Who’s silly enough and so lazy to buy this crap, anyway? You can’t use the “too poor” copout. I buy “natural, free-range” eggs for $1.69/dozen. I think most people are capable of chopping a bit of onion and mixing in some mayo and making their own egg salad for less.
A food company says it is recalling its egg salad in 17 states because of possible contamination. Ballard’s Farm Sausage says tests showed mixed results for a bacterium that can cause serious or fatal infections in young children or elderly people.
It also can cause miscarriages and stillbirths in pregnant women.
Consumers can return the 12-ounce containers of egg salad for a refund.
Yuck!
Unfortunately we can not buy organic or free range food here simply because it is unavailable. Even if we could, however, egg salad would not be on the list. Nor would tuna salad, chicken salad, or any other prepared food with such a short life be on the list.
Mr. Fusion,
Are there no farms on your industrial complex?
Free range eggs only, for our family. It’s our only in our vegetarian lifestyle.
Many buy the Omega-3 eggs, do your homework. Those O-3 eggs are raised in very cruel conditions for the chickens, just like regular eggs. Plus paying extra for a -supposedly- better feed.
Tread lightly on this Living Earth.
Mr Fusion lives in in the sun… at least thats what Miss Brown taught us.
#3
People who buy Omega-3 eggs, don’t usually think about the way the chickens are treated, but what the egg contains. 😉
You really need some sweet pickle relish in there.
We add paprika as well. On top mostly, same as a deviled egg.
dammit!!! Now I have to return the 4 tons of egg salad I purchased…
*sarcasm* jebus whos buying that nasty shit anyway?
#8 …who’s buying that nasty shit anyway?
Dictators around the world… 😉
Hey, what’s the big deal? Our local Ziggy’s makes great potato salad which is very handy for large family picnics in the summer. Just because some places make crap doesn’t mean it’s all bad. I agree it’s too expensive for what you get though.
“Free range chicken” is one of the largest lies foisted upon us by the agriculture industry. “Free Range” chicken and regular factory chicken ar e the same thing , except for the last week of their brief lives.
Free Range chicken is raised in a barn, with no outside access, during most of the life of the chicken. The last few days they open the barn door to a small area outside, (30 feet by 30 feet?), so the chickens can go outside and ‘free range’. Big problem: the chickens have never been outside and are terrified of going outside. Also, they are flock animals, so they tend to huddle together inside, away from the door.
“Free range’ eggs come from chickens that are kept caged/locked-up, are debeaked, and have virtually no access to any ‘real’ food.
Anyone that thinks that ‘free range chicken’ has ANYTHING to do with chickens happily running around eating bugs and worms and scratching in the dirt knows nothing about agro-business.
You may be able to find eggs that meet your imagination of ‘free range’ but certainly not at any store. The best bet is from a known supplier at a farmer’s market, and you should expect to pay about $1 per egg for the real thing.
Google “Free Range Chicken”… you will be sorely disappointed.
Awake, I was nodding my head in agreement until you said $1 per egg.
Another sucker trap is Fair Trade coffee. Everyone’s got their hand in the pot (so to speak) except the hard working, poorly paid bean pickers.
#11 — keep on with True Believing, dude. If you care about what you eat, you check out who you buy your food from — and where they get it. Either you’re providing an excuse for sticking with battery-chicken — because “they’re all the same” — or you’re going the sectarian side of the organic route where you talk to the chickens — before you eat their eggs.
I can buy free range chickens and eggs from 2 of the markets where I regularly shop. I’ve taken the time to check out the farms supplying the one I shop most often — especially because of whiners who follow your party line — and say I only should shop the other.
Because the FDA and the Dept. of Agriculture have caved in to agribiz sleaze to allow more crap into the stream (1) doesn’t mean all the suppliers have gone straight to the lowest common denominator and (2) behooves consumers to check on the origins of what they eat.
You don’t sound like you do either.
Cripes, I even ended up getting a job offer from one dairy when they found out how thorough a job I did researching their products — and reporting on them, locally. They’re family-owned, 3 generations, and big enough to provide product to a region of one moderate national chain.
“$1 an egg for the real thing”? I hope your Mommie doesn’t let you go shopping on your own.
Do the math people. $1 an egg for eggs that come from truly free roaming chickens is not that outlandish. I would be suspect of anything that costs less than that.
Think of it this way. Chickens lay one egg per day, but more realistically more like 5 eggs per week. Egg farms trick chickens into laying more (hormones and light cycles), but the resulting quality is horrendous.
If I have a stall at a farmer’s market, and I have 150 chickens running loose from which I collect eggs (that’s a whole lot of chickens for an individual to raise), I might get 10 dozen per day, or $120 at $1 per egg. Subtract maintenance and feeding, packing , shipping, stall costs, etc,, and I might get $100 per day for a whole lot of work, and that is at $1 per egg. Drop that to 25 cents ($3 / dozen which you seem to think would be a high price), and the whole take is what… $25 for a days work? And selling the chickens themselves as they get old does not add much to the equation.
Now if you want to have more than 150 chickens to decrease costs by volume, what is the solution? Cage them up and feed them processed feed. So much for free range and the economics involved.
I doubt that many readers of this blog have ever actually had an egg from a small 5 chicken coop where the chickens have a large yard to roam. The kind where the chickens eat lots of bugs, plants,dirt, etc. They are as different from ANY market eggs as your family car is different from a NASCAR car. Same name, completely different item.
One easy way to tell the difference… eggs that come from small real free range coop have surprisingly thick shells and the yolk is a deep deep radiant yellow, almost with a slight green undertone. They yolk stands up and holds together really firmly when the egg is broken, and the yolk is larger than your average supermarket egg.
If you want to believe that you can get real ‘free range’ eggs for $3 per dozen… fine, but you should know the real truth.
I’m just amazed that you don’t at least have farmers markets Mr. Fusion. My Mom’s family is from east/central Ohio and they have farm markets all over the place, and of course the Amish, who love selling their excess produce and eggs(honestly, free range, and organic).
We have free range, organic at the ranch, but we don’t sell anymore, just to a couple local markets and an egg specialty resturant. Plus we ship about 4 dozen eggs a month to each of my Uncles and a couple cousins around the country, and Mom donates eggs and chicken to the local shelters. Our biggest problem is the Hawks, they tend to like free rangeing chickens.
Most people have never eaten a *real* egg unless they are from a rural family and quite old. They do taste better, and definatly look better, the color of the yolk is very orange, almost a golden orange.
But regardless of where you get your eggs, not having the time, or skills to make egg salad fresh at home is pitiful.
Personally, I think all egg salad should be recalled.
why is everyone so hung-up on the “free range chicken” thing? Its a selling point, no more. You want real-natural-nonaltered-nondebeaked chicken? go raise some in your backyard, because you sure as hell wont get chicken that is “all natural” anywhere else.
from the responses it would appear that some of you have the ability to think… try it sometime.
jebus
Yucch.
As far as I am concerned they should recall ALL the egg salad.
Never liked the stuff, never will.
I guess it comes from the fact that when they gave us hard boiled eggs in elementary school, the yolks were green. Something about a layer of protein around the yolk when you overboil them. Never the less, I have never liked anything with hard boiled eggs in it.
Keep your egg salad out of my life. Recall it all… Better yet, outlaw it, like vegemite!
The hassle in making egg salad is peeling all those hard boiled eggs.