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Why do we eat chicken eggs, duck eggs, and quail eggs, but not turkey eggs?

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53% Informative

Turkey eggs are larger than chicken eggs with a thicker shell.

They're similar to eating chicken eggs only a little richer.

Turkeys aren't nearly as prolific as chickens.

The price of a turkey egg is prohibitive, at around $3 per egg.

Some people who have eaten turkey eggs have shared their thoughts on how they taste.

Every now and then during the warm months of the year she leaves me breakfast somewhere around the yard.

And then, just for funsies, there's this little anecdote about those "technically edible" emu eggs: "Back in elementary school we had a teacher that raised Emus . She would always make delicious cakes but would tell no one how she made them".

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38

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English

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26

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