My mom relayed a story about my dad. He was on the Bay Bridge and his car was hit by another car, and their bumpers locked, so his car ended up being swung all over the roadway. He had flopped down in the seat when the collision occurred (this would have been in the early 50’s, so forget about any kind of safety equipment). He told her that the only thought in his mind was whether he had clean underwear on, since his mother had always told him to wear clean underwear in case he was in an accident and taken to the hospital. It would be a disgrace to the family if the doctors found he wasn’t wearing clean underwear.
Yeah, grandma’s lye soap sure irritated the heck out of my skin, and caused inflammation and discharge all on its own, without anything being infected.
Do you remember grandma’s lye soap? Good for everything in the home,
And the secret was in the scrubbing, It wouldn’t suds and couldn’t foam.
Uncle Herman and cousin Thurman had an aversion to washing their ears
Grandma scrubbed them with her lye soap. And they haven’t heard a word in years.
Oh. The lye soap. That was bad juju.
I confess I probably would have liked it. Probably died from it, but my floor would have been spotless.
I thought about making some one time and looked into it. It seems fraught with danger from burns and explosions. As I had small children I decided against it.
Have you ever been to a laying house? A big commercial one?
Trust me. They are quite nasty. Smelly, disgusting places. You can smell a chicken farm from about 5 miles away.
No company is gonna send eggs to a grocery chain without washing. No one would go near the egg section at the store. Much less buy.
You can raise chickens yourself. Put the coop downwind from your house. You won’t like it if you don’t.
And I promise you will wash those eggs. Who wants the kitchen smelling like chicken poop and litter?
Not me.
Seriously I wanna know this. Maybe I can revolutionize the egg industry in Arkansas.
(If it’s free range, ummm, They stink too. And there’s lots of mud and chicken shit, everywhere. No pastural scenes of chickens frolicking in the grass amongst daisies)
In the whole of Europe, it is illegal to wash eggs for commercial sale. The eggs I buy here in the UK occasionally have a little feather stuck to them. I can’t remember the last time I had one (from a supermarket) that had visible dirt or poop on it. They don’t smell and they are generally considered safe to eat raw. It’s a solved problem.
side note… I have worked from home since the whole covid thing. I go to the grocery store and stuff. My Wife still goes to work. And we go out to eat and stuff and do the things that you have to do. Or anything I want to do. I just don’t work in an office other than my own, at home.
BUT… I haven’t had your regular seasonal cold in the last 3 years. The people at work that go into work and especially that have kids are sick all the time.
I understand that my immune system defense is not being bolstered by not getting sick. But it has been nice.
And I’ve bought eggs in Germany, where they are also unwashed. The egg section smells like the rest of the supermarket. Like a/c. The eggs look fine. They smell fine.
I’ve kept chickens for more than 30 years. My coop doesn’t stink. I clean it every morning. I do not wash my eggs. They do not smell. You are imagining what isn’t true.
In Europe, the commercial eggs are not washed, nor refrigerated. They do not smell.
In the USA, industrial egg factories are hideous mass torture chambers. The smell is the least of it.
Sure, although not as bad as pigs. Pigs are the worst except for humans. But neither eggs nor chickens have poop on them, normally. They do not smell bad.
I’ve got a chicken with a bum leg rehabbing in a dog crate under my lamp table right now. If what you believe about chickens was true, she would have driven us all out of the house. But in fact, she poops and the shavings absorb it and dry it out and I change the bedding every couple days and she doesn’t stink at all.
However, I see that you are set on believing that chickens and eggs are filthy with excrement, so you go on with that.
I promise that chicken is stinking. A dang parakeet smells in a house.
You’re used to it. Hey, I’m the same. I’m sure a person not used to cat boxes can smell mine, no matter how many times we scoop and change litter.
I’m sure my dogs, no I know my dogs make offensive odors.
And, I agree with you on a pig sty. No covering that up.
ETA…I don’t wanna believe it. I know it. I have a chicken coop. I live in Chicken central. I’ve seen poop on eggs.
It’s my experience. Maybe my hens are extra poopy or something. They seem healthy. They eat enough. Their coop is cleaned regularly. The nest boxes are done every day or two. Poop just falls outta their butts. They poop in the nest. They poop on the eggs. They poop on you if you hang around long enough.
