Hombres sin huevos...

[Mahonri]

Hombres sin huevos

There is a market in Mexico....

 

[rufus]

Hmmm! I am not sure where we are going with this thread, and no one has picked it up. I haven't seen you posting lately, so I was wondering if you died or what?

Rufus

 

[theoldchick]

Egg shortage in Mexico....hmmmm

 

[rufus]

Used to be most of the commercial egg production in Mexico was marketed under the "Mezquital de Oro" brand. I am not sure who the big operators are now. I haven't been back since 2004.

Things change and yet they stay the same. I suspect there is more to this post than what hit the screen; maybe a link to a newspaper article that was omitted.

Rufus

 

[cassie]

Quote:
I did a double take when I read that phrase. Huevos means eggs in Spanish, but it is a slang term for something else entirely.

 

[sfw2]

Quote: So it's not just me!

 

[ivan3]

Mahonri wrote: There is a market in Mexico...

Dang! Looks like the big U.S egg cartels are taking up the slack.

However, any aspiring `egg coyote', who can work out the logistics, can move the 42 we have stashed in cartons. `Onward to Oaxaca!'

I suppose, if one were to smuggle the eggs into Mexico, in one's pants, one couldn't be arrested for lying if one told the truth...

 

[rufus]

Thank you Google. Here is the story: http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/20...-mexicans-cope-with-egg-shortage-price-spikes

Eggs in Mexico are a different story than those sold in the US. The yolks are bright orange. Here we see that as a result of free ranging and freshness. The store eggs in Mexico are probably just as old as those sold in the US, but they add marigold to the feed. It makes the yolks look like fresh eggs. It also gives the flesh of the bird a yellowish cast like unto chicken fat. They like them that way there.

They slaughtered millions of factory chickens because of avian flu, but as I recall, Mexico is the land of the feral chicken. I would be more concerned with the feral animals than the factory chickens.