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Sheldon Sheldon is offline
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Default Talking about eggs....

On Dec 29, 9:44�am, Clay Irving > wrote:
> ...talking about eggs, I saw something for the first time today. I've had
> them in soup before, but I never saw them in the market. This morning, I
> was taking pictures in market in Thailand and saw "reng khai", literally
> translated as "nest eggs", but they're really unborn eggs harvested from
> a hen when it is butchered.
>
> http://www.panix.com/~clay/cookbook/.../reng-khai.jpg


Nothing new... can't make genuine Jewish penecillin without it.
And they're not unborn eggs, they're incompletely formed eggs... and
most commercially raised hens never meet a cock, so they are
unfertilized eggs, they'd never be "born".

http://www.aeb.org/LearnMore/Eggcycl....htm#Formation