That is very true. Again: Stupid royalists.

I like the "eating the idea of them" explanation the best. It fits with the absurdity.

I'm just kind of absurdly worried that I'm going to get food poisoning from all the raw eggs. Which is stupid, of course, because if I were going to get food poisoning, I a) would have alreadly gotten it by now, and b) would have gotten it from the first couple of bites in any case. I mean, there's also the vast amount of calories, but I don't care nearly as much about that, since this is literally something I do less than once a year.