# Who here has eaten the most species of egg? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 25, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702 "2008-03-25T19:02:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/21 "2008-04-15T02:31:11Z")
[QUOTE=The Controvert] If what you describe looks like a black hard-boiled egg, then would liken it to salty jello. Not bad. [/QUOTE] ::shudders:: I don’t think I’ll ever have room for salty-jello-tasting Chinese fermented duck eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/22 "2008-04-15T03:33:27Z")
[QUOTE=Cervaise] In addition to the usual (several bird, several fish), I’m going to take my red wings into account and say there’s a non-zero chance I have human on the list as well. 😛 [/QUOTE] I’ve got to ask. Did you suck the out flow of a woman’s vagina for well over a month or just during the menses, or did you do it the conventional way, yakitori human ovary? Inquiring minds on the SDMB want to know. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 9:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/23 "2008-04-15T09:59:21Z")
[QUOTE=MrDibble] Chicken duck quail guinea fowl fish(sturgeon, snoek, mackerel, other nameless ones (whole egg sac)) lobster sea urchin ostrich (OK, not a whole one - 1-egg omelette, split 3 ways) crocodile [/QUOTE] You must tell us how crocodile eggs are. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/24 "2008-04-15T10:32:38Z")
Chicken Quail Duck Salmon Cod Pollack Herring Shrimp Crab Lobster Cow (well, ovaries. I assume there was an egg in there somewhere) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 10:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/25 "2008-04-15T10:57:41Z")
Seems like lobster is not an uncommon entry in the list - to those of you that mentioned it - in what form did you eat the eggs? I ask, because the crayfish eggs I ate experimentally were just clustered under the tail of one of the crayfish I caught and cooked. (They tasted like little leathery bubbles of wet nothing). ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/26 "2008-04-15T12:42:41Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Seems like lobster is not an uncommon entry in the list - to those of you that mentioned it - in what form did you eat the eggs? I ask, because the crayfish eggs I ate experimentally were just clustered under the tail of one of the crayfish I caught and cooked. (They tasted like little leathery bubbles of wet nothing). [/QUOTE] That’s how I ate my lobster eggs (shrimp and crab, as well). I probably wouldn’t have chosen to eat them by themselves, but there they were so they got et. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/27 "2008-04-15T12:51:05Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] Seems like lobster is not an uncommon entry in the list - to those of you that mentioned it - in what form did you eat the eggs? I ask, because the crayfish eggs I ate experimentally were just clustered under the tail of one of the crayfish I caught and cooked. (They tasted like little leathery bubbles of wet nothing). [/QUOTE] Yep -lobster “in berry” as they are known. [QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] Call me provincial, or something, but where are you all getting goose and duck eggs to eat? [/QUOTE] Farmer’s Market. [QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] MrDibble, where’d you eat a crocodile egg? [/QUOTE] Right next to the place I got the ostrich egg - a crocodile farm (I do live in Africa) [QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] How was it prepared? [/QUOTE] Scrambled [QUOTE=Ellen Cherry] WHY did you eat such a thing? [/QUOTE] It was on the menu, it was brunch time and I didn’t feel like crocodile steak. They tasted pretty much like chicken eggs, only a little richer. Actually, more like duck eggs, come to think of it. ---
**Author:** ![Snickers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Snickers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snickers)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/28 "2008-04-15T13:12:06Z")
[QUOTE=Dead Badger] …I did poach some fantastic eggs this morning, though. The clingfilm method rules, although it does feel faintly like cheating… [/QUOTE] Off topic, sorry, but what is this clingfilm method of which you speak? ---
**Author:** ![Dead\_Badger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/848f3c/32.png) [@Dead\_Badger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dead_Badger)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/29 "2008-04-15T13:49:30Z")
It’s the third method demonstrated by the frankly unlikely culinary experts at [b3ta.com](http://www.b3ta.com/features/howtopoachanegg/). As I say, it feels like cheating, but you can’t argue that they look pretty damn good. Don’t need the eggs to be as fresh, either. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2008, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/30 "2008-04-15T15:50:20Z")
[QUOTE=Darryl Lict] Did you suck the out flow of a woman’s vagina for well over a month or just during the menses, or did you do it the conventional way, yakitori human ovary? [/QUOTE] Two words: dipped Pocky. ---
**Author:** ![JThunder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e95f7d/32.png) [@JThunder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JThunder)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/31 "2008-04-16T00:08:20Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] I think the all-time record is held by one Peter T. Hooper, but I don’t think he’s a member here. [/QUOTE] Heh. I was wondering if anyone would make that connection as well. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/32 "2008-04-16T07:49:47Z")
I can eat fifty eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2008, 7:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702/33 "2008-04-16T07:58:31Z")
[QUOTE=Mangetout] I can eat fifty eggs. [/QUOTE] So can I, if they’re the right kind. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-eaten-the-most-species-of-egg/442702.md?page=1)