Turkey eggs on Christmas Day

[Accy cyclist]

Where are they? Why aren't they for sale like chicken,duck and goose eggs? This'll be my first Christmas as a committed vegetarian. Obviously i wont be eating the flesh of a turkey but i thought i might have a turkey egg or two on the big day. All i can find online are these. https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/1828974967...=9046602&device=c&campaignid=974198600&crdt=0 Have any of you tried a turkey egg? If so what are they like and where did you buy them?

 

[Globalti]

Absolutely fowl.

 

[numbnuts]

Turkey eggs contain most of the same nutrients as chicken eggs but are richer. The average turkey egg is 50 percent larger than a chicken egg, but contains nearly twice as many calories and grams of fat and four times as much cholesterol.

 

[Crackle]

Perhaps they've been gobbled up.

 

[nickyboy]

I may be wrong, but isn't it the case that just because a food contains a lot of cholesterol it doesn't increase the cholesterol of the person eating it? The human body, I think, doesn't produce cholesterol by absorbing it from the food we eat. I think prawns are another good example...cram packed with cholesterol

 

[twentysix by twentyfive]

Turkey eggs - Pah. Real men have Ostrich eggs

 

[Nibor]

As you pick up your turkey at the grocery store this week, you might wonder why you never see the birds' eggs for sale. Gobbling turkeys do lay eggs. But selling them in grocery stores would have its drawbacks.

Turkey eggs’ small numbers and big size make them less practical for the poultry section.

Chickens start reproducing early and pump out more eggs than turkeys. The larger size of turkey eggs requires more room to nest, which takes up too much space in a coop. Economically, meat from a grown turkey bird is much more valuable than an extra large fried egg.

 

[vickster]

Try a few farm shops maybe? Or local high end butcher/deli. If Accy and it’s environs, have high end food emporia?

 

[oldfatfool]

How the flying fark can you be a veggy and eat eggs? Unbourn meat must be the least veggy thing you can eat from either a moral or any other ground for being a veggy. One 'committed' veggy i know lambasted me for eating fois gras ffs and he drives about with leather seats in his car. All double std plonkers imo.

 

[oldfatfool]

Eggs are not foetuses.

Not bloody green and grow in the ground neither.

Edit: well some might be bloody and green, but even I would give those a miss.

 

[oldfatfool]

Not all vegetarians are vegans.

Yeh and some veggies can eat fish and some meats, probably the ones they like the taste of on any particular day.

 

[MichaelW2]

Waitrose sell turkey eggs.

 

[User482]

Not bloody green and grow in the ground neither.

Edit: well some might be bloody and green, but even I would give those a miss.

Eggs are not meat. HTH.

 

[vickster]

Waitrose sell turkey eggs.

The nearest Waitrose to Accrington is in Preston ~18 miles away)...How can anyone live there on that basis? Next you'll be telling me there's a Lidl closer

 

[Nibor]

Accy doesn't live in Accrington