EGGscruciating!..................
Also interesting.
Thx.
My mother grew up in the depression, and she was lucky enough to have an uncle who had a farm, and they got food from them gratis when times were tough.
One of those generous foodstuffs was...Turkey eggs.
Throughout her life, when the subject came up, her face would screw up in disgust at the taste and smell of cooking Turkey eggs.
I have never had any, but she did, and to her, even the thought of eating one was enough to make her blanch...so I doubt they taste the same.
But they probably taste better than bugs!
I eat turkey eggs... they are delicious and stay fresh a lot longer.
They also don’t poop in the nest like. chickens occasionally do, so the eggs are really clean.
“wild turkey...”
That stuff will make you think you can jump off a 10 story building. 😁
How much selective breeding did it take to get chickens to lay eggs all year instead of just breeding season like most birds? Or did their ancestors came from the tropics so season doesn’t matter as much.
How about rabbit eggs? They are plentiful and can be used for turkey stuffing.
We used to eat them on the farm growing up. They have a richer taste and I did not like them as much as chicken eggs.
They ARE a Noble Bird, but I’m glad we went with the Bald Eagle as our National Symbol. :)
Chickens are Gods most useful creature, IMHO.
Snake eggs? Platypus eggs? Turtle eggs? Duck eggs? Penguin eggs? Ostrich eggs? No market for them, either.
But people will pay top dollar for fish eggs! Blech.
I don’t want something that tastes similar, I want something that tastes exactly like an egg.
https://www.si.edu/stories/domestic-turkeys-and-their-wild-ancestors
Found an ostrich egg along the roadside on one of my morning runs years ago. The egg was big. Took it home and left it sit. Don’t know ho thick the shell is, but from its weight, one would probably need a blacksmith’s hammer to get into it.