I got a whole box of Lucky Charms that was nothing but marshmallow pieces.
Well, not really - I just made that up… but I could sense you all getting jealous you sugar freaks!
I got a whole box of Lucky Charms that was nothing but marshmallow pieces.
Well, not really - I just made that up… but I could sense you all getting jealous you sugar freaks!
I got a bag of rice that was infested with bugs. Not all that uncommon, though, from what I hear.
Remember back in 1990 when Coke had those special cans in which you “won” a dollar bill that popped up out of the can?
We got one of those “special” cans out of the hotel vending machine on our wedding night. We were watching a PPV movie, and my new hubby took our last chunk of spare change to get us a couple of sodas. (Yes we were broke. It was a cheap wedding and a weekend honeymoon.) So we were drinking them in the dark and mine tasted funny. We flipped on the lights and found that we had “won” a soggy dollar bill whose little pop-up thingy had gotten stuck inside the can, which was filled with (I hope) water. Great – except we had really only “won” 35 cents, and we were now out a soda for the night because the machine didn’t take bills.
I usually love Coke, but that pissed me off.
Like chicken!
Not exactly. As is seen on this website, the yolk is no doubt the main food source, but the albumen is certainly not the embryo. It’s actually the alternative food source cum shock absorber.
Regarding the OP, I’ve led a sheltered life. No excitement thataways.
Sorry, skep, but you’re wrong. The yolk is the (usually unfertilized) ovum, the albumen is the food supply for the developing chick. So said the text for my poultry production class, anyway.
There was that cheese block I cut open at the pizza restaurant that had somehow grown a used band-aid inside it.
skep, typically each yolk sac has a little red dot on its periphery. That is the nascent embryo. A triple yolk egg could easily result in three (not very viable) chicks.
It wasn’t half opened?
We used to do this all the time in third grade (we also used to stick pencils in old Sunny Delight tops and roll them on the floor, but that’s another post).
All you had to do was be REALLY REALLY careful and open the can really slowly and drink the juice out of the can. While the tab wasn’t popped, you could still drink out of it.
Ah, third grade… misbehavior, throwing punches, sticking pencils in Sunny D tops, and sticking chalk in teachers’ erasers…
I once had a creamless Twinkie. It was regular size and everything, but when i bit into it, nothing. I didn’t really notice till my second bite.
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Hey, CrazyCatLady, I did a little research on the egg thing (starting at www.howstuffworks.com), and it turns out that we were both wrong, although I was more wrong than you were.
Basically, the part that turns into the chick is called the germinal disc. It’s not the yolk, but it is attached to the yolk. The yolk provides food for the developing embryo, and the albumen (white) cushions the yolk and embryo. (One of the sites below says the albumen also provides food for the developing chick.)
Since every yolk in a fertilized egg has a germinal disc attached to it, double-yolked eggs do indeed have two embryos. However, those eggs don’t generally hatch, as the egg cannot support two embryos. The same is true, I assume, of three-egged yolks.
Well, I certainly learned a lot about chickens and eggs this morning. I’m almost an eggs-pert. Hey, the lowest form of humor is still humor, right? … Right? (Crickets chirping.)
Page linked to from howstuffworks.com
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Good grief! I know I’m new around here and hence not God-like, but sheesh! I said the same thing just above CrazyCatLady’s post! I even put in links!!
sniffs sadly and goes off into the corner to lick her wounds
Wow, aasna, I have no idea how I missed your post. I totally didn’t even see it.
I promise if you come out of your corner I will try very hard not to do that again.
FWIW,
I worked in my younger days on a battery hen farm. Gathering, grading the eggs. The hens had an 18 month laying lifetime- they would come in a few weeks old, begin laying a couple of weeks after that. Early on in the lifecycle the likelihood of multiyoked eggs was much higher than later; I remember this as they were great for lunchtime omelettes.
Battery farming is sick sick sick though.
:: Scarlett’s brain explodes as she tries to figure out how that would work ::
Which pretty much sums up how I think it would eventually work.