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thebeave said:
Those broken white oblate spheriod things on the plate look familiar. I think that's what people used to eat back in the olden days.
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It’s forgiveable if you’re a little confused. Those things on the plate are actually containers for the things people used to eat, and you’re not supposed to eat them. Makes me nostalgic just looking at them.
I think they’re called ”shells”.
 
thebeave said:
Those broken white oblate spheriod things on the plate look familiar. I think that's what people used to eat back in the olden days.
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English! Why is my first thought "what color is broken white"? :) (Well, I spent a few hours today when a parser puked on "SilverVelvet", by context it must be a color but I'm far enough away from production that I can't be certain.)

Elixir said:
thebeave said:
Those broken white oblate spheriod things on the plate look familiar. I think that's what people used to eat back in the olden days.
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It’s forgiveable if you’re a little confused. Those things on the plate are actually containers for the things people used to eat, and you’re not supposed to eat them. Makes me nostalgic just looking at them.
I think they’re called ”shells”.
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The insides are also white. (And given near price parity my wife's preference is for brown outsides. They're not automatically "white" to me.)
 
It's been a long time since I saw a white hen's egg. They are all brown around here.

Eggs at the local supermarket are AU$6.30/doz here - that's about US$4 (US$3.64 if we adopt the US convention of quoting prices before sales tax).

Although since cyclone Alfred, the shelves are bare - so you can't get eggs at any price right now.
 
bilby said:
It's been a long time since I saw a white hen's egg. They are all brown around here.

Eggs at the local supermarket are AU$6.30/doz here - that's about US$4 (US$3.64 if we adopt the US convention of quoting prices before sales tax).

Although since cyclone Alfred, the shelves are bare - so you can't get eggs at any price right now.
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Sure you can, if you have a chook.

Got that word from Spikey.
 
WAB said:
bilby said:
It's been a long time since I saw a white hen's egg. They are all brown around here.

Eggs at the local supermarket are AU$6.30/doz here - that's about US$4 (US$3.64 if we adopt the US convention of quoting prices before sales tax).

Although since cyclone Alfred, the shelves are bare - so you can't get eggs at any price right now.
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Sure you can, if you have a chook.

Got that word from Spikey.
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If you have a chook, you can get eggs for chickenfeed.
 
bilby said:
WAB said:
bilby said:
It's been a long time since I saw a white hen's egg. They are all brown around here.

Eggs at the local supermarket are AU$6.30/doz here - that's about US$4 (US$3.64 if we adopt the US convention of quoting prices before sales tax).

Although since cyclone Alfred, the shelves are bare - so you can't get eggs at any price right now.
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Sure you can, if you have a chook.

Got that word from Spikey.
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If you have a chook, you can get eggs for chickenfeed.
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You can get eggs for scraps! Any scraps are good for chickens, including chicken scraps. Apparently their own shells etc encourage better shells.

Reminds me - must see if anyone at school is selling eggs!

We can’t have chickens - Stripe would sheared them by chasing them!
 
White hen's egg...I sense a grammar problem. Do you mean the egg from a white hen, or an egg from any hen that is white in color? This is important. This means something!



:rimshot:
 
WAB said:
White hen's egg...I sense a grammar problem. Do you mean the egg from a white hen, or an egg from any hen that is white in color? This is important. This means something!



:rimshot:
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Yeah, I mean an egg from any hen that is brown in colour.

Typically though, laying hens have brown feathers and broilers have white feathers, at least in this part of the world.

Though there's a fair bit of variation amongst layers, hens raised for their meat are almost always white. Presumably because that's a breed that puts on a lot of muscle very rapidly.
 
Pretty sure the white commercial meat birds are Leghorns. The Brown egg birds are definitely Isa Browns, which came into their own when everybody decided brown eggs are healthier. ( not true, makes no difference)

I was once given a hen and rooster who had the most beautiful, pearly, soft plumage. They were both REALLY heavy and would have made great meat birds. No use to me, I would only kill for meat if I was in real financial trouble. ( I have been in that situation, with a teenager to feed, but I didn't like it.) I never found out what the breed was like for laying because they were both sick (thanks, friend) and pretty much infected my whole flock with a disease I wasn't familiar with..

Still wish I knew what breed they were.
 
spikepipsqueak said:
Pretty sure the white commercial meat birds are Leghorns. The Brown egg birds are definitely Isa Browns, which came into their own when everybody decided brown eggs are healthier. ( not true, makes no difference)
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I find brown eggs shells are a little more brittle and fall into the food a little more than the whites.
 
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