Favorite Foods

[Phone]

barry,

 

I forgot about you. How could I have forgotten such an annoyance. I'm going to see to it from now on you get the "half an egg" that has the shell in it. Seriously, is the yoke separated from the albumen or is it cooked and sliced in half?

 

In the US rooster eggs are about half the size of hen's eggs. Why don't you just eat the smaller rooster egg?

 

Phone

[Steve Walker]

We don't have those in the shops, Phone. We do have quail's eggs, which would work beautifully in a fish pie, but they're expensive.

[Vagabond]

We don't have those in the shops, Phone. We do have quail's eggs, which would work beautifully in a fish pie, but they're expensive.

During WWII, and for a number of years after, when a puritanical socialist government insisted on prolonging rationing, opportunist youngsters supplemented their meagre egg rations (in the spring and early summer months) by collecting the eggs of wild ducks, swans, moorhens, lapwings and any other species that laid a reasonable-sized egg. One of our number had a tame aunt who would turn a collection of eggs into delicious omelets - otherwise we would boil the eggs in a tin can balanced over a campfire (any excuse for having a smokey outdoor fire was good)

 

Later, when I was an impecunious research student marooned on Unst (northenmost Shetland) doing work on the basic rocks there (Known in the trade as an "ophiolite complex") I existed for several weeks on guddled trout and fulmars' eggs. Collecting my breakfast eggs involved cliff climbing and avoiding fulmar attacks - not dangerous, but unpleasant, as fulmars are expert at projectile vomiting, and spray intruders with regurgitated fish soup. I drew the line at collecting gugas (fledgling gannets) as despite having read about Hebrideans eating gugas I preferred trout.

 

I did expect the fulmar eggs to taste fishy, but they didn't, Flavour was very similar to duck eggs.

BTW I had, by then, graduated from a smokey wood fire to a camping-Gaz stove

 

Have since then eaten ostrich eggs.

Edited August 29, 2015 by Vagabond

[Vagabond]

In the US rooster eggs are about half the size of hen's eggs.

Language problem here. WTH is a "rooster egg" ?

 

In English, rooster = young cockerel - none of ours lay eggs ! They are too busy laying hens

 

Do you mean what we call "bantams" ?

[chesters1]

foghorn leghorn was pretty tall for a bantam

i say foghorn leghorn was pretty tall for a bantam

i just though a rooster was a chicken in americanium or a one eye cowboy or his cat called (i think )General Sterling Price

 

 

the chink is using an early steam powered zx 65

Edited August 29, 2015 by chesters1

[barry luxton]

barry,

 

I forgot about you. How could I have forgotten such an annoyance. I'm going to see to it from now on you get the "half an egg" that has the shell in it. Seriously, is the yoke separated from the albumen or is it cooked and sliced in half?

 

In the US rooster eggs are about half the size of hen's eggs. Why don't you just eat the smaller rooster egg?

 

Phone

 

I dunno phone, here I am offering up culinary delight that's knocks spots off cow guts skin stew and also looks good and all you can suggest is that I eat eggshells. Gratitude knows no bounds. and yes cut it in half.

[Phone]

Vagabond,

 

Rooster (male chickens) egg is pulling barry's chain. Same as you - it would be like a buck deer having a fawn.

 

What we do have is "fighting cocks" - sometimes very interesting meal can be had eating cocks.

 

Phone

[Vagabond]

- sometimes very interesting meal can be had eating cocks.

...reminds me of the story of the gourmet who wanted to eat the same supper as bull-fighters did.

[Steve Walker]

Sometimes the toreador wins - sometimes the bull!

[Ken L]

Strangely enough, "Cock eggs" exist.