Vegetarian Alerts
21 April 2010
I fancied and egg sandwich and some lentil soup so I cracked and egg and out flopped a big fat chicken embryo into the frying pan. Clay was watching, as was his Oma and Nora too as I cracked the egg. We all got a major fright.
Then I opened a tin of soup and put it in a saucepan on the gas. When it boiled, I poured it in a bowl and put some in my mouth. There was chopped up sausages in it!! I spat it out(Paul) and looked at the tin. It had a label on the tin saying vegetarian. Nora called the manufacturer and they said we were the second folk to call and that someone in the factory had mis-labeled a large quantity. They are going to send us some more soup to make up for the mistake.
Man that chicken embryo will stay with me though. Errrrraaauuughhh!!!
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It’s disconcerting enough to get bits of meat in your food from cross-contamination in restaurants, but sausage in a soup marked vegetarian?! That’s heinous!
I have to say, I’ve never had an egg embryo pop out before. What a string of disturbing cooking events!
Double bad luck Fran, but thanks for posting about it.
I’ve had double egg yolks before, but I’ve never an actual formed chick embryo – ewww.
That soup sounds really bad for vegetarians like you. Well done on sticking with it like you said for Macca. Lentil with added sausage, it doesn’t sound very nice. Still, lucky it wasn’t oxtail eh? :-/
what a bad-food experience!!
all in one day??
That just about put me off eggs. *gag*
Woah! A double whammy of unfortunate events. Did it put you right off eating anything else?
That’s horrible!! I’ve never had an embryo pop out of an egg, but I cringe every time I crack open one, hoping that’s not what I’ll find :s Was that the only one from the bunch? If a rooster was loose among the chickens there might be more, so watch out!
Kitchen abortion-grross!
Vodooists say its a sign of a wee bairn in the barn-double durexes advised!
Thank my Scottish Dad for turning me vego at 15yrs old. Too many meals of Haggis (sheep’s heart, liver, lungs and salt simmered in animal’s stomach for hours and black pudding (congealed blood sausage.)
Krishnas turned me off eggs after the ‘Chicken’s period’ lecture.
Organic brown rice protein powder kept my muscles from wasting- beans meant too many farts…
Would be happy to send you some.
Also love the South Indian Urad dal dishes of Idli rice cake and Dosha pancake. Urad dal being the highest vego protein source.
If you want a summary of vegetarian rationale you’re welcome to read my article and feel free to hand it to meat eating hasslers.
http://www.ayurvedaelements.com/articlevegetarianism.php
Fran says “Wow, thanks”
Oh no! Awful! that’s one of my biggest fears.
I just imagine that scene and… ewww! no no.
Poor little chicken. Poor Clay, poor everyone who saw it.
When I was a little girl, I lived on a farm and we had chickens. I had two chickens that I considered my pets and they would follow me around, but after a couple years those two chickens stopped laying eggs. I figured they would go into chicken retirement. Nope. I woke early one morning to a blood-clurdling sound of chicken screams. I ran out to the coop in my underwear to find my grandfather, who I loved very dearly, beheading my pet chickens. They’re necks are very strong, so it took more than one blow to kill them. They screamed as my grandfather pounded at their tiny, little necks. I never ate meat again. Animal death stays with you.
Fran says “Did your grandad know these were your pets? That’s going to damage you mentally”
franny, ive been vegetarian for 12 years now, and i can attest that the times you accidentally have meat will stick with you forever. i have to be especially careful at authentic Chinese restaurants. they don’t really seem to care if they cook your food in the same wok as the others… doesn’t leave me in a good place, physically. once i got a piece of chicken in my so-called vegan dish. i didn’t eat it, caught it before i did, but mentally, i was disgusted. felt sick for days afterward even though it did nothing to me. its weird how we can train our minds without even knowing it.
Pawpop knew they were my pets, but he was also an old farmer type. He considered killing chickens after they stopped laying to be part of the circle of life. I disagreed. I don’t know if that moment will ever come up in therapy, but it certainly turned me off of meat.
Yuck! I had the egg thing happen back before I stopped eating meat (almost 6 year ago), but I never considered this thought then: How often do the foods massed produced using eggs have this happen? Bread, donuts, cereal, pasta, marshmallow (gross, has gelatin in it anyways. Don’t get me started on gelatin and the surprising places you find it.), mayonnaise, ice cream, pudding, custard, and on and on. I would assume it happens quite frequently.
one time my boyfriend was making hardboiled eggs, and all of a sudden we heard this frantic chirping sound coming from the pot! we were horrified to think that we were cooking a baby chick or something.. we were both so freaked out, but he was really frantic, so i took the pot to the sink and, trembling, i broke open every single of the dozen eggs. i wasn’t sure what i would do if i found anything, but there was nothing but whites and yolk inside. to this day we’re not sure what that was about…
Hey Fran, I’m delighted to hear that you’re veggie; I had no idea but really, I should have guessed huh!!
I encountered my first chicken embryo a few months ago and yeah, I know what you mean about disturbing, it’s horrible eh. I always buy organic free range eggs but still you’re never 100% safe.
Hi,
Why dont you do a blog post mentioning your nomination for Sexiest Vegetarian Celebrty 2010?
Im sure poeple would like to know and vote for you!
http://www.peta.org.uk/features/sexiest-vegetarian-celebrity-2010-vote?c=puksvp10
FH says ” Ahhh I saw this, this is funny. Sexiest vegetarian. Jesus, they can’t be many celebrity veggies. I think you need to be a veggie for at least 10 years before you can be considered for such an enormous accolade.”
ewwwww that’s pretty nasty, the same thing with the egg happend to my dad. but that’s even grosser that the can of vegitarian soup was not veggie. Nasty blek blech bleh