bury me in this dress

My first attempt at this got screwed up but I won’t take it as a sign from up above or whatever. Desperation keeps my morality at bay. So to start off my selling out, I added a ‘paypal donate’ button to the sidebar so starting today, you can make a donation to a worthy cause namely ME! Since I don’t think my regular rants would elicit donations, I thought of a gimmick so readers can get something in return. I’ve come up with a totally useless, totally boring gimmich which I dub “Totally Useless Information” wherein I will post about useless facts, history of boring stuff, how things work, curios, and whatever I can come up with. How creative is that? (You know I’m being sarcastic here, right?)

For today’s post, we will talk about the history of eggs. Or rather “When did man begin eating eggs?”

When people are lost somewhere, as in the jungle or on a lonely island, they will try to eat almost anything when they get hungry. In some such way primitive man, in his search for food, must have tried to eat the eggs of the birds. Exactly when this happened, or where, we cannot know of course.

But we know that the chicken hen has been furnishing man with eggs for food since prehistoric times. In fact, the chicken, which probably originated in the jungles of India, spread throughout the world long before recorded history.

Chickens were known in China at least 3,500 years ago! When the Romans began pushing north they found chickens already established in England, Gaul (which used to be the name for France), and among the Germans. They probably didn’t reach the Western Hemisphere until the second voyage of Columbus in 1493.

Today, the single animal which is the most widely distributed food producer in the world, is the chicken. In some parts of the world, however, the duck and duck eggs are preferred. Did you know that the ducks can beat the chicken in producing eggs? There are instances where ducks produced 360 eggs a year.

If you counted all the hens in the world and the number of eggs they produced each year, it would come to about 2 eggs per week for each human being on earth!

An egg can be separated into three parts, the white, the yolk, and the shell. The white accounts for about 58% of the weight of the whole egg. It consists of about 87% water and 12% protein. The yolk accounts for about 32% of the weight of the egg. It is about 49% water, 32% fat, and 17% protein. The shell is about 10% of the weight of the egg.

Eggs are considered a good food because they supply amino acids, minerals, and vitamins.

Source:More Tell Me Why by Arkady Leokum

So there you have it. A totally useless information which didn’t even answer the question posed in the first place. Since we learned that ducks produce more eggs than chickens, I am beginning to think of starting a ‘penoy’ business. A penoy is an infertile incubated duck egg which is a delicacy in the Philippines especially among drunkards. But I don’t want to handle duck eggs and I don’t even want to see them being eaten.

stolen from asiacuisine

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