Saturday, 6 February 2010

FISHY EGG

I can get a bit fussy when it comes to food, or so I'm told. Enjoying salads without drowning them in sauces and food without lashings of extra spices and flavourings -apart from the foodstuffs themselves, appentally makes me an odd-bod if my critics are correct.
I will admit to not being a fan of fish or meat though, I haven't eaten either of the two in over twenty five years and apart from a splosh in my tea or on a pizza, neither do I enjoy milk or cheese. Or eggs (euurgh, the thought of getting a crispy piece of fried or stringy boiled egg in my mouth makes me want to seriously vomit).
The odd thing is that I ever so occasionally crave for some scrambled eggs -but on toast only.
So anyway, I was mulling over what to have for breakfast last weekend and decided on scrambled eggs, for the the first time in many many months.
Being a greeny wimp type I naturally went for the free range kind , this as I found out was no better an idea.
Once I had got home I went through all the palava of removing the 'placenta' bit (the stringy white bit stuck to the yoke -it churns my guts just to write that) before microzapping it, after the first mouthful I was almost sick.
The egg looked and smelled fine, the only problem was what hen that laid the egg had eaten for breakfast, because the egg tasted like manky fish smells... Cheap nasty tasting fish.
I know that the tails, eyes, fins etc. are mushed up and fed to other animals as 'meal' but I didn't expect the taste to come out of a chickens egg, why are they giving fish to chickens in the first place? (actually I know the answer to that, I just wanted to moan about it anyway). Is the price of a well laying hen worth the price of giving animals a totally unnatural diet because of it's high protein value? Not when scrambled egg's taste like school fish finger's it isn't.
So, so nasty.

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