If you ever smelled a rotten egg, you know it stinks really badly. Unfortunately, sometimes when you fart, it also smells like rotten eggs. That’s because you’re farting hydrogen sulfide from your intestines. This is a sulfur-containing gas made when your gut bacteria break down foods containing sulfur like broccoli.
(https://www.webmd.com/diet/foods-high-in-sulfur)
Other foods that contain a lot of sulfur are cauliflower, cabbage, beans, garlic, onions, fatty meats and for some people milk and other dairy products. Oh yeah, EGGS also contain sulfur.
So let’s be good eggs, meaning helpful and kind. Let’s not behave in ways that make other people say, “He stinks,” or “What she did stinks.” After all, do you want to be considered a rotten egg or even worse, a fart?
Credit: This work has been released into the public domain by its author, Adam Rędzikowski.
If you’d like to fart around and learn more about farts, click here:
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-do-farts-smell
To learn more about hydrogen sulfide facts for kids, click here:
https://kids.kiddle.co/Hydrogen_sulfide#Images_for_kids
Think time questions
Tell me about a time you were tempted to be a rotten egg, but you decided to be a good egg? What happened? Were you glad that you decided to be a good egg?
2 Responses
(Found it!)
When someone in traffic is trying to ease in front of me, take my place in other words, it makes me a little angry. Sometimes a LOT angry! My second-grade mentality of “That’s not fair! You’re cheating!” kicks in. But if I take a breath and let them in (without horn honking or other obnoxious gestures), I feel better, calmer, and more like ‘a good egg’!
Good for you, Linda. You are probably saving yourself a lot of grief. And I happen to believe in karma, so good things will be granted to you because of your acting like a good egg. Why get your emotional state all SCRAMBLED for nothing?