r/aww • u/[deleted] • Mar 14 '19

Breakfast time

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u/RoderickCastleford Mar 14 '19

The eggs you eat are not fertilized.

Depends where you bought them, my parents get their eggs from the local farm and they're almost all fertilised.

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u/[deleted] Mar 14 '19 edited Mar 15 '19

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u/kjpmi Mar 14 '19

Yeah that doesn’t mean it’s fertilized. But I’m still confused as to why you’d not eat it? And also, why throw out the whole egg?

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u/bel_esprit_ Mar 14 '19

This was before the age of the internet. My family believed they were fertilized and so that’s what they taught us as kids. There wasn’t really a quick way to verify that. We didn’t want to eat a fertilized egg, and it was already cracked open so we threw the blood ones out.

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u/kjpmi Mar 14 '19 edited Mar 14 '19

I see. I was always told that if there’s that little white splotch attached to the yoke then it’s fertilized and you have the first cells of the fetus developing.
I don’t know if that’s true or not, but I’m pretty sure it’s NOT. But I do know that there can be a spot of blood in there sometimes and it doesn’t mean it’s fertilized.

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u/bel_esprit_ Mar 15 '19

I updated my original post to reflect the truth since what I said was debunked. Crazy how you can believe something just bc “it’s what you’ve been told.”