Specks in eggs

I've never seen it in eggs in the US! I examine most of my food pretty thoroughly (I know I sound like a freak) and I've never seen them before I moved here.

That reminds me...in one of my college labs we had to crack open a fertilized egg. It had veins running through it and a little beating heart. We had to watch the heart under a microscope. It was gross and sad and I couldn't eat eggs for months!

I don't care if it's natural. I'm not eating eggs with specks of blood in them. *shudders*

The eggs we buy usually are free range organic from the farmers market, so I reckon there are going to be more speckly ones.

That's okay Michelle we stil like you even if you chuck out the eggs with red bits... 

I noticed the red specks when I was over there. Nearly every egg I used had that in it. I picked every one of them out! I've never seen that here. Randy English chickens 

OK, now I a, going to pay more attention.  I've seen the bits before, but didn't really get phased by them.  But at least most people are saying it's OK.

I've seen them in American eggs.

I've seen them in american eggs---my old boss used to call them the belly buttons!

Somebody was mentioning the white thing next to the yolk and said it's the umbillical cord!!!  I was pretty grossed out.  I stopped eating eggs for a while when the whole bird flu  thing came up (call me crazy). 

This all grosses me out, but I'm pregnant and a vegetarian (for the same whole grossout meat industry factor - too much reading on the subject in in the 8th grade!), so I need some sort of protein!

I think I'll just keep taking out the gross part of the eggs and eating them anyway until the end of pregnancy and breastfeeding.  Hopefully the grossout factor doesn't do me in!

Yes, the red speck indicates that the egg was fertilized.  I never saw one here in the US until I got eggs from a farmers market.  And now that I get organinc eggs, I see them every so often.  I always thought that I never saw them in the regular eggs because the chicken lays the eggs on a little convyor belt that wisks them off before they ever even see a roster.  I figure the occasional red blob it the price I pay for knowing that the chicken who gave me this egg got to get up and streatch her leggs, and maybe even flirt with the rooster.   

I eat eggs with the specks in them all the time.  We buy free range eggs & I was under the impression that the specky ones could be fertilized eggs.

me too...

Somebody was mentioning the white thing next to the yolk and said it's the umbillical cord!!!  I was pretty grossed out. 

Yup, that would be me!  I still eat eggs, but not often.  Mostly for baking. 

I figure the occasional red blob it the price I pay for knowing that the chicken who gave me this egg got to get up and streatch her leggs, and maybe even flirt with the rooster.   

  right, me too. now what grosses me out are the little bits of feathers still stuck on the shells... although I just suck it up and crack it instead of washing it first.

in my africa days, i had a couple embryos... now that's gross, so I am all about cracking each one in a small bowl first!

in my africa days, i had a couple embryos... now that's gross, so I am all about cracking each one in a small bowl first!

I had one in Burma that made us gag. I mean really gag. It was so bad that it hung about for ages. This was all black and runny.  After that, it is always into a seperate dish first.

This was all black and runny. 

oh well, that's a whole other story! I had loads of those! I always tell people you will KNOW when your egg is bad!! its reeks too!

oh well, that's a whole other story! I had loads of those! I always tell people you will KNOW when your egg is bad!! its reeks too!

I am glad I only had one...I can still 'taste' that smell...