On Mon, 09 Jan 2006 15:29:28 GMT, "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. The cats get the
>meat after the stock is strained). I started snooping around on Google and
>came across several sites. Some of the sights were from animal activist
>groups ;( I found one site which was interesting. If you are really
>squemish, do not click the HERE link within the article. It is a graphic
>pic of the unborn yolks. There is also a recipe on the page.
>
>http://www.soupsong.com/sharris.html
>
>Michael


Whenever my mother ordered a soup chicken from the kosher butcher or
she picked a live chicken to have prepared, she would always ask him
to include the unborn eggs. We kids would fight over them in the soup
& my mom would count them out for us so there were no fights.

The chicken feet went into the soup too, after being singed over the
gas burner. Now THAT really stunk up the place, but it still smelled
better than the live chicken store. Feh. I used to beg to wait out on
the sidewalk.

There was still a similar live chicken store in Little Italy in
Manhattan at least through the 70s, though I do not recall it being
kosher. In fact, I think the sign was in Spanish.

Boron