On Fri 28 Jan 2005 06:50:38a, Dee Randall wrote in rec.food.cooking:

>
> "Bob" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Dee wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone used the "pasteurized eggs" to make mayonnaise. I've not
>>> even seen in in grocery stores, but on the food channels they talk
>>> about it as it is a common item.
>>
>> Yes, and it was FANTASTIC! Unfortunately, my grocery store stopped
>> carrying pasteurized eggs back in September or October last year, so I
>> haven't made mayonnaise since. Didn't make eggnog over the holidays,
>> either. :-(
>>
>> I filled out one of those supermarket survey forms where you list items
>> you WISH the store carried, and actually got a phone call from a
>> regional representative for Safeway. In our conversation, she claimed
>> that the store would start carrying the eggs again, but they never did.
>> They've never been carried by any other stores in the area.
>>
>> Bob
>
> I'm so sorry when this happens. Since you gave pasteurized eggs a good
> recommendation, I will have to ask Martin's (which is a subsidiary, I
> think) of the big Giants supermarket. I asked them to please put King
> Arthur flour back on the shelves, and they did!!! When I see the manager
> bagging groceries, I always thank him.
>
> Still, pasteurized eggs! After they are pasteurized, they are still
> runny, right? And they look just like a raw egg, right? I only tried
> the whites in a container once and I barely made it to the bathroom.
>
> To me, its like eating anchovies. I love the idea of it, will buy
> salted ones and leave them in the refr. I will buy sardines and then
> throw them out -- I don't know why I can't get past this.
> Dee

I understand that. Maybe it's the setting... When I was a kid I had a
favorite aunt who had four children, and she and my uncle both worked full
time. She had little spare time for me, but every so often she would set
aside some "special" time for me, gather up some special foods, and we'd
drive to the park or to the beach and sit and talk and eat. She would
often buy a can of smoked clams or smoked oysters and I, the 11 y.o.,
thought it was so exotic and scarfed them down along with good crakers and
cheeses. Nowadays, if I occasional buy a can, most of them get tossed out.

Wayne