two yolks, one shell
I cracked open a two-yolk egg today and fried it. There's something magical about eating two unborn chickens from a single shell. Apparently it happens in about 1 out of every 1,000 eggs and with greater frequency in jumbo sized eggs.
"Throughout history and in different cultures, finding a double yolk has been considered to mean anything from an impending wedding to a financial windfall to a death in the family."
"In Europe, eggs are used to tell fortunes. An egg with a double yolk means an impending marriage, an egg with a dark spot on the yolk symbolizes a bad omen, and an egg without a yolk is plain old unlucky."
"Venerated as a symbol of life, ancient philosophers saw the egg as a symbol of the world and the four elements. The shell was seen to represent the earth; the white, water; the yolk, fire; and the fourth element, air, was found under the shell at the rounded end."
"The discovery of a double yolk within is cause for terror or celebration depending on which school of thought is followed - some say it presages a wedding, others a death. Once the egg is consumed, its shell must be broken up lest a witch use it to gain power over the person who ate from it. A witch might also make a boat from an intact shell, then set sail in it and wreck ships at sea."
I didn't crush the shell. Hopefully we don't have any neighbourhood witches here in Alameda, though I do like the imagery of some witch digging through our garbage bins at night, looking for my freak-egg shell.
"Throughout history and in different cultures, finding a double yolk has been considered to mean anything from an impending wedding to a financial windfall to a death in the family."
"In Europe, eggs are used to tell fortunes. An egg with a double yolk means an impending marriage, an egg with a dark spot on the yolk symbolizes a bad omen, and an egg without a yolk is plain old unlucky."
"Venerated as a symbol of life, ancient philosophers saw the egg as a symbol of the world and the four elements. The shell was seen to represent the earth; the white, water; the yolk, fire; and the fourth element, air, was found under the shell at the rounded end."
"The discovery of a double yolk within is cause for terror or celebration depending on which school of thought is followed - some say it presages a wedding, others a death. Once the egg is consumed, its shell must be broken up lest a witch use it to gain power over the person who ate from it. A witch might also make a boat from an intact shell, then set sail in it and wreck ships at sea."
I didn't crush the shell. Hopefully we don't have any neighbourhood witches here in Alameda, though I do like the imagery of some witch digging through our garbage bins at night, looking for my freak-egg shell.