In my life I have had a few strange things come out of an egg. This is of course not counting all those plastic eggs that people put things in; I am talking the real deal fresh from the chicken eggs.
I remember the first double yoke. And my true dream of an egg that was nothing but a yoke. But what I found last night has left me puzzled all day.
I decided to scramble some eggs for a part of my diner. After I had three eggs in the pan I noticed a strange looking gray thingy. It was about a quarter inch round and floating in the middle of the yoke of one of the eggs.
Now, things happen, I get this. But what bothers me is my reaction to it. A sane, normal human would say gross and dump the whole thing. Heck, for safety sake dump the whole package of eggs in the garbage.
Oh, but not Ben. I stood there, took a long and steady look at it, and said to myself. “I wonder if it tastes like chicken or an egg”?
I ended up getting a spoon and removing the object of my thoughts from my diner, scrambled the eggs, and had a decent diner. And the rest of the eggs are still safe in the fridge. I played with the gray thing for a moment before tossing it out, and would say that it closely resembled liver. It was rubbery in texture, and didn’t smell bad.
But it really bothers me that my first reaction wasn’t of disgust, but of curiosity of what it would taste like.
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