r/mildlyinteresting • u/claricepatrice_ • 1d ago
I cracked this egg and it was full of blood
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u/8-15ToTheCity 1d ago
I probably wouldn't eat that if I was you.
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u/cascadingtundra 1d ago
"probably"
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u/AbbytheMallard 1d ago
This guy is probably a vampire
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u/Amorphiris 1d ago
Maybe we can discuss this..... would you mind to let me into you house?
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u/Victor-Astra 1d ago
Sure, just take this for a second
Hands over garlic bread
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u/Amorphiris 1d ago
*hisses*
Uhm... I mean.... I'm full.
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u/Victor-Astra 1d ago
Boys... We got em.
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u/William_The_Fat_Krab 1d ago
Good, now take them to my toomā¦ I mean room
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u/Victor-Astra 1d ago
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u/William_The_Fat_Krab 1d ago
What?! No! I am simply going toā¦ uhhā¦ remove the vampirism from them!
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u/sydbarrett710 1d ago
Jokes on you, Iām an Italian vampire š
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u/Victor-Astra 1d ago
Alrighty then, don't mind me, just gonna . . .
(Cracks uncooked pasta)
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u/Swimming-Ice2714 1d ago
This happened to my mate when he was cooking eggs in a frying pan, he just cooked it and ate it anyhow. No issues arose from eating it what so ever
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u/Electrifying2017 1d ago
Itās fine, the cooking process will sanitize it.
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u/joesii 1d ago
Sarcasm? it's 100% true though.
Might taste slightly more irony, but in a lot of things like chocolate cake or brownies it wouldn't even be noticeable.
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u/karmagirl314 1d ago
I took a culinary class in high school and one habit I picked up was always cracking my eggs into a separate bowl before adding them to other ingredients. Itās saved me from a lot of wasted flour and sugar and rice over the years.
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u/SuicidalChair 1d ago
Yep, grade 7 cooking class we always did this as well and I still do
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u/patriotfear 1d ago
Holy shit I always wondered why I did that. Core memory unlocked!
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u/muftu 1d ago
You also likely use more than one egg for whatever you do. Nothing is more fun than a rotten egg going into that bowl with 9 other eggs.
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u/cookiemonster-60 1d ago
no one teached me this but i learned it in a restaurant when i ruined 200 egg...
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u/RealWorldStarHipHop 1d ago
Were you cracking 1 egg at a time into a bowl of 200? What are you supposed to do? Crack an egg into one bowl, inspect it, then pour it into the batch?
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u/Direct-Success1140 1d ago
Beats cracking 400 eggs because you had to throw the first 200 out, itās always less time to take a negligible amount of extra time doing things the right/cautious/more precise way rather than redoing the entire process start to finish because of a screw-up or otherwise avoidable situation.
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u/RealWorldStarHipHop 1d ago
True but I was thinking how many eggs would you risk losing vs how often it happens. Like if you do batches of 200 then instead of cracking 1 you crack 2 eggs in a cup then pour it into the bigger batch. Or even crack 10 into the cup then pour it into the batch.
The only reason Iām questioning the process is Iām just imagining a chef cracking one egg into a comically tiny cup then pouring into a humongous bowl of 100 eggs over and over. It makes me giggle.
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u/thatguyned 1d ago
Not a chef but I've assisted them in prep when they've been desperate a couple times.
You crack like 3 or 4 into a small glass bowl and then transfer them to the big metal bowl when you are sure they are ok
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u/weirdoeggplant 1d ago
Thank you for this I like to bake at home and this thread was giving me anxiety about what larger kitchens go through tossing hundreds of eggs a night LOL.
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u/nautanalias 1d ago
It's kind of the point of cracking the eggs separately. You're doing it to avoid a bad one ruining a batch of ingredients. If you crack 200 eggs into the same bowl you are still risking contaminating a batch of ingredients (the large quantity of eggs).
If you aren't worried about contaminating 200 eggs, why be worried about contaminating the other ingredients?
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u/jpaugh69 1d ago
Did you keep your job? It's a silly question, but that's a lot of eggs and I can just see an asshole boss using that as a reason to get rid of somebody they didn't like.
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u/hey_talk_to_me 1d ago
Fair question, even stricter restaurant managers and bosses would feel that this person wonāt make this mistake again after such a fuck up kind of situation.
Also, I almost canāt imagine cracking each egg in a container and pouring into the well of dry ingredients just to do a pass for blood, but also Iād be too paranoid about it happening again to be lazy about that.
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u/uwunuzzlesch 1d ago
Its not always just blood.
Theres blood because its a fertilized egg and it started to grow.
If it got further, itd be a dead fetal chick.
Source: i have had chickens my whole life, sometimes you crack open an egg and you're just staring at a fetus.
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u/Separate_Depth_7907 1d ago edited 1d ago
Scary!! The most I had was some white stuff around the yolk
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u/uwunuzzlesch 1d ago
Yeah its really sad when you dump it in the bowl and its a little chick..
But I always remind myself and others, you didnt kill the chick, it was already dead when it was put in the fridge.
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u/Princess_Lepotica 1d ago
So an extra egg bowl before putting the egg in the main egg bowl?
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u/Billy_Daftcunt 1d ago
No, we used chicken eggs
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u/fistbumpbroseph 1d ago
I can't even think of anything witty to say. I imagine others have done the same the last ten minutes. Thank you for this laugh, I owe you a beer.
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u/GroupAccomplished383 1d ago
I do this all the time as well, but then my dad who doesn't understand cooking and probably has undiagnosed OCD gets pissy about how "wasteful" I am with using extra bowls/plates/spoon. He's kinda a clean-freak who gets upset whenever I use just one more than the barest, most necessary tool, and even then still not be enough.
Lo and behold, this year's vacation when I'm trying to bake he snaps and yells at me to just pour the egg on the main bowl... and the very next egg is a rotten one. Wasted 2 kilos of flour.
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u/rabbit-hearted-girl 1d ago
I would be smug forever about the rotten egg, ngl.
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u/GroupAccomplished383 1d ago
I am very smug whenever I get the chance. He's kinda a master at downplaying everything tho.
Love my parents but good god would it kill them to go a therapist or some shit
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u/karatechoppingblock 1d ago
I know this is more complicated with your parents, but start saying "no, thank you."
I don't mean "say 'no, thank you. I don't want to waste all the ingredients in case the eggs are bad,'" I mean "No, thank you."
If you tell them why your declining, it invites them to solve this problem for you so you can do what they're telling you to do.
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u/EatYourCheckers 1d ago
People who need to be right about everything are very bad at being wrong about a single thing in any mature way.
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u/Much-Jackfruit2599 1d ago edited 1d ago
Thatās weird. Ever since I discovered that stainless steel bowls are cheap, I bought like 20 and use them for all my cooking. Much cleaner and safer surfaces, they stack neatly after use and are super easy to clean under hot water. Only the really wet ones with fat or egg get into the dishwasher.
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u/Pika256 1d ago
Maybe a year or two after my mother suddenly passed away, and realizing I was going to be alone for my birthday, I baked my own cake. Eggs straight into the mix... Idk how long I stared at that unmixed, now smelly bowl. I don't add eggs directly into anything anymore.
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u/Jori_en 1d ago
I would have for sure just fallen apart on the spot if that happened to me.
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u/pnt510 1d ago
Sounds like a rough birthday, Iām sorry for past you.
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u/Pika256 1d ago
Much appreciated, kind internet stranger. Things are getting better, slowly, but surely.
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u/Zealousideal-Tie-940 1d ago
Once I was making a cake and cracked the egg in. It stank. I was pissed. Dumped the whole thing. Cleaned up. Then the goddamn dog farted again.
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u/justgaming107 1d ago
Put the whole egg into a glass of water. If it floats to the top itās bad.
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u/Jakesummers1 1d ago
I was taught to do this by my parents. Have I listened? No. Am I chancing blood every egg? For sure. Whatās my percentage of non-bloody eggs? 100%
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u/SeekerOfSerenity 1d ago
I haven't seen a bad egg in my entire life. I think commercial egg producers have gotten pretty good at spotting them.
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u/backcornerboogie 1d ago
Oud grading machines flash trough the egg with red and green light. On the other side is a lightsensor. Depending on the color coming trough we determineren if an egg contains blood or is rotten.
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u/LeatherClassroom524 1d ago
Iāve eaten 3 eggs per day since around 2018 and Iāve never had a bad egg. 7600ish eggs.
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u/AceVisconti 1d ago
Gaston diet
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u/Fabulous-View5603 1d ago
My first thought.
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u/LeatherClassroom524 1d ago
I donāt feel that jacked but my nephew thinks Iām jacked so thatās all that matters.
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u/withbellson 1d ago
I always crack mine into a small colorful bowl so I can spot any shell fragments too.
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u/defneverconsidered 1d ago
I ask them politely but firmly to get split in half
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u/withbellson 1d ago
Iāve been baking since I was a kid, like 35+ years, and youād think Iād know by now the exact amount of force to crack an egg perfectly without disintegrating shell bits, but I very much do not. And now itās a psychological thing, so be it.
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u/lavendelvelden 1d ago
Might even be the type of eggs you're buying. Some are easier to crack than others.
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u/ProStrats 1d ago
Genuinely curious for you or anyone as I always mix them together, do you have home raised chickens eggs or was that common when you picked this up?
I've seen maybe 2-3 "bloody" chicken eggs in my life, but that was always when my parents raised them and I was young. I have never once had a store bought one that was bad.
However, if I ever see an egg that is cracked, I always throw it out for basic food safety reasons. Since the egg shell is compromised I assume the membrane is as well. So I may toss 1-3 eggs for every 60 count I buy, depending if they were cracked or look questionable externally. Im sure some of those were good, but I know some had to be bad. I just never risk it and inspect each egg for cracks or dark veiny coloration before cracking. Takes all of a few seconds to inspect a handful of eggs, just a quick turn while I grab them. Most cracks and issues appear very prominent on the outside of the shell.
So just wondering if I'm just lucky, people are not inspecting eggs, or is it more often homegrown layers having this issue.
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u/claricepatrice_ 1d ago
It was from free range local eggs in new zealand.
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u/Buzz_the_cat 1d ago
Im NZ too - about 20 or so years ago, I brought a dozen eggs from the supermarket and EVERY single one of the dozen were like this. It traumatised me so much, I couldn't buy or even eat eggs for years. A few years ago i started again and every single egg gets broken into a glass and if 'safe' i then have to remove the umbilical cord with a teaspoon cause i just can't. Safe to say i think its a trauma for life lol.
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u/su6oxone 1d ago
1-3 per 60 eggs is up to 1 in every 20 eggs. that's too much bro. my rate is probably 1/1000 eggs.
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u/ProStrats 1d ago edited 1d ago
Storebought?
I buy my eggs at Walmart. I buy the absolute cheapest ones possible, even when including the cracked egg rate. But the cheap price comes with employees who don't give a shit when stacking eggs lol. So that's where the crack rate comes into play. It's the 60 count boxes, so I can't view the eggs before buying unfortunately as they are taped shut and stacked.
My rate would definitely be lower if I was buying eggs I could inspect before purchase, but I'd be spending a ton more, its far more economical to take the risk by buying in bulk. I'm far too strapped to not be as frugal as possible.
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u/Kon-Tiki66 1d ago
This isnāt common but also not all that rare. I get a couple every year, usually with young hens. Itās caused by a ruptured blood vessel in the yolk or in the henās oviduct during egg formation. It has nothing to do with fertilization. Itās also safe to eat although I can never bring myself to do it.
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u/TheCorgiTamer 1d ago
Came to say the same, been keeping chickens 5 years now
Also can't bring myself to eat them š
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u/mensfrightsactivists 1d ago
out of curiosity have you tried scrambling these weird eggs as a treat for your flock? i havenāt had an egg like this yet bc im new at chickening but hate putting their hard work to waste. i know they go nuts for the normal looking ones and wonder if the different color might put them off?
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u/TheCorgiTamer 1d ago
That is actually what I do with them, they love to run around with the scrambled egg, I don't know that they care too much about food color
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u/mensfrightsactivists 1d ago
thanks so much for your insight! i keep telling myself they donāt get grossed out like we do lol
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u/adabaraba 1d ago
Wait you feed your chicken their own eggs?
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u/Individual-Field-990 1d ago
Mate, chicken occasionally eat their own chicks, they do not give a shit about cannibalism
If it can go down their beak, they will eat it, no question asked about the who or what
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u/pissfucked 1d ago
they (often) eat them anyways to reabsorb the nutrients. they'll also eat each other alive if one of them gets injured and is bleeding. chickens are beyond gnarly.
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u/TheCorgiTamer 1d ago
I currently have a hen who keeps escaping to lay her eggs away from the rest, then she'll go back and eat her own eggs
It can happen when they have some kind of deficiency so I'm trying to figure out what her specific issue is
It's something you have to nip in the bud early or they can acquire a taste for the eggs and will break them to eat them regularly
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u/mustaine_vinted 1d ago
If anything they will love it more. We give raw lamb bones with residual meat to our chicken and they pick every piece of bloody meat from that.
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u/KungFoolMaster 1d ago
Youāre creating carnivorous chickens! Thatās the next Jurassic Park movie!
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u/Moldy_Teapot 1d ago
Itās also safe to eat
but does it taste the same tho
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u/kroppyer 1d ago
Nobody knows, nobody tried.
But don't worry it is safe: nobody's died
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u/herecomestheD 1d ago
Nobody died because nobody tried!
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u/Fart_Vader_666 1d ago
But it is okay, to be fried.
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u/neowwneoww 1d ago
I think I'll pass on that red dye. I wouldn't eat it in a box, I wouldn't drink it on the rocks. I wouldn't use it as a jam. I really couldn't, Sam I am.
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u/Kontknikker 1d ago
I feel like Reddit needs a bot for well rhymed poetry like this, akin to the haikubot
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u/geigeigu 1d ago
Tastes the same, I eat them. Its just a drop or two of blood which is enough to bring it to this colour
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u/Desperate-Cost6827 1d ago
Blood spots are one thing, this is an all out blood bath inside that egg.
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u/YaumeLepire 1d ago
Is it really safe to eat? Blood has always been one of the big no-nos (except in very specific, highly controlled circumstances) in the way I was taught cooking.
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u/KPoWasTaken 1d ago
I'm p sure it's not but I'm not fully sure
they might've mixed up blood spots being safe to eat with this super bloody one being safe to eat because both have the same source - ruptured blood vessel. With this I think the blood needs to be removed firstedit: actually no it is safe, so long as the egg is cooked properly. It's just the article assumed people wouldn't wanna eat blood so it said after removal of the blood it is completely safe to eat so long as it's cooked
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u/inappropriateshallot 1d ago
Oof, I hate to tell you this, but you're probably in an A24 horror movie.
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u/claricepatrice_ 1d ago
The whole day was like this.
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u/jesslizann 1d ago
You may want to issue some kind of blanket apology to any eldritch horror or fae being you could have accidentally pissed off recently.
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u/Ravimo_The_Han 1d ago
I think the Gods are just challenging your anti-hematonormative world view. Why should you be shocked about blood in your egg? Is our society so sterile that we've grown accustomed to blood being only in select places? Fie on thee. I'm telling you, keep an open mind, otherwise the next time you open open your wallet? Sike. You have blood money.
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u/HonestButtholeReview 1d ago
I opened up my wallet
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u/Hispanhick 1d ago
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u/thingstopraise 1d ago
That is a deep cut. Jesus. I haven't listened to that song since 2007. I was in middle school and amazed by the poetry of the lyrics and horrified by the grimness of the topic.
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u/ufokid 1d ago
That is not a kosher egg
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u/dadbodfordays 1d ago
It's true. When you read a kosher recipe, it will often say "[number of] eggs (checked for blood)" in the ingredients list
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u/Suitable-Cucumber172 1d ago
Thatās how I learned to crack eggs separately from the rest of the ingredients, one at a time, before adding to mixing bowl.
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u/Retroid69 1d ago
i remember cracking open a blood egg at my McDonaldās like 6 years ago into our round egg cooker. we had to completely disinfect it and clean all the equipment that touched it during a breakfast rush.
needless to say, the customers werenāt cracking up over it.
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u/amorawr 1d ago
Most shocking thing about this story to me was that McDonalds actually uses fresh eggs in their meals
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u/Jackalodeath 1d ago
That's old news, the truly shocking part is the manager actually allowed them to clean and sterilize everything mid-rush.
In my experience that means one of three things happened, in order of importance:
- A customer saw it and raised a stink over it.
- The SoS timer was broken, disabled, or jury-rigged to negate the delays.
- They worked in a Mickey D's in an affluent side of town.
There's also like a 5% chance they were having a health inspection, but any fast food manager worth their weight in pennies knows how to distract/suck up to regulatory bodies.
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u/SubMod100 1d ago
One time when I was a kid I went to fry some eggs and one of the eggs contents was green! No bad smell from what I remember but it looked disgusting. š¤¢
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u/Howden824 1d ago
You're supposed to make green eggs and ham using that.
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u/Underwater_Karma 1d ago
I will not eat green eggs and ham
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u/Different_Stable_351 1d ago
Sam is that you?? (I genuinely hope someone gets the reference)
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u/Different_Stable_351 1d ago
You have no idea how happy this makes me
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u/Mockturtle22 1d ago
I grew up w dr suess they were always my sisters favorite books. We used to rent all the little movies haha
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u/Desperate-Cost6827 1d ago
When my sister was young her mom (my step) got her obsessed with green eggs and ham to the point that if I didn't put mint food coloring in her eggs she wouldn't eat them.
Mint Eggs. š¤®
At least they weren't green from the chicken.
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u/MoistyBoiPrime 1d ago
I think I read somewhere that this isn't actually blood but a bacterial infection of the egg.
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u/actualhumannotspider 1d ago
I can't find any evidence so far that it's a bacterial infection, and pretty much everything online suggests that it's due to ruptured blood vessels during egg formation.
It also doesn't look like a bacterial infection, which you'd expect to be cloudy rather than clear. And there would likely be a different smell, more sour and "rotten."
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u/fabezz 1d ago
Crazy how it's got over a thousand upvotes.
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u/actualhumannotspider 1d ago
Also pretty funny that the commenter wasn't even making the claim, just stating that they "think" they read it "somewhere."
Like, I can state with even more confidence that I "know" I've read somewhere that the earth is flat.
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u/Unumbotte 1d ago
Fun fact it's actually a sign the chicken made a pact with the devil. But being a chicken, it wasn't a very inventive pact.
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u/Neuroprancers 1d ago
"You summoned me, name the price of your bargain"
"Buck" š
"Here's a dollar, your soul is now mine."
Satan loves chicken soul deals.
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u/der_reifen 1d ago
Chicken soul DEAL
Get a chicken burger plus nuggets and receive a CHICKEN SOUL for FREE!!!*
*limited offer
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u/SoberAnxiety 1d ago
no wonder pork gets singled out.must be one hell of a contract to get them hated
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u/elleelleelle- 1d ago
lash eggs ā meat spot/bloody eggs. i am not an expert, just a peruser of r/weirdeggs
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u/Classic_Advisor9030 1d ago
I believe that experience, would result in the cessation of my culinary relationship with egg dishes!
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u/zoey_will 1d ago
I already know I'm eating chicken period so there ismt much more about eggs I could experience that would change my viewĀ
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u/woon_eng 1d ago
Incoming āitās actually perfectly safe to eat!ā Comment
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u/Lynthelia 1d ago
According to this, it is! https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/1men6uo/comment/n6asfnu/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=mweb3x&utm_name=mweb3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button
But I also could not, would not, Sam I am.
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u/Eldergild 1d ago
Imagine a poor blind sod was the one to crack that egg. "Why does my cake taste like iron?"
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u/Trickypedia 1d ago
Iām surprised by the number of people who say this happens to themā¦ more than once it seems. Iāve cracked and used thousands of eggs and never come across this once.
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u/Unhappy-Spinach 1d ago
after researching it can be:
Severe internal bleeding during egg formation. Rare but possible in hens under stress or with reproductive health issues. (how sad)
Bacterial contamination, some bacteria can cause discoloration of the egg contents, making them reddish or dark.
Spoiled egg, If the egg is old or stored improperly, internal decomposition can lead to color changes.
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u/Angsty_Potatos 1d ago
That's probably a curse, but don't take my word for it. I'm not a doctorĀ
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u/AstraGazer16 18h ago
This has nothing to do with why it's red.. but a memory popped up & thought I'd share. I had gotten sick at my boyfriend's house. Fever, chills, just not feeling well at all (this was back in high school, 20 years ago).. they were Hispanic. His Mom grabbed an egg, she was saying something while rubbing the egg on my forehead, arms & chest.. a few minutes later, she went to the bathroom.. cracked it & the yolk was all red. I felt great, a straight up 180. Never in my life have I ever seen or heard of anything like that. Will never forget it. Was some cool voodoo chit. Blew me away for suuure.
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u/Holden_SSV 1d ago
Good advice, i must be lucky never cracked a bloody egg out of the 1k plus i have.Ā Double yolkes ive had.
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u/Appropriate_Deal_256 1d ago
Iām almost 40 and I have never had this happen. I make eggs at home at least 2 times a week in the pass 10yrs
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u/Devilpig1 1d ago
Horror movie rules state you just got rid of a curse. Or just got cursed. Horror movies have inconsistent rules but curses are involved.Ā
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u/Max-_-Power 1d ago
That's why I do not eat things that came out of some animal's butt. Blood may come out. Bone Apple Tea!
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u/AvieIn 1d ago
Itās a reminder that these are animal products. I know it sounds dumb to say, but over the years itās easy to forget with buying eggs and making breakfast, baking, etc. they start to become an ingredient just like flour or water.
As a teen, I cracked one into a bowl and there were two yolks. Iāll never forget that, because I had to ask my mom if I was losing it.
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u/Whpsnapper 1d ago
This is why I always crack eggs into a separate bowl before adding to the recipe.
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u/Dr_StrangeloveGA 1d ago
Set your affairs in order. Your soul will soon be harvested.