Prairie oyster

[tenngun]

My mother got s. Ok book in '46 as a wedding present. Flicking through to a dish I was planning the page fell open to prairie oysters..not what I was thinking :haha: I would bet this goes back to at lest colonial times, if not Rome.
1 egg,1/2 tap conifer,salt and pepper. Egg in a wine glass,topped and careful not to break yoke then drank,hmmmm.

 

[satx78247]

ImVho, "prairie oysters" are GROSS & just may make you really sick. = I've had exactly ONE long ago & that was one too many.

yours, satx

 

[coloradoclyde]

:barf:

 

[yonderin]

Had 'em on a couple of occasions, not so bad. Depending on way of preparing and cooking makes a difference.

Having tried collard greens once, I'll pass on seconds and yet some folks seem to eat it regular.

 

[Gene L]

Prairie oysters aren't cooked, raw egg yolk in (one version) tomato juice. Supposedly good for a hangover. You're thinking of mountain oysters. (balls.)

 

[bender20]

Played rugby with some guys who wanted to bulk up but didn't want to buy the expensive protein shakes. They used to drink 2 or 3 raw eggs with milk and I never saw them get sick. They would break the yoke and mix it with the milk though but still raw egg. I never tried it myself never saw the need to skip the frying pan.

 

[yonderin]

Nah. Around here they're prairie oysters. But I do see my confusion.

 

[Gene L]

Eggs that don't come from egg farms are a lot healthier than the ones you get at the supermarket, which can have salmonella. While free-range eggs are healthier, I don't know if I trust them, either. I won't eat raw eggs because I don't like raw eggs, but will eat them over. Runny yolks, firm whites.

The other day, I read somewhere that the US is the only place where we refrigerate eggs. Which is because they may have salmonella in them. Elsewhere, it's in a basket to the frying pan.

 

[satx78247]

Generally TRUE in my experience.

yours, satx

 

[tenngun]

I've heard them called both,and Mexican or basque oysters.

 

[tenngun]

I've made a lot of eggnog with raw eggs cream and milk, but a bit of brandy too.
Eggs are clean it's the stuff on the shell that contaminates raw egg.

 

[Gene L]

I've made a lot of eggnog with raw eggs cream and milk, but a bit of brandy too.
Eggs are clean it's the stuff on the shell that contaminates raw egg.

You can get it from the inside as well. Food that the hens eat can contain salmonella.
http://www.cleveland.com/healthy-eating/index.ssf/2010/08/how_eggs_carry_salmonella.html

 

[Kansas Jake]

Fresh eggs that are not washed will keep fairly long without refrigeration. Once they are washed the unrefrigerated shelf life is much shorter.

Getting food poisoning from raw eggs is not overly common, but why take the chance.

 

[tenngun]

That's new to me :hatsoff: I wonder if the brandy in my eggnog kills it. :haha:

 

[Gene L]

I don't think you see all that number of cases, but it's a possibility.

Pasteurized eggs kills the problem. Back when some egg company had to recall thousands of eggs, it made the news. A couple of years ago, IIRC.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

I think there are 50 billion eggs produced in the U.S. each year,

Reported cases of S. Enteritis(that is the salmonellosis normally found in eggs)from eggs are something like 650,000 cases per year. :shocked2: Sounds like a lot! but that is one case per every 76,923 eggs. Also 26% are kids under 5. So that's 481,000 Adults per year. :hmm: So it looks like if you don't eat eggs until you turn 6, then eat about 150 eggs per year, and you live to be 70..... :hmm: your life time odds of getting S. Enteritis from eggs is about 10%.... or 90% that you won't.

 

[KingofDerby]

something like 650,000 cases per year.

In the UK we get 2500... so that's 50 times less, once you counter for the smaller population.

Unwashed, unrefrigerated eggs from (relatively) clean farms works.

 

[Sean Gadhar]

It may be so. It may also be reporting or diet. I think my own number are highly suspect due to variables. It might be as simple as over easy eggs not being as popular in the UK. Or zealous reporting here and not so much In The U.K.

If memory serves me, the U.K. Has much stricter controls on live stock feed then we do here. I think after the "mad cow" problem you guys got vary careful. There is an argument made that our over use of antibiotics kills the good bacteria opening the way for salmonella To invade :idunno:

 

[KingofDerby]

Over easy is over cooked to me, and I suspect a lot of people! And doctors/hospital visits are free, and sick leave available to most, so I'd have thought it would be reported.

I know we've always used less hormones, so perhaps less antibiotics too...
Ok, so I looked things up... the Lion code (90% of eggs sold) requires tracability (all eggs have stamps showing the farm's ID) proper cleaning of houses, vaccines, testing for disease...you cannot feed birds to chickens, etc etc. So... yeh, lots of protections.

I wonder if the fridged egg thing has historical/geographical origins...cities pringing up with rail infrastructer, but no small farms, meaning eggs have to come from further (in hotter climate then in the UK for a lot of the USA)

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Could be..., the refrigerated box car caused the Beef industry to explode across America. Produce followed after that.

LD