in search of perfect

One of the best things about growing your own food, is that you get the truth about food, not the perfect unblemished versions the shops would have you believe in. I thought of this today when I collected the eggs, and found a very long and pointy egg.  The hen that was not laying has started again (guess all that muttering of the words ‘chicken casserole’ paid off) , and often at the start you get some odd ones. Double yolkers, tiny no yolkers, and mostly mis-shapes.  It’s still an egg.  In a commercial set up it would not get past inspection.. it would be sold to go into cooking, mayonnaise etc. An so the shopper is presented with uniformly sized perfect eggs. They can sit in the trolley next to the perfect apples, and unblemished courgettes.

I don’t blame the shopper.. how are they to know if they never see anything other than perfect?  Of course, it becomes circular, as then they don’t want anything other than perfect.

But the truth is eggs, veg, (like people), are not always perfect.  We only expect it ’cause we are told to.  carrots are not always straight, eggs sometimes have lumps and bumps, apples sometimes have spots, cabbages can be a little nibbled.  and I celebrate these things as they are all signs of properly grown normal food, - signs of a lack of chemicals and nothing being wasted as it does not look right

besides, where would the fun be if you could not laugh over a funny pointy egg, or a rude parsnip..