primitives discuss dining on eggs

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/115714004

Oh my.

For those who want a little R&R from the boring event taking place down in North Carolina, I went to the cooking and baking forum to bring back some light amusement.

Tab (8,782 posts)

How would you introduce a person who hates eggs to eating eggs?

I hate eggs. I can tolerate some hardboiled eggs, but that's it. The smell, particularly, and the taste texture have been a turnoff. This may be a result of exposure to poorly cooked eggs growing up.

I did used to cook a fair variety when working in restaurants, but that was a while ago, but personally didn't care for them.

I suspect that with fresh eggs and proper flavoring/seasoning and the right cooking style I might like one. But I'm so indoctrinated into not having them.

Knowing all that, if you were going to suggest an egg dish - poached, scrambled, omelet, etc. - what would you suggest that might be a "really good experience" that might get me to like them, or at least that particular dish?

after which a stupid picture of eggs

grasswire (34,849 posts)

1. cream cheese and strawberry jam omelet?

That's pretty tasty.

WTF?

A strawberry jam omelet?

It sounds about as appealing as pancakes with vinegar instead of syrup poured on them.

Some foods just don't go well together.

Warpy (64,509 posts)

2. I, too, got turned off to them when I was a kid living with a bad cook. The only way I can get them down is in egg foo yung, heavy on the onions and gravy.

Were I to start cooking them for myself, I'd probably do omelets stuffed with all sorts of goodies or scrambled eggs, again studded with all sorts of goodies.

By themselves, though? No way, Jose.

^^the defrocked warped primitive, who's as mean and ugly as a rattlesnake.

<<still considering she with the face like Hindenburg's for promotion in the Top DUmmies of 2012.

Phentex (6,864 posts)

3. I second the omelets...

because that's what I was going to say.

These days I make egg white omelets with lots of stuff in them. Haven't really noticed an egg smell with these.

Warpy (64,509 posts)

4. All the sulfur compounds are in the yolk

My aversion is so strong I can't even get custard past my nose.

blaze (2,252 posts)

5. Hope you find a way you like them!

There isn't a single way I don't like them!!

My favorite intro to them (as I can recall) was scrambled... and years later I discovered they were scrambled with a boatload of butter. Not sure they're my fav today, but I always remember Mrs. Kelly's scrambled eggs were the best ever!!

I had a scrambled egg/chorizo burrito today. That wasn't too shabby.

[I_B_Perky]

Tab (8,782 posts)

How would you introduce a person who hates eggs to eating eggs?

I hate eggs. I can tolerate some hardboiled eggs, but that's it. The smell, particularly, and the taste texture have been a turnoff. This may be a result of exposure to poorly cooked eggs growing up.

I did used to cook a fair variety when working in restaurants, but that was a while ago, but personally didn't care for them.

I suspect that with fresh eggs and proper flavoring/seasoning and the right cooking style I might like one. But I'm so indoctrinated into not having them.

Knowing all that, if you were going to suggest an egg dish - poached, scrambled, omelet, etc. - what would you suggest that might be a "really good experience" that might get me to like them, or at least that particular dish?

Let me guess... you haven't had a job since.   

[franksolich]

Let me guess... you haven't had a job since.   

I think it's the Diet Cola primitive--but am only 99% sure, not 100% sure--who was for many years a chef at a greasy spoon up over in New England, but had to quit and jump aboard the social security disability gravy train, a first-class ticket paid for by the taxpayers, because he hit the sauce too much.

And I'm not talking about food sauce here.

I think that's him.

[IassaFTots]

I love eggs.  I have a buddy that lives on a farm, and they give me fresh eggs.  It took a while to get used to them, they are a bit stronger than the ones you get at a store. 

[GOBUCKS]

This may be a result of exposure to poorly cooked eggs growing up.

What is a poorly cooked egg?

Short of burning them down to carbon, anything you do to an egg is proper for one egg dish or another.

[Big Dog]

[franksolich]

Well now, Big Dog, sir, that's what I'd call a good breakfast, excepting I'd have the egg scrambled, so as to dilute the yuckiness of the egg whites with the sheer goodness of the egg yolk.

<<yolk man.

The amount of bacon might seem overmuch, but I bet I could eat that much with no ill effects.

<<has body apparently resistant to cholesterol, or so it seems.

[Big Dog]

frank,

Eggs to order!


I like this breakfast better.

[Duke Nukum]

What about eggs as French Toast? DUmmies are always going on toast and eggs, one would think they are French toast addicts.

[BigTex]

What about eggs as French Toast? DUmmies are always going on toast and eggs, one would think they are French toast addicts.

Whats french toast? the only types of toast I eat are Texas toast and freedom toast.

[Duke Nukum]

Whats french toast? the only types of toast I eat are Texas toast and freedom toast.

Well, there is Amercanized French toast which is bread dipped in egg batter and fried on the griddle.

Then there is French French toast which I only ever had once in the Army, where I was stationed we would get rotating cooks from infantry units that would rotate through and man, that was some of the best French toast I've ever had. Kind of like a deep fried jelly sandwich. Oh man!

Anyway, because the French had one successful military campaign against Green Peace, I am willing to let them have French toast.

[DumbAss Tanker]

Tab (8,782 posts)

How would you introduce a person who hates eggs to eating eggs?

I hate eggs.

I'd say "Tab, meet eggs.  Eggs, meet Tab; he hates you, by the way."  Now Tab, STFU and get out of here, more eggs for me.

[obumazombie]

My Uncle used to call low lifes egg suckers. Applies to libs.

[JohnnyReb]

My Uncle used to call low lifes egg suckers. Applies to libs.

Johnny Cash and egg sucking dog....

[Celtic Rose]

My favorite egg dish is poached egg on toast, with very runny yolks    I actually don't like scrambled eggs, unless they are smothered with things like onions, cheese, and salsa. 

I'm not sure why a fully grown adult would be looking for methods to be "introduced" to a food he despises.  I've accepted the foods I don't like and I simply don't eat them.  One is unlikely to become nutritionally deficient by avoiding eggs after all. 

[Big Dog]

Tab (8,782 posts)

How would you introduce a person who hates eggs to eating eggs?

This is too easy.

[Big Dog]

I'd say "Tab, meet eggs.  Eggs, meet Tab; he hates you, by the way."  Now Tab, STFU and get out of here, more eggs for me.

 

[franksolich]

My favorite egg dish is poached egg on toast, with very runny yolks    I actually don't like scrambled eggs, unless they are smothered with things like onions, cheese, and salsa. 

I'm not sure why a fully grown adult would be looking for methods to be "introduced" to a food he despises.  I've accepted the foods I don't like and I simply don't eat them.  One is unlikely to become nutritionally deficient by avoiding eggs after all.

Okay, you know this stuff, given your profession.

I've heard that the yolk is the "most dangerous" part of an egg, and that the whites are fairly innocuous.

The problem being that the yolks have flavor, while the whites if taken alone have a tendency to encourage upchucking (the sensation as it slips down the throat is not a good one), at least to me.

There are days when I'll eat as many as four eggs in one setting; maybe about five or six such days a month.

I let my body, rather than my taste buds, dictate what I eat; I look at food as merely a fuel, like gasoline is to an automobile.  Years ago I got Demonic Underwear all upset about this attitude, but really, it's imperative that I look at food this way, given what happened to other members of my family who enjoyed food, liked fine cuisine.....and as a consequence ate far too much of it.

I'm assuming those days--and they are random--that I overindulge in eggs are those times the body's silently screaming for protein.  Does this sound reasonable?

The blood's checked every six months; for about twenty different things.  The blood cholesterol nearly all my adult life has ranged from the exact middle of the "healthy" range down to a little lower than that.  It's been consistent that way all my adult life, from about the age of twenty.

I point this out because I occasionally get preached at.

[Big Dog]

My favorite egg dish is poached egg on toast, with very runny yolks    I actually don't like scrambled eggs, unless they are smothered with things like onions, cheese, and salsa. 

Mmmmmmm.....   

The eggs sound pretty good, too.   

I'm not sure why a fully grown adult would be looking for methods to be "introduced" to a food he despises.  I've accepted the foods I don't like and I simply don't eat them.  One is unlikely to become nutritionally deficient by avoiding eggs after all. 

To you and me, it's simple. Eat an egg if you want to; don't eat an egg if you don't want to. It's the DUmmy mind that begs to be guided, cajoled, or forced by the hive. "I'm a helpless child, Tell me how to eat an egg. Tell me how to think. Tell me who to hate. Tell me how to vote."

[Skul]

I'd rather introduce them to some goose-eggs.
They wouldn't like those, either.

[Ballygrl]

Oh, I'm 1 of those people who can't eat egg whites, they're so gross, so if we go out for breakfast I get eggs over but just dip the toast in the yolk.

[Ballygrl]

I can't eat omelets or scrambled eggs.

[franksolich]

I think it's the Diet Cola primitive--but am only 99% sure, not 100% sure--who was for many years a chef at a greasy spoon up over in New England, but had to quit and jump aboard the social security disability gravy train, a first-class ticket paid for by the taxpayers, because he hit the sauce too much.

And I'm not talking about food sauce here.

I think that's him.

I looked it up.

Oh my, there's a lot of material here in the DUmpster.

It appears the Diet Cola primitive, the "Tab" primitive, in fact goes away from Skins's island periodically to undertake the Keeley cure once yet again.....

[Karin]

I can't eat omelets or scrambled eggs.

You can't?  One of my favorites is a mushroom omelet with cheese.  Side of bacon, toast;; I'm a happy happy camper.  I'm with you on the egg whites, though.  YUCK.  People that eat egg white omelets and crow, "oh but they're so healthy!!!  To that, I say who gives a shit? 

[Ralph Wiggum]