Egg rejection!

glenniedragon · Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:23 am

My in-laws were down recently and I normally pack a box of my produce (eggs, baking, wine etc) for them to take back with them to Hemel Hempstead. OH's young cousin was staying with them the following week and she refused point-blank to eat any of my eggs because 'they were the wrong colour in the middle' that is to say, the right colour yolk! not like her usual supermarket battery produced pallid example. MIL tried to convince her that they were OK, but not a bit passed her lips!

oh well
Kind thoughts
Deb

wulf · Post: # 15675Post **wulf** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:31 am

That's sad! I wonder if she's one of those kids who wouldn't know a cabbage from a cauliflower? Here's hoping that she wises up before getting too much older!

Wulf

glenniedragon · Mon Mar 27, 2006 9:43 am

Unfortunately so, she's 7 now and still thinks milk comes from 'the shop' and she 'doesn't like animals'. I think I'll offer to let her stay during the summer holidays......she'll either hate it or go back a convert!

kind thoughts
Deb

Millymollymandy · Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:43 am

Well I don't want to eat shop bought ones any more cos THEY aren't the right colour in the middle!!!

hedgewizard · Mon Mar 27, 2006 10:54 am

If it makes you feel any better, she'll probably fit into society better than any of us here do.

Yuppers, I've got neighbours who won't eat wild mushrooms because they're not shrink-wrapped, friends who won't eat slightly scabby apples because they "might have worms in" and family who react to local freshly-butchered meat with suspicion because we have to pack it ourselves. "How do you know it's clean?" saith my mum!

glenniedragon · Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:22 pm

I'm glad I don't fit well into that society!

kind thoughts
Deb

Goodlife1970 · Mon Mar 27, 2006 6:34 pm

I have difficulty getting my kids to eat anything that ISNT grown in my garden! Shop beans were rejected politely but firmly from Rosie when offered (for free mind!) by the greengrocer! The girls are very proud of their mummys efforts at SS (little Ben will just wolf down anything) and regard with suspicion shop bread,jam and anything in a tin! I think it starts when they are first weaned,we did what I suspect most mums on the forum did,and minced up whatever we had for dinner ect,later on they would say "nice,cabbage,beans,whatever,because they were used to eating proper food,the picking it themselves out of the garden made it all the more appealing. I feel so sorry for these children that dont know real food,its going to be so hard on them should they ever hit hard times and have to fend for themselves.

ina · Post: # 15759Post **ina** » Mon Mar 27, 2006 7:40 pm

Quite agree - I think it's so wrong to cook extra for the kids - the parents might be eating proper veg, but the kids get tinned stuff... I've had adults, too, who didn't like my rice pudding "because it wasn't like real rice pudding out of a tin". Sad.

Millymollymandy · Tue Mar 28, 2006 11:17 am

Ah, but that's because you can't beat Ambrosia Creamed Rice!

Sorry but it wins hands down. I eat it cold out of the tin!!!

Muddypause · Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:15 pm

Millymollymandy wrote:I eat it cold out of the tin!!!

YMYA!

Ditto their semolina and tapioca. Frogspawn never tasted so good.

ina · Post: # 15802Post **ina** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:28 pm

That's just what I mean. If even adults prefer the tinny muck, how can you expect kids to prefer real food? I wasn't brought up with tinned food - actually, I don't think tinned rice pud etc was around, or is around, in Germany. Ergo, I prefer home-cooked.

hedgewizard · Tue Mar 28, 2006 2:13 pm

They're two different things. I love my home-made with a good trist of nutmeg and a curl of lemon peel... but I love the sweet creamy chemical goodness that is Ambrosia. I also eat it out of the tin when I think no-one's watching. In fact... *sneaks off to kitchen*

nick · Post: # 15872Post **nick** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:16 am

I guess kids (and adults) see a degree of novelty in a packet or tin of something. My kids like home made yogurt (easiyo) but offer them a Bob the builder packaged yogurt from the shops (only at Grandmas house) it gets eaten twice as fast.
People have complained that they had to give their eggs to the dog because the white was sticking to the yolk. They may be educated yet.

hedgewizard · Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:47 pm

nick wrote: People have complained that they had to give their eggs to the dog because the white was sticking to the yolk.

nick · Post: # 15941Post **nick** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 2:49 am

ie. fresh eggs, when broken onto a plate (or anything else including the floor if you have a two year old) have the yolk with most of the white in one piece. In comparison, not so fresh eggs have runny whites.

when cooking pavlovas, you use the freshest eggs possible
when cooking cakes, wait about three days for the white to be more 'relaxed' for a better texture cake.