Eggs
The Thousand Egg Club
Do you eat at least 1000 eggs a year? If so, you're a member of the 'Thousand Egg Club.'The club was created by the National Poultry and Egg Board in 1957. Several political figures who swore to eat 1000 eggs a year were given certificates of memberships. But as far as I know, the general public couldn't send away for a certificate.
I usually eat two eggs for breakfast every day. But I doubt I eat enough eggs in addition to that to reach 1000.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Mar 27, 1957
Glen Falls Post-Star - July 31, 1959
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Category: Clubs, Fraternities and Other Self-selecting Organizations, Eggs, 1950s
The man who hatched an egg on his stomach
We've previously posted about Ella Petry, the British woman who in 1958 became famous when she hatched an egg in her cleavage.Seven years before she did this, a young man in Germany, Gerd Ruthmann, hatched an egg on his stomach.
He got some media attention for this feat, but nothing like the publicity that Petry received.
Life - July 2, 1951
Life - Dec 12, 1969
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Category: Eggs, 1950s
Exploding Easter Eggs
Happy Easter!
Sioux City Journal - Mar 28, 1983
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Category: Explosives, Holidays, Easter, Eggs, 1980s
Egg Blowing
According to Life magazine (Dec 15, 1952), in the early 1950s the sport of egg blowing (Eieren Blazen) was all the rage in Holland.
The rules of the game:
I can't find any references to the game beyond this one article in Life.
I can see why it would be an amusing game at parties. But probably not appropriate for the age of Covid.
"Players and spectators go into convulsions of laughter as a woman blows so hard at egg that she blows out her false teeth on the table"
Posted By: Alex - Mon Apr 03, 2023 -
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Category: Sports, Eggs, 1950s
Egg Telepathy
Useless Superpower: Mrs. Gertrude Smith of York, Pennsylvania claimed that she was able to project mental images into the minds of hens, causing them to lay eggs with distinctive patterns. For instance, she thought of sunflowers and, sure enough, her hens laid eggs with a sunflower pattern.Unfortunately it doesn't appear that any pictures were taken of the patterned eggs, even though Mrs. Smith brought some into the offices of the York Gazette and Daily, in order to prove her claim.
York Gazette and Daily - Apr 4, 1940
York Gazette and Daily - May 21, 1940
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Posted By: Alex - Mon Jan 16, 2023 -
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Category: Human Marvels, Eggs, 1940s
An egg inside an egg
In 1949, farmer Fred Bollman of St. Louis found that one of his hens had laid an unusually large egg. When he picked up the egg, it cracked, revealing a second egg that had formed inside.
The phenomenon of an egg inside an egg is extremely rare. It's caused by the process of "counter-peristalsis contraction." As explained by cbc.ca:
The second egg forms around the first, hence the large size.
In March 2018, Wendy Devuyst found that one of her hens had laid an unusually large egg. She suspected it was an egg-inside-an-egg (because the same hen had previously laid one of these), so she filmed herself cracking it open. And sure enough, it was.
Posted By: Alex - Thu Jan 05, 2023 -
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Category: Eggs
The Panasonic Audio Egg
Posted By: Paul - Tue Dec 21, 2021 -
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Category: Domestic, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Inventions, Music, Eggs, 1960s
Long Eggs
Long eggs are either: a) eggs laid by specially bred long chickens; or b) a highly engineered food product created in the 1970s to satisfy the food service industry's desire to have egg slices with a consistent ratio of white and yolk.You can choose what you want to believe.
source: shemazing.net
The video below shows how long eggs might be engineered. It's in German, but even if you don't speak that it's easy to understand what's going on.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Oct 04, 2021 -
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Category: Food, Eggs
The 10,000 (Really 7200) Egg Omelet
Get the full story, with more pics, here.
BONUS: Same stunt done almost 90 years later!
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Jul 05, 2021 -
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Food, Eggs, World Records, 1930s, Europe, North America, Twenty-first Century
Raw-Egg Diet
Orlando Sentinel - Dec 12, 1974
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Category: Eggs, 1970s, Dieting and Weight Loss
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