WFAA covered an egg-celent range of stories about the breakfast staple.
DALLAS — The importance of eggs and their place in our daily diet is of utmost concern right now as an egg shortage has kept shelves barren and costs booming.
But the shortage is only the most recent event concerning the breakfast staple that seems to find its way into news coverage.
Vintage WFAA stories from the SMU Jones Film Library prove the timeless reporter tactic of cooking an egg on a sidewalk during triple-digit temperatures was being served as far back as in 1967 when one intrepid Channel 8 journalist prepared lunch in 104-degree heat in Downtown Dallas.
Six years later, the President of the National Commission on Egg Nutrition came to Dallas to refute health concerns about “cackleberries” (aka, hen eggs) from the American Heart Association.
“The American diet is downgraded a great deal if eggs are limited in the diet,” said President Blanton Smith. “I personally eat about 5 eggs a day and my cholesterol does not increase.”
But perhaps the cutest egg story WFAA has covered came from reporter Doug Fox in 1975.
When a Fort Worth family’s pet hen passed away, she left behind eight eggs which the family put into an electric frying pan.
Not to fry them, but to incubate them.
A short time later, one of the eggs hatched giving the family their newest pet, a little chick named Rex.
