Grin

viques · 10/04/2018 15:00

Don't you mean the eggcentricity fence?

Gets coat, hat, scarf. Leaves.

UpstartCrow · 10/04/2018 16:16

Ba dum tiss Grin

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Murinae · 10/04/2018 16:26

My MIL refused my eggs from my chickens as there was no best before date stamp on and how would she know if they were too old to eat!

LakieLady · 10/04/2018 17:31

She's crazy! I'd have bitten your hand off - a really fresh, free range egg is so much nicer than a supermarket one!

But you have reminded me that a colleague got some chooks just before Christmas, they must be laying now. I'll have to drop some hints ...

MissDuke · 10/04/2018 17:39

Did the eggs have bits of mud/feathers stuck to them? I don't buy eggs from farms as they always look a bit grubby (I know it's only the shells but they smell of chicken poo and I don't want to have to wash them before they go in the fridge). I would never decline a thoughtful gift though

I was taught in H.E. in school not to wash eggs, but to wash my hands well after handling them. We were told washing has a negative impact on the integrity of the shell so they will go 'off' quicker - who knows if this is correct but it always stuck with me! We were taught at the same time that over time, the shell thins and the contents evaporate a bit and so the egg becomes lighter when it goes off, therefore a good way to test freshness is to drop it in a glass of water - if it floats, it is not fresh. I still do this but have never actually checked if it is correct Grin

FranticallyPeaceful · 10/04/2018 17:40

That’s absolutely bizarre

hdh747 · 10/04/2018 17:55

But the eggs from Tesco's don't come out of actual chicken's bits surely?Wink
Seriously though maybe she's a bit OCD and equates good natural stuff with dirt and germs while those boxes from the supermarket seem all sterile and clean.

jobobpip08 · 10/04/2018 17:59

Sorry if someone has already mentioned this - we've got our own hens too, I've had people pull a funny face as they thought the eggs were fertilised. Even though we haven't got a cockerel! They've had to have a good think about it to see that I was right and they weren't. Absolutely her loss though!

And yes, if you wash an egg you wash off the coating that 'seals' it and keeps it fresh.

Yorkshiretolondon · 10/04/2018 18:06

As already said..’can’t argue with stupid!’
I’d love them and would feel very lucky to be given such a gift- change the friend not the gift lol

aspoonfulofyourownmedicine · 10/04/2018 18:14

Oh wow! I'd have snapped your hand off for some lovely fresh eggs. My sister used to work on a farm where we'd get fresh free range hens eggs and once had a goose egg, now that was a corker and filled my large frying pan! They still sell them onsite but are usually sold out by mid-morning

I buy Lintz Derwent Valley eggs, all free range and laid in the locality

Goodasgoldilox · 10/04/2018 18:19

Pearls before swine!
She missed out on a real treat.

ILostItInTheEarlyNineties · 10/04/2018 18:25

She made a gagging noise and sick face? Wow some friend! What a childish thing to do.

Sparklyhousedust · 10/04/2018 18:26

How extraordinary. A friend once brought me some of her eggs after I did her a small favour and I don’t think i’ve ever been so pleased by a thank you gift! Didn’t occur to me to wonder about vaccinations etc- possibly it should have but I ate them and they were fabulous:)

rwalker · 10/04/2018 18:27

very very rude even if you didn't want they should of taken them said thanks and just binned them .As for pulling face and sick noise how old is she

Plainlycrackers · 10/04/2018 18:47

I have a friend like this... she can’t cope with any food that hasn’t been processed/sanitised - can’t knowingly eat home grown fruit or veg let alone Home produced eggs.... she knows it is irrational and illogical but she can’t overcome it. It is worst with food that isn’t cooked before eating. This is an intelligent woman who is qualified to degree level in nutrition... it is entirely psychological and she hates it but struggles to even make small steps to overcome it.

However most people who react like that seem to be just badly educated about the origin of food... have you seen the scary stuff about where some kids think food comes from?

cashmerecardigans · 10/04/2018 18:49

Am I right in thinking that there are requirements around organic eggs that mean that the chickens have to have a specific amount of space? I work on the theory that free range might just mean not caged, but I'm sure I've read that organic has stricter requirements?

RainbowGlitterFairy · 10/04/2018 18:51

Has she met your chickens?

As a child I couldn't eat the eggs from my grandmothers farm because the chickens had names and I had fed them and just felt really weird about it, which I know is ridiculous.

pollymere · 10/04/2018 18:53

Maybe she meant that as she knows the hens, she wouldn't be able to get the image of them laying them out of her head? My dd wouldn't eat British pork for about a year after meeting some local pigs, just in case it was the ones she'd met.

FaveNumberIs2 · 10/04/2018 18:54

She’s just one of many who have been brought up to think production line perfection is the right thing to do, without realising that her “perfect” eggs are actually very far from it, and that nature’s bounty is often miscoloured and misshapen, but better for you.

Don’t take it personally, some people will never change. Xx

FaveNumberIs2 · 10/04/2018 18:56

@rwalker bin them???? WTH? If I was that way inclined then I’d at least pass them onto someone else rather than bin them!