#ostrich eggs

[haveyoueatenthis]

Have you eaten ostrich eggs?

Yes

No, but I’ve heard of this food

I’ve never heard of this food

Voting ended onSep 3, 2025

[medievalistsnet]

Why are there Ostrich Eggs in Medieval Churches? - Medievalists.net

The peculiar practice of placing ostrich eggs in medieval church sanctuaries has left historians and theologians puzzled for centuries. 

[bed-wed-behead-your-fave]

Eat incubate throw an ostrich egg from real life

Why though

Eat Incubate or Throw an ostrich egg from real life.

Eat

Incubate

Throw

Voting ended onAug 18, 2024

[ltwilliammowett]

Two painted and scrimshawed ostrich eggs, mid 19th century

Depict mostly British naval motifs, including a sailor holding a flag on pole; portraits of sailing vessels; a shield backed by flags; cannons and cannonballs; a monument flanked by flags and a sailor's goodbye scene.

[archaeologicalnews]

Discarded ostrich shells provide timeline for our early African ancestors

Archeologists have learned a lot about our ancestors by rummaging through their garbage piles, which contain evidence of their diet and population levels as the local flora and fauna changed over time.

One common kitchen scrap in Africa—shells of ostrich eggs—is now helping unscramble the mystery of when these changes took place, providing a timeline for some of the earliest Homo sapiens who settled down to utilize marine food resources along the South African coast more than 100,000 years ago.

Geochronologists at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Berkeley Geochronology Center (BGC) have developed a technique that uses these ubiquitous discards to precisely date garbage dumps—politely called middens—that are too old to be dated by radiocarbon or carbon-14 techniques, the standard for materials like bone and wood that are younger than about 50,000 years. Read more.

[mumblelard]

eileen or at the zoo where my grandfather worked when i was little, any random kid could stand in a line and pay a dollar, or whatever an unimaginably large amount of money was to a six yearold, and ride an elephant in a circle around a little pen. i hope that elephant's life was not too horrible even though, probably, it was. still, i am glad for the day my grandfather pulled his zoo maintenance man strings to get me a free ride on that elephant

[mrsterlingusa]

Happy Easter to all my Peeps!

[harvestheart]

OSTRICH EGGS AS ART OBJECTS

The entire process of sourcing and crafting ostrich egg goods could take well over a year, making them luxury items in the ancient world. SAIKO / CC BY 3.0

Side Note:  As a food source, one ostrich egg is the equivalent of two dozen from chickens.