Ostrich Eggs

[supersize me]

So I'm watching the History Channel's show called modern marvels and this episode is about eggs. Part of it was about ostrich eggs. Apparently one ostrich egg has approximately 2000 calories?? Think about throwing one of those bad boys into your diet daily! Has anybody ever tried one before?

[DanB]

Really 2000 cals? there is a local restaurant here that has them, I've had them a few times, quite nice

[supersize me]

Yeah! After watching it, I'm rather intrigued by them and want to find a place near me to try one.

[DanB]

crocodile escalopes for a starter, ostrich egg for main, some overpriced wine and cheesy jazz music

good night haha

[supersize me]

double post

[Razor]

So I'm watching the History Channel's show called modern marvels and this episode is about eggs. Part of it was about ostrich eggs. Apparently one ostrich egg has approximately 2000 calories?? Think about throwing one of those bad boys into your diet daily! Has anybody ever tried one before?

This is why your name is supersize me lol

[jasc]

crazy man.. never heard this before...

An ostrich egg is approx 7" long n 18" around and equivalent to 2 dozen chicken eggs..
2000 calories per egg and approx 47% protein, 45% fat (approx same percentages as chicken eggs)

http://www.livestrong.com/article/34...-ostrich-eggs/

[Razor]

45% fat sure to throw your macros for the day though

[supersize me]

45% fat sure to throw your macros for the day though

No joke. This would definitely fall in the cheat meal category.

[V-ROID]

Had a dog that loved scrambled eggs. U guy I worked with raised emu's and gave me a giant, green egg. I wasn't going to eat it so I scrambled it up for the dog. She went over, sniffed it and walked away. That's gotta mean something...

[Flagg]

Heard these take about 40 minutes to boil.

[supersize me]

Heard these take about 40 minutes to boil.

That's crazy. Hardboiling it would probably make it a lot easier to eat just the egg white and cancel out a lot of the grams of fat in it.