It’s National Egg Day, which was a folksy, honorary “holiday”, but now that eggs have become one of our most precious, valuable commodities, maybe it should be a federal holiday where we all get the day off!
Here’s some egg-related fun from our friends at, the internet.
1. A poll asked, “When you buy eggs, do you generally buy white or brown eggs?” 67% of people said white eggs, 20% said brown. (And everyone else said they’ll take whatever they can without taking out a second mortgage.)
2. A poll asked, “How do you prefer your eggs cooked?” 46% of people said scrambled, 25% said fried, 7% said hard-boiled, 6% said poached, 4% said soft-boiled. (And everyone else said they’ll take whatever they can get without taking out a second mortgage.)
3. A poll asked, “How do you usually crack an egg?” 57% of people said they crack eggs “on the edge of a bowl or pan.” 23% said “on a flat countertop.” And 10% said “some other way.” (Like on their kids’ foreheads?)
4. A poll asked, “Which came first: the chicken or the egg?” 44% of people said the chicken, 32% said the egg, and 24% are not sure.
(The correct answer is the egg, which beat chickens by a couple hundred MILLION years. Unless you’re talking specifically about a chicken egg, and then it’s murkier.)
(Chickens likely evolved from a subspecies of red jungle fowl many thousands of years ago. And at some point around domestication, the last ancestor of modern chickens would’ve laid an egg containing an embryo with enough genetic differences to be distinct.)
(Personally, I like the Beastie Boys’ explanation: “Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I egged the chicken. And then I ate his leg.”) (???)
5. This is a dark: Did you know that a good egg substitute in baking is BLOOD. (???) Eggs and blood have similar protein compositions, particularly with the “albumin” that gives both their coagulant properties.
So yeah, if egg prices start surging again, hit up a reputable butcher. The conversion is: One egg equals 65 grams of animal blood, or roughly four tablespoons. (Or, applesauce also works.)
