Do you think eggs are bad for you?

I think eggs are great. Grew up eating them, my grandparents ate them for their whole lives, I still eat 2-3 most mornings.
 
Eggs are healthiest food you can eat the cholesterol in them doesn't give you high cholesterol either
 
Natural Order said:
Whoops I edited my vulgarity too late lol

Eggs are amazing, and good for you. Everything in moderation.

Why is calories in/calories out and moderation such a hard concept for the modern dummy?
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Imo you have to consider the massive way in which our food supply has been manipulated within our lifetime. Anyone younger than say 35 or so probably doesn't even remember when there were far less fast food places, eating at them was far less common, and the grocery store had less heavily processed food items.

The you add a fast paced culture where many of us are frantically running around all day, and then stopping at some random fast food place to eat. Americans make much pooer choices about food than we used to for sure, but the choices are worse and that's by design.

They know food loaded with salt and sugar is more tasty and more addictive. Everything being on a for profit model without the possibility of true government intervention because the government is in the pocket of big business too.

When I was growing up in the 80s and 90s there was a national health program promoting healthy eating and exercise and they would bring in celebrities like Arnold to spread the message. They would teach you about the food pyramid and how to make healthy choices about food early on in grade school.

The culture has changed into mindless consumerism bullshit and it's fucked the country up in a lot of ways, not just our diet.
 
I eat 12 a day, workout 5 days a week (on top of other physical work), and limit sugar and processed foods. I’ve been following this plan for years and when I get my annual checkup, my bloodwork is always perfect. Even as I’m approaching 40.
 
Much of the Yay data comes from Egg company sponsored science, and much of the Nay science also has an eggenda.
 
They are an eggtremely important eggcellent food source, eggspecially the whites. And no, I'm not yoking.
 
mozfonky said:
you should try the chinese method where they bury eggs for a hundred years, dig em up and eat em. That shit sounds gross.
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They don't bury them for a 100 years. And it's as gross as it would be if you explained to someone ignorant about how cheese is made. The fact that it doesn't just means that happens to be the 'normal' you have been conditioned with. Taste-wise it's hardly one of the more out-there foods, even for a conventional Western pallet.

I remember this game skit with Jimmy Kimmel and Harry Styles where they had this rotating table of 'gross' foods, somewhat to my surprise, one plate also had 1000 years eggs. Ew-ing and pointing at foreign food as barbaric and gross has always been a very potent way in othering ethnic cuisines. Which is kind of ironic, considering how utterly disgusting the diet of the average American is.
 
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MidgardSerpent said:
They don't bury them for a 100 years. And it's as gross as it would be if you explained to someone ignorant about how cheese is made. The fact that it doesn't just means that happens to be the 'normal' you have been conditioned with. Taste-wise it's hardly one of the more out-there foods, even for a conventional Western pallet.

I remember this game skit with Jimmy Kimmel and Harry Styles where they had this rotating table of 'gross' foods, one plate also had 1000 years eggs. Ew-ing at foreign food as barbaric and gross has always come off as incredibly small-minded and ignorant to me.
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fuck that, i wouldn't eat a two week old easter egg, it don't have to be that old and ya, we're all ethnocentric. It always makes me think of this little white girl, cute as a button asking our University Jewish studies teacher, "I don't get why you can't eat pig, it's just pig" and this Jewish scholar said, 'Ok, I'll explain it to you this way, you go over to your friends house and your friend happens to be of a different religion and your friend brings you out a nice big plate of DOG!!!!" That little white girl looked so stupid when he said that, cute and dumb. Yup, we're all ethnocentric, I have ancestors who ate their own kinfolks during periods of starvation and it might a been normal to them but fuck that.
 
mozfonky said:
fuck that, i wouldn't eat a two week old easter egg, it don't have to be that old and ya, we're all ethnocentric. It always makes me think of this little white girl, cute as a button asking our University Jewish studies teacher, "I don't get why you can't eat pig, it's just pig" and this Jewish scholar said, 'Ok, I'll explain it to you this way, you go over to your friends house and your friend happens to be of a different religion and your friend brings you out a nice big plate of DOG!!!!" That little white girl looked so stupid when he said that, cute and dumb. Yup, we're all ethnocentric, I have ancestors who ate their own kinfolks during periods of starvation and it might a been normal to them but fuck that.
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It's not so much about having a specific point of view, we always view the world through our own bubble. The damaging part usually stems from automatically assuming it's the superior and only one and not being able or willing to adapt a different point of view and consider it's merits.

And like I said, it's pretty tame when it comes to taste, it basically tastes like an earthy egg. You can dip it in black vinegar with chopped pieces of ginger to give it a nice accent and interaction of sharp and earthy flavors.



Think of how much something like Kimchi has become normalized in the West due to the Korean cultural invasion (cue buzz words like gut health!, probiotics!). If you'd turn back the clock even 10 years you probably wouldn't have the average teenager willing to touch it because it 'looks gross, smells like spoiled cabbage, and probably contains dog meat' or some variant of that. That's how easily the crowd's perception of normal can flip.
 
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RoastBeast said:
New York Times is gonna fact check this.

"Acktually US Froot Loops only contains red dye 40, yellow 5, blue 1 and butylated hydroxytoluene"
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mozfonky said:
you should try the chinese method where they bury eggs for a hundred years, dig em up and eat em. That shit sounds gross.
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That's an even easier delicacy to try and eat IMO. It's called a thousand year egg (or century egg) but it's nowhere close to being fermented for hundreds of years. It's anywhere from a month to a few years. It's got a jelly-like creamy texture with sharp salty egg flavors. One of the most popular way of using it is in a congee (rice soup) with pork and scallions. one of the best breakfast you can have in Asia IMO.

It always amuses me to see people be disgusted by foods. You think fermenting an egg is disgusting but turn around and eat cheese which is a form of fermentation by storing seasoned curdled milk for months or years. The original way of making milk was storing milk in a container made from the stomach of an animal. Neither the century egg nor the milk are made in the old ways. But yeah cheese is okay but not century egg. lol.
 
SaiWa said:
That's an even easier delicacy to try and eat IMO. It's called a thousand year egg (or century egg) but it's nowhere close to being fermented for hundreds of years. It's anywhere from a month to a few years. It's got a jelly-like creamy texture with sharp salty egg flavors. One of the most popular way of using it is in a congee (rice soup) with pork and scallions. one of the best breakfast you can have in Asia IMO.

It always amuses me to see people be disgusted by foods. You think fermenting an egg is disgusting but turn around and eat cheese which is a form of fermentation by storing seasoned curdled milk for months or years. The original way of making milk was storing milk in a container made from the stomach of an animal. Neither the century egg nor the milk are made in the old ways. But yeah cheese is okay but not century egg. lol.
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Sure its mental I know a guy who cleaned a meat dept as a teen and it sickened him to the point he became vegetarian.
 
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