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To feel absolutely disgusted eating eggs

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Mummy2022FT · 15/07/2023 12:58

I love eggs made any way and this is why this upsets me.

But this morning (and has happened many times before) I was eating egg on toast for breakfast and half way through eating I was like ERRRR because I then realised what eggs actually are.

Anyone else?

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EmeraldFox · 16/07/2023 09:52

MasterBeth · 16/07/2023 09:32

You are fussy if you won't eat an egg

AN EGG!

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I agree, it's a very basic food to not eat, not like not liking olives or anchovies. I didn't like runny yolk as a child, I think it's pretty normal to have a cooking preference but not eating any egg, at all?

eandz13 · 16/07/2023 09:53

How the fuck can a thread about eggs turn into drama?

But yeah, I do this!! I'll be sat enjoying my peppery eggs on toast... and suddenly my brain will decide it's disgusting, slimy and weird and I couldn't possibly put more in my mouth! 😂

EmeraldFox · 16/07/2023 09:53

Workbabysleeprepeat · 16/07/2023 09:06

@HairMb why are eggs as bad for you as smoking? Curious - I’ve never heard that before?

Yes, can you link to a study comparing eating eggs to smoking?

EmeraldFox · 16/07/2023 09:54

Sorry, should have tagged @HairMb

PollyThePixie · 16/07/2023 09:55

Eggs are delicious.

WedTheBed · 16/07/2023 10:07

@EmeraldFox @MasterBeth I have to disagree! I won’t not-eat eggs. I eat them in cakes, egg fried rice, occasionally a really well flavoured quiche (smoked salmon) - I just don’t like the texture sun the taste of the whites. It’s about the only food I do not like, eggs and liquorice! That absolutely does not make me a fussy eater! ✋🏼

bobblyjob · 16/07/2023 10:35

blahblahblah1654 · 16/07/2023 09:35

Yes same here. I imagine the rest of the diet is mainly very beige with not much variety. A bit like a toddler.

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That is fairly presumptious. I eat an extremely wide variety of foods of all colours and very rarely anything processed. That has literally nothing to do with finding egg texture gross. People on this thread are weirdly offended by people not liking eggs

DdraigGoch · 16/07/2023 10:49

HairMb · 16/07/2023 08:58

They’re so bad for you now matter how nutrient dense they are. It’s like saying smoke a fag to get air.

Bollocks

DdraigGoch · 16/07/2023 10:54

Jennalong · 16/07/2023 09:08

I once went with a friend who had become friends with someone who owned a chicken farm . We went into the barn where she was working . She had just sorted out all the chicks into females / males . The males are gassed or a few sold on for reptile food. That grossed me out. I'd never realised that happened .

Depends upon the chicken farm. At smaller ones the male chicks grow up and are used for meat.

Coolhwip · 16/07/2023 10:56

bobblyjob · 16/07/2023 10:35

That is fairly presumptious. I eat an extremely wide variety of foods of all colours and very rarely anything processed. That has literally nothing to do with finding egg texture gross. People on this thread are weirdly offended by people not liking eggs

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No one is offended. It’s that no one has time to pander to fools who say eggs are as bad as cigarettes or those who say they have a ‘vile stink’.

tt9 · 16/07/2023 13:13

DdraigGoch · 16/07/2023 00:48

Isn't that just going to remove the egg's natural protection? Quite apart from the plastic waste and the batshittery of polishing one's eggshell...

An egg I had recently had been laid in some fresh horse shit.

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I use biodegradable wipes and they are cleaned very gently... so doesn't seem to affect the eggs. I don't store them in the fridge (except if extremely hot) and they stay good for weeks. I'm on chemotherapy so can't be taking any risks

IAmAnIdiot123 · 16/07/2023 13:15

You got the fear, I get this with eggs every now and then, can't eat them for 6 months then go back for a while and the cycle starts again.

MenoRageisReal · 16/07/2023 13:59

HairMb · 16/07/2023 08:58

They’re so bad for you now matter how nutrient dense they are. It’s like saying smoke a fag to get air.

Wtf? Have you beamed in from the "natural fats are bad" 1980's? Are you Rosemary Conley? Grin

MortgageConundrum · 16/07/2023 14:00

IrmaBunt · 15/07/2023 13:03

Yes, this has been me forever, even when I was a child. I have long periods where I can't eat eggs because they disgust me.

I tend to be ok with them in cooking (cakes and so on) but not always.

I’m the same.

MenoRageisReal · 16/07/2023 14:01

MasterBeth · 16/07/2023 09:01

Are we supposed to be impressed that grown adults are squeamish about nutritious food that humans have eaten for millennia? I find it pathetic.

Yeah it's getting a bit silly now with all the "lets out do each other with how gross it is" comments.

WhereYouLeftIt · 16/07/2023 15:54

Mummy2022FT · 15/07/2023 13:02

Eggs are the period of a hen

By all means, don't eat eggs. But that's a particularly stupid 'reason' to not eat them. Periods happen to mammals. Hens are not mammals. Their eggs are nothing like ours, and HENS DON'T HAVE PERIODS.

MenoRageisReal · 16/07/2023 20:10

Op hasn't even been back, hopefully she's off reading about the differences between mammals and avians.

annlopez · 31/07/2023 06:05

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