Monty by Jim Meddick for May 16, 2016

So difficult to talk about sex to birds.

It’s one of those curious little cultural differences, but here in the UK hens’ eggs are brown (or in the case of some very fancy breeds, pale pink, blue or green). Duck eggs are white, but I haven’t seen a white hen’s egg on sale in Britain since I think the 1960s.

Is Monty birdsitting Moondog’s parrot?

What will Fleshy have for breakfast I wonder?

Some folks I talk to, used to white eggs, think the brown eggs are somehow fresher, organic, or in some way better (like whole wheat vs. white bread). I just don’t like brown eggs because I find the shells too brittle: they tend to crumble in my hand when I try to break them. Tastes the same to me.

. . . “And you keep them in the fridge???”

The Mother Earth News chicken and egg page:http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/eggs-zl0z0703zswa.aspx

Hmmm… a bird that doesn’t know about the birds and the bees.

A commercial here sings, “Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are fresh!”

This directly corresponds to a gross joke I’ve heard.

Person1: Eggs are gross because you’re eating a chicken fetus.

Person2: That’s not true. They’re not even fertilized.

Person1: Oh… That’s okay then, I guess.

Person2: Yeah. Technically, you’re eating a chicken’s period.