Eggs and Symbols
The egg symbolises fertility and, by extension, women, or at least female animals, or perhaps even female plants, new life, spring. The egg originally forms part of a pagan custom (festival) and has absolutely nothing to do with Christianity.
When I think of eggs, I also think of the fact that the egg is the most complete food. Whether that is true is open to question. A great deal of nonsense has been said about eggs, just as it has about most of the food we consume. All those health slogans and prohibitions stem, without exception, from the food industry, which has also been feeding us nonsense for years through the ‘Food Pyramid’.
It’s pure nonsense that eggs are unhealthy and that eating them frequently raises your cholesterol levels, which certainly won’t be the case in the Netherlands, if only because eggs have always been incredibly expensive and the price just keeps rising, something that invariably happens before Easter, so this price hike has nothing to do with the slaughter of large numbers of chickens.
This year I might paint some eggs again. Just in a colour to brighten up the Easter holidays a bit. Not as decoration, because I still have blown eggs that were painted and varnished about 13 years ago, if not longer.
Incidentally, in the Netherlands it’s customary to go on an egg hunt, but for years now the boiled eggs have been replaced by (hollow) chocolate eggs that are then hidden. Given that chocolate has become scarcer for whatever reason (at least since the pandemic), chocolate eggs are definitely out of the question (a bar of chocolate is cheaper and tastes better). Not to mention the money, let alone all that annoying foil the eggs are wrapped in.
So it’ll be boiled eggs again, even though we’re not mad about them. Perhaps we could make egg salad out of them.
An egg currently costs 0.39 euros each. I don’t think Gaston from Beauty and the Beast has enough money to polish off 5 doz. of them daily. And while I’m on the subject of Gaston... that makes eggs a symbol of creepy, hairy men with not much going on upstairs. Give them a wide berth if you come across one. There are far nicer men to spend your time with, men who can make you laugh and have a good conversation with.
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30-3-2026
To be honest, I don't usually buy Easter eggs, but I do respect Holy Week. I don't go to church, but I try to be quieter , it's my way of respecting these commemorative dates.
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I buy normal eggs. Except for chocolate eggs, what are Easter eggs?
I find it hard to believe you are a loud person.
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@wakeupkitty
I've always doubted the claim that chicken eggs are harmful... How can they be harmful if the egg ensures the full development of the chicken? For 21 days, the bird grows without receiving a single crumb from the outside. So it has absolutely everything for a living organism))
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Mostly the information we get comes from the headlines that news outlets run. They will say something is harmful for high cholesterol patients and that the research backs it, but when you deep dive into the research, there are variants and nuances that are never communicated.
The common misconception is that fasting is good for you. Fasting with water is good for you, and complete fasting can be beneficial, but research does not back it all that much.
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It is just the food industry.
First we had Joris three Points promoting three glasses milk per day. Turns out it was a way to sell milk.
We also have peanut butter, break the day crack an eg, Wednesday mincehd meat day, Friday fish day, Wednesday Mom's french fries lunchroom, Meat, mother you know why, and and and and.
Today we are no longer allowed to eat: fish, meat, bread, eggs, fruits, vegetables, Christian celebration food, sugar, salt and so on.
I assume Bill Gate's chemical food is left since water shouldn't be available for the common people said the former CEO from Nestlé (good reason to boycot them).
I assume for the same reason they want us to stop eating natural food.
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@wakeupkitty
I think here we get a dozen eggs for half a pound, which is getting expensive as oil prices surge. Eggs are an excellent source of protein, though older people often advise against eating them in summer, as their warming properties can upset the stomach. However, I was able to eat 4 to 5 eggs purely as a protein source and it did not affect me much, as my body was accustomed to it. I still can, but I do not eat them in that quantity anymore.
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With us they only say to be careful with raw eggs and the elderly used in desserts because of the chance of salmonella which his easy to fight by laying the eggs just before you use them a short time in hot water since it is in the scale or right underneath.
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I was quite thin and someone recommended that I chug raw eggs into milk and drink it. I thought it would help, but now I know how wrong that was, salmonella and all. The taste was bad as well. The downside of people not researching! Hehe.
It is also said that a raw, beaten egg is a good remedy for a hangover. Were you drunk? Incidentally, not every egg is contaminated with salmonella; that is a myth too.
Always use your nose, smell, taste and listen to your instinct!
If the price of oil rises, everything is likely to become more expensive, because every country has the strange habit of exporting what it produces and importing what its population consumes.
You are right, sometimes, the cost of domestic shipping, or rather, the transportation of goods within the country, can also cause prices to increase.
And let’s not forget the retailers who are driving up prices, even though they aren’t incurring any extra costs. As one retailer said on the radio during the coronavirus crisis: “I’ll keep raising prices as long as people are crazy enough to pay for it!”