SC - non-chicken eggs

[Carla S. Tucker]

On Thu, 21 Aug 1997 20:09:10 -0400 Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com>
writes:
>Mark Harris wrote:

>> I've never had them. Are they bigger? richer? or what compared to
>> chicken eggs?
>
>Duck eggs are a bit larger than a standard jumbo hen's egg, and a 
>goose
>egg larger still, sometimes with a volume roughly equal to that of a
>billiard ball. They are richer than hen's eggs, with a higher fat
>content in the yolk.

	My grandmother who ate goose eggs frequently as a child on a farm
in Canada claims they are bitter and leave an unpleasant aftertaste. 
Could it be that whatever they fed the birds made their eggs taste bad?

Carla
tuckers323 at juno.com
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