Sometimes, it's hard to suspend belief...

[wendy-lebaron]

the increasing attempt to "ex-you-analyze" everything. has turned me almost away from local television. badly-dressed women needing to work, no i don't really care.

sadly it has never changed over 40 years at least. for one local channel. the only thing that really changed was the show's name. i'm surrounded by people. who only beg for controversy and political strife. which are never my favorite topics.

i was accused last year of being someone i'm not. i expected it from someone on the street. enough said. this and many other things. would have made me quite incredulous for the rest of my life.

 

[MikeRocor]

It's also a 'mostly-American' thing, as many parts of the globe do not refrigerate their eggs.

I've been told that, if you don't was the eggs, they don't need to be refrigerated. I'll take mine washed anyway, thanks, and I'll keep them in the fridge.

Having raised chickens back in the day, I can vouch for that!

My parents and I raised a dozen chickens once. My brother, bless his heart, bought his wife a dozen cure little yellow peeps for mothers' day one year - not sure what (or if) he was thinking. He bought them a bit ahead of time and by the time he gave them to her, they were in that not-so-cute in between stage. His wife would have nothing to do with them, so they lived their fairly brief lives at my parents' place, where I was still living at the time. Becoming familiar with chickens "on-the-hoof" nearly cured me of ever wanting to eat chicken again. Nasty disgusting creatures! We did, in fact, end up eating them. None of them ever got to an egg laying career, but I've occasionally helped friends tend their egg layers and just "no" - eggs can be washed and refrigerated.

I once bought unduly many eggs when they were on sale and experimented a little: They freeze (and thaw) ok, though I found they keep well enough in the fridge that freezing isn't really necessary - I didn't buy -that- many! Freezing does give the yolks a funky texture - not so liquid any more - but they taste the same.

As an aside regarding the dozen chickens: as soon as we kept chicken feed in our shed, we got rats. Nice big healthy rats, but still rats. As soon as the chickens (and the chicken feed) were gone, the rats were gone. Rats apparently don't like dog food, because we've kept that in the same shed for decades and never had a rat problem other than with the chicken feed.