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Weird Encounter

Carmie — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:53:26 GMT

I have been Christmas baking since early this morning.

A close friend of my neighbor who knows us well, stopped to talk to my husband in our driveway.

He invited her in to say hello to me. She said my cookies looked delicious and I offered her some. She said she was lactose intolerant and couldn't have any dairy.

I make a Cooke with almond paste that has no dairy and said she was welcome to try. She tasted a cookie and said it was delicious and asked for the recipe.

I gave it to her and she noticed egg whites in the ingredients. Then she got upset and said my cookies had dairy.

To make a long story short, she thought and still thinks eggs are dairy. OMG!

Anyway, she'll get over it. Some people are uneducated. The cookies are gluten free, so they're for me.

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spumoni99 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:57:07 GMT

I guess since they sell eggs in the dairy case but come on. Tell her to google it.

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Bookplate — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:01:38 GMT

Those darn egg-laying cows are taking over the supermarkets.

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cindyNC — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:12:36 GMT

You'd think w/the cows helping out the hens that eggs would be much less expensive.

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JoyFilled Warrior — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 22:37:48 GMT

@Carmie wrote:
I have been Christmas baking since early this morning.

A close friend of my neighbor who knows us well, stopped to talk to my husband in our driveway.

He invited her in to say hello to me. She said my cookies looked delicious and I offered her some. She said she was lactose intolerant and couldn't have any dairy.

I make a Cooke with almond paste that has no dairy and said she was welcome to try. She tasted a cookie and said it was delicious and asked for the recipe.

I gave it to her and she noticed egg whites in the ingredients. Then she got upset and said my cookies had dairy.

To make a long story short, she thought and still thinks eggs are dairy. OMG!

Anyway, she'll get over it. Some people are uneducated. The cookies are gluten free, so they're for me.

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ouch.. ouch.. ouch.. @Carmie

Sounds like a mistake I might make when there's too much "life" going on, & my head isnt fully engaged on perhaps culinary details??.

(You are so generous to share your talented, hard working wares! )

I can imagine the wonderfully emitting, baking scent coming from your home/kitchen!!

BTW, my Mom used to be the Queen of Baking an incredible amount of very varied, mounds & mounds of Christmas cookies, starting as far early as Halloween sometimes & big-freezer-chest, freezing them (if there were any/many left!)

Years later, turns out, my brothers & sister were ALSO plentifully helping themselves to these frozen cookies too! And here, I thought it was just me being the only "Christmas Cookie Piggy." Nope!!

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Kachina624 — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:36:21 GMT

@Carmie. Maybe because there are chickens in the barn with the cows? Appalling ignorance.

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San Antonio Gal — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:43:53 GMT

I was expecting something more by the title of this thread.

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Desertdi — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:50:24 GMT

Architectural challenge.....the chillers are all on the same wall

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Carmie — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 19:56:25 GMT

@JoyFilled Warrior When I was growing up, our house was Christmas headquarters. We had hundreds of visitors for about two weeks at Christmas time every weekend.

Threre were 11 kids in my father's family and when his mother passed, he bought the " family house." All of his Siblings and their large brood of kids visited.

My mother and mostly my older sister baked dozens of cookies. We probably had two dozen different varieties. Our house had a summer kitchen that wasn't heated and the cookies and drinks were stored there to keep them cold.

I used to go out there and help myself to cookies on the sly, and while I was out there, I would grab a Franks black cherry wishnick soda as well. We only were allowed soft drinks when we had company.

They were fun days with sweet memories.

I bake for Christmas, but over the years, I don't bake as much. I can't eat most baked goods and my husband has a huge sweet tooth. Yesterday, he ate a whole nut roll by himself. It could have fed about 10 people.

I used to bake early and freeze, but by Christmas, not much was left, so I wait until a few days before.

There's nothing like the sweet memories of Christmas of when you were a child. I am glad you have happy memories too.

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drizzellla — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:08:04 GMT

@San Antonio Gal wrote:
I was expecting something more by the title of this thread.

You don't think that "egg laying cows" that Bookplate mentioned aren't a weird encounter?

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We rescue cats — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:12:27 GMT

Hopefully her lack of reaction to the 'lactose' will let her know that eggs are safe for her.

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qualitygal — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 20:53:30 GMT

There is the term "dairy cows". Not dairy eggs. I hope she clears this up for herself, and it was very kind of you to offer her the cookies.

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faeriemoon — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:31:08 GMT

@San Antonio Gal wrote:
I was expecting something more by the title of this thread.

Not an alien in sight.

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ValuSkr — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 21:37:49 GMT

Did she suffer any repercussions from the egg whites?

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Venezia — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:40:31 GMT

With some people, it wouldn't matter how much proof you offered them.

People often have fixed, incorrect ideas in their heads and nothing will convince them otherwise.

I suspect this lady is one of them.

(But at least I know now where my neighbor in the farmhouse gets all her fresh eggs from!)

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SilleeMee — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:25:07 GMT

Yes. Some people believe that eggs are a dairy product.

Some people believe that pickles grow in the ocean.

That tofu is a mushroom.

List goes on.

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SilleeMee — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:35:48 GMT

@monicakm wrote:
@SilleeMee

They are called Sea Pickles. I know you've heard of them.

@monicakm

Not that kind of pickle. I'm talking about dill pickles in a jar. Some people think they come from the ocean.

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Carmie — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:18:33 GMT

@San Antonio Gal wrote:
I was expecting something more by the title of this thread.

I never said this weird encounter was of the third kind. It was just an everyday weird encounter.

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Carmie — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 01:23:15 GMT

@ValuSkr wrote:
Did she suffer any repercussions from the egg whites?

I doubt it. I would think if you had a real lactose intolerance you would know which foods were safe to eat or not.

Who knows? I normally would have argued and tried to convince her but wasn't in the mood. I had to try to keep myself from laughing. Maybe she'll figure it out.

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goldensrbest — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 02:49:39 GMT

I would have asked her ,have you ever seen cows laying eggs.