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Good thing no one eats raw eggs then

People certainly do eat raw eggs. In the UK, the vast majority of eggs are from vaccinated chickens ("Lion Mark") and are considered safe to eat raw. Raw egg yolks taste much better than cooked egg yolks IMO. And there is an old idea of eating raw eggs as a protein supplement for athletes, eg. Sylvester Stallone does it in Rocky. This is now discredited but eggs are cheap and easily available so people probably still do it.

They're hard to find because most grocery stores don't stock them, but you can actually buy pasteurized eggs at some places in the states too. They pasteurize by putting the eggs in hot water for a few minutes, so it's a simple process that you could actually do at home (but getting it right is tricky).

I have a prairie oyster for breakfast sometimes: one unbeaten raw egg, a few dashes of worcestershire sauce, a little Tabasco, salt and pepper, and then you kindof eat it like it's a raw oyster. It's an acquired taste.

In Western Canada, prairie oysters are cooked bull testicles, so another acquired taste (one I never acquired)

Of course they do. Eating raw eggs has been a fitness fad in the past. But besides things like chocolate mousse and whiskey sours, a lot of people eat their eggs only slightly warmed but not fully cooked.

If you've ever had proper mayonnaise, you've eaten raw egg.

We eat raw egg all the time in our house. Over rice with shoyu and its awesome.

I consider that to be at least partially cooked. Enough to destroy the anti-nutrients? I dunno.

if you eat cake at my house you do, Royal Icing is made using raw egg white :)

That counts as eating raw eggs about as much as gelatin and pork rinds are protein supplements.

Seriously! It's like someone complaining about hamburgers and then enumerating all of the problems with eating raw hamburger.

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