How are you cooking the eggs at home? Hard boiled, over easy, scrambled, .....? |
I feel like this whole thread is a weird fever dream. |
This thread has historic potential. |
Have you tried the cartons of pasteurized eggs / "egg product" from the grocery store? I'm curious if you'd react to those like fresh eggs, or like fast food eggs. |
The entire week I ate breakfast there 3 or 4 times. There were days I ate a ham/turkey sandwich for breakfast instead. |
If you bake something with eggs from a carton, do you get sick from it? Like muffins or cake? If not, the answer is that you are allergic to an egg protein that is denatured after being at high temperature, and the eggs you are making at home and reacting to are undercooked, or have enough bits that are undercooked to make you sick. There are two main types of protein in raw eggs that most allergic people react to. One is denatured at high heat, making it tolerable. The other is still allergenic after being heated. That’s why there’s a distinction between being allergic to all eggs or being able to tolerated cooked eggs but not eat raw/undercooked eggs. |
If you didn't get sick, how was the vacation ruined? |
If you were sick after eating breakfast there, why would you return? And if you were so sick you had to stay in the room, why are you eating breakfast at all? |
Makes sense now after reading that. |
No. I do not get sick eating McDonalds or Burger King breakfast. I stayed in all week because I was sure I was going to get sick but it never happened. |
OP, are you from somewhere other than the USA? I ‘ew someone who grew up in a European country where eggs did not need to be refrigerated (because, unlike in the US, the eggs were not washed before being sold).
When she came here, she didn’t realize that refrigeration was necessary. So, she was keeping her eggs at room temp, and got quite sick once. Someone else I know didn’t realize for a long time that eggs could go bad! (How she missed this, I can’t say; there is definitely an expiration date on cartons). She thought she was allergic to eggs, but turns out, she’d just had a few experiences with eggs too old to be eaten. I should add that both these women have advanced degrees from world-renowned universities. Smart in many regards, but not in matters related to the American egg industry! |
+1 so pp never actually got sick, but their health anxiety immobilized them to the point where they couldn’t leave their room. This one day of not feeling great ruined an entire week? And they blame BK? |
So you ruined your own vacation. |
What kind of "sick" do you get from regular eggs?
And the burger king story hurts my brain. I guess I'm glad you figured out you can eat that kind, but if you went in thinking you were allergic to eggs, why did you get the eggs at all? Why not pancakes or a plain English muffin? Go to an allergist. The above poster is right about the proteins in the food and how they're processed that changes potential for reaction. |
Once you realized BK was the only option for the whole trip, why didn't you then go out of your way to find a store and pick up some fruit or bread or whatever for the following days breakfasts instead of going to BK and then sitting in your room waiting to get sick all day? The long drive would have been annoying but once you stocked up you would have been fine to have a regular trip. |