Moosetical beings & the mysterious double yolked egg

Day 2 - 10:30

Start your day off right with a bowl of Siggis' grapefruit yogurt, granola, sliced ripe banana, and top it off with some agave syrup.
The splendid rarity of yesterday's two yolk in one egg phenomenon have been replaced with concern of radioactive genetically enhanced "organic" New Zealand eggs from Frenz. Might I fall ill from farm fresh eggs? I cracked another one this afternoon and uhm... another freakish mutation stared back at me with its oggely cleavage eyes.



Futher investigation proved even more corncerning as the next egg was also a double.

Must.Learn.Truth.

Intraweb research has turned up this;

the average frequency of a double yolk huevo is about 1 in a 1000. That being said certain Hens have a propensity for laying double eggs, particularly young hens who have yet to develop a laying pattern.

this from the Hindu-India's National Newspaper

"Each egg yolk starts as a follicle cell in the hen's ovary. When a follicle is released from the ovary, it reaches the funnel-shaped infundibulum.

Here is where the rooster's sperm cells get collected and fertilization occurs. Then the yolk reaches the magnum where albumin layers (part of the egg white) are added. The next part of the oviduct is the isthmus where water and more albumin are added and the `egg' gets covered by two fibrous protein membranes.

The egg then reaches the `shell gland' where it gets the hard calcium shell. Finally, the egg is laid.

Young hens sometimes secrete two follicles in quick succession from the ovary. When both of them are together in the oviduct, they get `entrapped' in the same shell leading to a double-yolked egg.

Rarely, one of the follicles remains in the infundibulum too long to be joined by the next secreted follicle leading to double-yolked eggs.

Breakage of non-follicle tissue from the ovary is sometimes mistaken as a yolk and gets covered in the oviduct with albumin and shell. This leads to an egg with no yolk inside.

Double-yolked eggs do not hatch two chicks; usually both the chicks die. There is not enough space for two chicks in the eggshell and neither of the chicks can reach the air-cell (seen in between the two membranes at one end of the egg)."

and now ya know...but does this explain an entire 1/2 carton filled with these things. Does Frenz' Free Fange Eggs Co. recognize the "double layerz" at an early age and house them all together to boost moral? Why not sell and market the Double yolked Carton? "this chick wouldn't have lived anyway so eat it, Karma free" cage free, karma free.

James Beach 9:30- rotiserrie chicken with snap peas and house chop salad. A strange man sat near me at the bar, clearly looking for eye contact so he might begin a convo. Must.Avert.Eyes. I finished the meal hastily, but as I was gathering my things he remarked something about the chicken without provocation.

"must be a good Chicken" he states

"It'll do the job" I say without emotional connection.

"thought you was gonna eat the bones." he snays

I fain giggle.

"no some people do that. like the Japanese." this comes out of his mouth with great authority.

I give him my eyes for the first time. They are Japanese.

"ahghhh. just kidding." he states in an uncomfortable pose.

I am now putting my camera in its case. Failing valiantly at a quick exit.

"Don't see many people with camera cases anymore. they just shove it in where ever." yes he said that.

"well mine's to big to just shove where ever." yes I said that. It came out naturally..and I'm not sorry for it.

I woddled home as fast I could.

then two shots of fernet

then the Moosetical being told me he was town sooooo....four Imperial Beers at the Otherroom


crap....