Michael "Dog3" Lonergan wrote:
> I was chatting with Margaret on the telephone last evening. The
> conversation ranged on many topics but the one topic she brought up piqued
> my curiosity. She was telling me stories about her mother at the butcher
> shop and the meat etc., her mother would buy. Unborn eggs were mentioned.
> Now I have never seen an unborn egg. As Margaret pointed out, the chickens
> today are completely cleaned of internal organs with the exception of the
> giblet packet (which I use in stuffing and for stock.


My parent's generation often got chickens which contained the egg organs
with the eggs before the shell was formed. I can recall the yolks being
boiled and added to stuffing. No big deal.

I get more squicked out at the memory of the many pinfeathers left in
the skin which had to be plucked after being dipped in boiling water.
Ick. I can still remember the smell, 50 years later.

gloria p