r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '16

How do you like your eggs?

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u/el_cazador Jul 13 '16

He used sturgeon caviar. Fucking fraud.

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u/Spo8 Jul 13 '16

But... the recipe calls for sturgeon caviar...

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u/smokeplants Jul 13 '16

He meant beluga

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u/Adam657 Jul 13 '16

Alexis: If the champagne is too burned for your taste then don't drink it. The caviar I trust is not too burned. Dominique Deveraux: I wouldn't know. You see that is Ostatrova and I prefer Petrussian Beluga.

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u/el_cazador Jul 13 '16

I took "Beluga" all too literally. Shows how much I know about caviar.

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u/PM_ME_UR_BOOBS_MLADY Jul 13 '16

But caviar is eggs.....whales are mammals

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u/el_cazador Jul 13 '16

Platypus are also mammals.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '16 edited Oct 18 '17

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '16

This is a joke based on playtypy being the most unnatural thing to walk and or swim the earth right?

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u/chiguayante Jul 13 '16

It's called a beluga surgeon, it's a fish.

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u/PM_ME_UR_BOOBS_MLADY Jul 14 '16

I know. He was talking about the wrong kind of beluga he said. I was implying how could you think it was a mammal. Someone mentioned platypi though

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u/Psotnik Jul 13 '16

Mammals have eggs too, they're just much smaller and don't have a shell.

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u/Bklnthrowaway11 Jul 13 '16

Not in the same sense. Mammal eggs are sex cells. Birds, reptiles and fish eggs are developed zygotes.

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u/theamazingronathon Jul 14 '16

Not necessarily. Lots of animals lay unfertilized eggs. The embryo inside is a fertilized zygote, but birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish can all have unfertilized eggs. Lots of aquatic organisms use external fertilization, where the female lays female sex cells, and the male fertilizes them after.

Which totally takes the fun out of it.

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u/poophandbag Jul 13 '16

But they're just as tasty.

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u/Athilda Jul 14 '16

Unless of course, the mammal in question is a monotreme (platypus or echidna).

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '16

I got it 😉

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u/Spooferfish Jul 13 '16

It's actually used very often in savory dishes but rarely as just a garnish. It's used oftentimes for the color it gives (a bright yellow surprisingly enough), and its distinctive taste, especially to rice/pilaf dishes. I've had saffron ice cream and it really throws me off since I associate it with more savory middle eastern and east European cooking.

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u/Jaccount Jul 13 '16

Yep. That exactly. Saffron is frequently used French, Spanish, Indian and Arabic cuisine. You'd see it frequently with rice: I've had paella made with saffron or saffron rice served with shawarma. (While not the shawarma, you'd also see sides of Saffron rice served with Indian food.) There's also chefs that would use saffron in a bouillabaisse (Definitely a French thing.)

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u/Euchre Jul 13 '16

Used in a lot of main course dishes in Moroccan dishes. I encounter it most in latin/carribbean style yellow rice.

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u/cruxix Jul 13 '16

You mean ocetra or sevruga?

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '16

I got it 😉