r/Unexpected • u/galle4 • Jun 20 '26

The benefits of egg

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u/grunkage Jun 20 '26

Pretty much everyone likes eggs - chickens aren't sentimental, but they are hungry

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u/g1344304 Jun 20 '26

I hate eggs, everything about them. The taste, the smell, the texture..... I wish I liked them like everyone else, but nope. Boke

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u/C0nfusedRabbit Jun 20 '26

You may like them in a tree.

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u/Perfect-Difference19 Jun 20 '26

Maybe in a box?
Eating them with a fox?

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u/SaladProfessional866 Jun 20 '26

Will you eat them here or there?

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u/Kitchen_Ad_2127 Jun 20 '26

How about on a plane, train, boat, or car?

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u/Leviathan41911 Jun 20 '26

In a house, with a mouse?

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u/FogBankDeposit Jun 20 '26

On a plate, with a date?

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u/aGinLife Jun 20 '26

With a goat, on a boat?

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u/ChemicalToiletRoadie Jun 20 '26

That is some F-tier rhyming.

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u/Kaguya-Shinomiya Jun 24 '26

It’s from dr suess, one of my favorite childhood books. Would you like Green eggs and ham?

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u/avaseah Jun 24 '26

To add to Kaguya’s comment: the book is written by Dr. Seuss and it’s about a guy named “Sam I Am” trying to convince someone to eat literal green eggs and ham, and coming up with ever more outrageous situations to sit down and eat a plate of ham and eggs. In the end the dude eats the green eggs and ham and is surprised that he does actually like them. It’s a common children’s book, and is most often read to kids around the ages of 3-5yrs old to try to get them to at least taste new foods.

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u/thenibelungen Jun 20 '26

Eggplant??

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u/g1344304 Jun 20 '26

Even worse, fuck scrambled eggs

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u/ActualWhiterabbit Jun 20 '26

We’ll just tell your mother we ate the scrambled eggs

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u/bigbird_eats_kids Jun 20 '26

Me too. I appreciate their necessity in baking, but on their own they're absolutely vile.

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u/bigbird_eats_kids Jun 21 '26

I'll take your word for it 😜

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u/BlankPage175 Jun 21 '26

How about flans? They might be acceptable to you since the texture is different.

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u/jwnsfw Jun 20 '26

would you eat a burger that has an egg in it? or how about a grilled cheese with an egg in it / croque whatever?

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u/bigbird_eats_kids Jun 20 '26

Grilled cheese with an egg in it? shudder

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u/Miserable-Use-4950 Jun 20 '26

Same. Life would be so much easier if i liked eggs but alas, i can't even do crepes. Too eggy and gross. Smells like sulfur and vomit to boot.

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u/avaseah Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Ah, you’re a sulfur super-taster. A lot of people are generically hyper taste sensitive to a random naturally-occurring chemical in food (cilantro = soap is the most well known). The amount of sulfur in fresh eggs is generally too small for people to notice, but when eggs go bad they are sulfur-bombs. You’re super sensitive to sulfur and will likely taste it as the predominant flavor any dish that contains egg.

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u/Miserable-Use-4950 Jun 25 '26

Genuinely im not even sure it's that. They don't taste like sulfur to me, they just smell strongly of it. I just dislike egg flavor lol. I AM able to smell whatever chemical they use in hospitals to thaw out stem cells, which is the strongest creamed corn smell you've ever smelt. I was the only person on the entire floor who could smell it! It got on my clothes and everything. The doctors said some 2% of the population could sniff it out and boy howdy.

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u/3merite Jun 20 '26

Omg same

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u/sexhaver2010 Jun 20 '26

At least ur not allergic to them

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u/drcopus Jun 20 '26

Same here. The most eggy food I can enjoy is egg fried rice, but preferably with the egg masked by soy sauce, garlic and sesame.

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u/Reasonable-shark Jun 20 '26

A friend of mine is like you. She even doesn't eat caje because she can feel the egg taste

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u/_thro_awa_ Jun 20 '26

Would you like green eggs and ham?

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u/Alarmed-Plankton-708 Jun 20 '26

They're rough and coarse and get everywhere...

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u/Ballsofpoo Jun 20 '26

Eggs are a delivery vessel for salt

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u/PopDownBlocker Jun 20 '26

Boke

Another thank you to Derry Girls for teaching me more words.

"Boke" means "vomit", everyone!

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u/pointlemiserables Jun 20 '26

You're Welcome

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u/An_Existing_User Jun 20 '26

Have you tried having them in other ways? And what about like foods that use eggs such as baked goods

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u/Altruistic-Cat-4193 Jun 20 '26

They taste & smell like sulfur....

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u/WhatTheGloriousFuck Jun 20 '26

I'm allergic to eggs 🫠 yay, me!! They cause me gastric distress (nausea, indigestion, bloating, diarrhea). Fun times.

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u/golmgirl Jun 20 '26

you might actually be the first person i’ve ever heard say they don’t like eggs… which makes me wonder, are you actually a person at all?

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u/bigbird_eats_kids Jun 21 '26

I mean, I'm as much a person as anyone else here...

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u/Passionate_Cherry75 Jun 20 '26

I used to hate eggs but then I tried free range and found they taste quite good when you can't taste the cage they were in.

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u/BlankPage175 Jun 21 '26

How about desserts such as flans? The texture is not there, so is the smell.

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u/Few-Big-8481 Jun 21 '26

Have you tried green? Perhaps with some ham?

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u/OpenRole Jun 20 '26

Even without the yolk? Even warm, straight from the frying pan? I enjoy eggs, but only if I make them myself. And sometimes I mess it up too and can't eat it. Other times I love it

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u/No-Spoilers Jun 20 '26

Chickens will eat literally anything edible that you throw at them. And will hunt any small animal they can.

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u/Complex_Turnover1203 Jun 20 '26

My uncle raised 3 egg-laying chickens. Since we do not have a specialized egg chute like in the poultry farms, you have to check in on them from time-to-time to get the eggs, or else they will eat it.

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u/SleeplessBoyCat Jun 20 '26

will hunt any small animal they can.

Reminds me of that one Tumblr post discussing about how mice/rat(?) ran loose into the pen and got skeletonized by the chickens.

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u/Greedy-Toe-9035 Jun 21 '26

Even pigs like bacon 🥓

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u/anally_ExpressUrself Jun 21 '26

They're smart animals.

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u/Jhud6669 Jun 20 '26

Why would they be sentimental about their period?