Glatt, Glatt Kosher Eggs

In 1937 Papa bought a chicken farm in New Jersey for $5,000 and put $500 down. It had been empty all along during the Depression. After WWII he also sold real estate to "refugees" who came over and could not speak English. The Jewish Agricultural Society and HIAS financed them. Many did not last long, but there was one very enterprising fellow that had an egg route in New York.

We were selling eggs for 40 cents a dozen and he got 80 cents for kosher eggs. Since all commercial eggs are candled, not having a blood spot was normal for the trade. What made the eggs kosher was that they were not handled on shabes. That means the eggs were not gathered, cleaned, packed, transported, or sold on shabes.

For $1.20 you could have Glatt Kosher eggs. The explanation given was that chicken feed contains both powdered milk and meat scraps. The feed chickens eat is transformed into the eggs and that makes them treyf. So these chickens were fed only powdered milk.

For $1.60 you got Glatt, Glatt Kosher eggs, the top of the line. The meat scraps fed came from kosher meat.

I have long since left the farm in New Jersey and have no contacts in the New York ultra religious community. Whether this enterprising marketer has expanded or is out of business is beyond my knowledge. Perhaps someone who is currently knowledgeable can help us out.