"Petey the Wonder Dog" > wrote in message
...
> Far as I can tell, someone wrote:
> >Are 'Eggbeaters' as dangerous as real eggs,
>
> Dangerous? In my lifetime of 52 years, I guess I've eaten on average 4
> eggs per week. This does not include baked goods.
>
> My gran, from England, made them "soft-boiled" for us as kids. Runny
> yoke. I cook them for myself "sunny side up". Runny yoke. That's how
> I like 'em.
>
> 4eggs x 52weeks x 52 years = 10,800+ eggs.
>
> I've never gotten sick one time from them.
>
> So how are they dangerous?
>
> Perhaps you should try cooking them?
>
> According to the National Library of Medicine, there are about 20 deaths
> each year in the US from salmonella.
>
> According to Carl A Mealie, MD, Medical Director of Emergency Care
> Institute,, Chief of Clinical Operations, Department of Emergency
> Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, Assistant Professor,
> Department of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine,
> there are almost 100 deaths per year attributed to wasp stings.
>
> Stay indoors and eat eggs. You'll live longer.

I never thought about "how many eggs have I eaten?" but it's a big number.
I have a breakfast egg, of course, and omelettes, devilled eggs, scramblers,
mayonnaise, (lethal raw eggs there), say a dozen a week. 600 or so a year.
Lotta eggs. I've never thought about them being dangerous, either from the
cholesterol or the bacteria point of view. I was brought up to believe that
eggs are good for you and in fact one of the first cookery books we bought
after we got married, forty years ago, is called "cooking with eggs" and
starts off by saying "We all know that eggs are good for us" Strange the
things people are afraid of, snakes, alligators, eggs, when the really big
killers, at least in the US, are things like tobacco use, (and other drugs
of course), obesity, road accidents. Egg Beaters, however, are probably bad
for your psyche.