- 13 minutes
My little brother actually asked if he could “count the eggs” because he assumed that’s what we were doing. 😄
- 2 hours
My mother taught me this at the store when we were little. The lady next to us got this like…fucking sudden realization on her face and she checked her eggs as well. It was wild lol.
- Janx@piefed.socialEnglish3 hours
The real psychos are the ones just grabbing the top front carton of eggs and never checking it. You must live a much more charmed existence than me!
- 2 hours
I always check at the supermarket because armies of gronks have put their grubby mitts on them, but I don’t bother at the Asian grocery, because they are always perfect there, and they are kept in high rotation, with the staff checking them when they lay them out.
- 3 hours
My grocery store usually has a box or 2 at the top front that’s mostly full of cracked eggs from people swapping. So yeah, psychos. At least grab from the middle of the pile if you aren’t checking each egg.
- 59 minutes
I wonder how many countries sell eggs in dozens vs tens. I know Japan sells 10. I feel like if the dozen concept isn’t in the language it’s kind of a random quantity.
- 1 hour
I just wiggle each one to make sure they move. I buy whatever is cheapest/sale so mix of Styrofoam and cardboard containers. And I probably end up with old eggs so I guess I really am the dunce here. Haha.
- Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Lalo picks up 8 cartons, flicks them, Nacho elaborates
“They bring in a Cisco truck, it’s got 4 pallets of them. I pick one, and they bring the others around to the next store.”
“Uhuh. So. These ones? These are free range. But these - they’re cage-raised.” - 9 hours
Greatest trick I learned is to open the carton, and then gently shake it side to side while watching the eggs. Check the ones that didn’t wiggle.
- TehWorld@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
Works vastly better on the plastic cartons than the old (and still current) paper cartons. I remember mom carefully inspecting eggs.
- 11 hours
One time in like 2014 I opened the eggs for a glance to check for brokens at a Stater Bros outside San Diego and an older guy behind me said “yeah, those are eggs, move along” I just turned around and said “yes, but are they cracked?” and then walked off. Hopefully his rude and impatient ass felt stupid.
Anyway, now whenever anyone in my family checks the eggs, someone in the family will, without fail, say “yeah, those are eggs, move along”. It’s our little running joke and I wish that guy knew that we’re still making fun of him 12 years later.
- 4 hours
One of the nice things about getting old is that you just no longer give a flying fuck. If some guy said that to me, I guarantee my IMMEDIATE response would be a contemptuous “Go fuck yourself, asshole,” and if he didn’t like it, we can go. I wouldn’t mind kicking some MAGA ass, because you know he’s MAGA, and Old Man Strength is real.
- curbstickle@anarchist.nexusEnglish3 hours
Oh see I’d probably say “Why yes they are eggs, good eye! Well done” and walk away. Like you’d say to a 3 year old.
- 3 hours
I was with you about the not giving a crap part, up until you decided you wanted to fight a random stranger over a minor inconvenience.
- 9 hours
This is learned behavior though. It’s not obvious. I learned it from my parents. He obviously didn’t.
- 7 hours
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Even if not learned through experience, it can also be learned through critical thinking. One could take a moment to ponder why someone is checking the eggs and could easily arrive at the conclusion they’re checking for broken ones.
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Or they could open their mouth without thinking much and say something ignorant to a stranger in the grocery store
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Or they can demonstrate the greater depths of their ignorance and make a post about it on a social media platform showing they had time to figure it out but couldn’t despite it being on their mind the entire time.
Sadly, much of our random interactions and popular public discourse are driven by #2 and #3
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- 3 hours
You can also learn without parents, when you all of a sudden have your hands/shopping cart/shopping bag/car full of raw egg.
- 2 hours
But global warming hasn’t finished pre-heating yet, so they won’t cook properly.
- Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
It’s obvious the first time you get a carton of eggs home and find a cracked or missing egg, or have thought for two seconds about the notorious fragility of eggs.
12 hoursI learned a quick tip from an old lady many years ago. Open the carton and use your first finger just to tip (slide) each egg a bit so you know it is not stuck to the bottom of carton. Quick and easy.
- 4 hours
Yep, that’s the move. You don’t have to pick up each egg and inspect it. If it rocks, it’s good.
If there’s just one or two, I look for the bad dozen, which is usually there in the case, off to the side. Open that and replace the good eggs from that carton with the bad ones in your carton. Now you have 12 good eggs, and eventually the store will have a carton of 12 cracked eggs.
You still get dirty looks from dickheads, though, which I enjoy. I’m always pleased to piss off judgemental Karens.
I do the put all the bad eggs in 1 carton too. Fuck the ones who glare. If they had any brains they would see we are helping. If not switched and consolidated there would be a lot more bad cartons tossed as waste
- 9 hours
I used to do this but I got burned once or twice, wound up with cracked eggs that hadn’t leaked enough to stick or hadn’t stuck, for whatever reason.
- 12 hours
I just look at the bottom of a closed carton first - if there’s a crack it is rare that it didn’t leak
- 11 hours
Only works on paper cartons. Shouldn’t be buying Styrofoam but still.
- 10 hours
I have never seen anything other than carton boxes for eggs here in Norway. This comment actually baffled me that they came in anything other somewhere.
- 4 hours
Same here in Sweden, there are som variations on what kind of carton boxes but never seen any plastic or styrofoam.
- 9 hours
Ours come in a clear plastic vacuum formed container, compressed paper carton, or Styrofoam, depending on the brand.
- 4 hours
That’s just fucked up. Clear plastic seems like the worst possible container as it gives little or no protection, and is obviously plastic which the world only needs less of.
- 1 hour
It is the worst. The only pro is you can visible see if they are broken without opening anything.
- Soggy@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
There’s like six different egg providers at most grocery stores around me. I have choices.
- 3 hours
Only one of them is the cheap regular eggs, though. The others are organic or free range or otherwise differentiated in some way other than just the foam vs paper packaging.
I have to open and see if there are no cracks on top as well. OC I guess.
- 9 hours
Well of course, that’s just normal caution but don’t bother if you already see a wet spot, try another carton
- 9 hours
Have I been making my omelettes without walnut shell fragments wrong this whole time???
- 13 hours
I was in my 30s when I learned that intensely itchy and stingy mouth is not part of the flavor profile of walnuts and I’m just mildly allergic.
- 9 hours
I’m obsessed with peanut butter. I’m also allergic to it. My constant consumption as a child helped reduce my once-moderate allergy to a mild one, according to my allergist.
Which is why it was so wild for me when I temporarily became totally anosmic when I caught COVID. My mom has been completely anosmic the majority of my life, and as someone who loves to cook for her, I took advantage of my situation to quickly taste as many ingredients as possible and come up with recipes that would be more exciting for her.
After trying the entire source rack, fresh garlic, salsas, hot sauces, pepper, lemons and lemon rinds, I got to peanut butter. Suddenly, my mouth and throat were on fire and there was an inescapable flavor of wood. That’s when I remembered that I’m still allergic to peanut butter.
- ulterno@programming.devEnglish11 hours
I didn’t like walnuts,
until I ate a pack that didn’t have the oil extracted from it.
- 5 hours
Okay, but let’s be realistic about that. Let’s say it’s worst case scenario and 2 eggs are broken, how does that affect me? Eggs represent like 0.001% of my budget, if half my eggs were cracked, I wouldn’t notice much.
- 5 hours
You are ok with being ripped off is what you are saying. I’m not going to argue with you over whether this is smart or not.
- 4 hours
My point is a single egg is less than $1, with the cheap ones it’s less than 50 cents. I don’t remember the last time I made a different decision to save 50 cents.
- 4 hours
You want to take broken, leaky eggs home, where they will leak all your other groceries, and leak all over stuff in fridge? And if they leaked in your car, it’s going to rot, and make your car smell like the worst farts you’ve ever experienced.
It’s like a Dirty Bomb, you’ll be cleaning it up for weeks.
Or you can be a normal person, and demand that when you pay for 12 unbroken eggs, you take home 12 unbroken eggs. Not because you can’t afford it if there only 10, but because you don’t let ANYONE take advantage of you in the marketplace, especially big companies that are trying to rip you off at every turn. You don’t accept it, you fight back, and stick THEM with their inferior products, not yourself.
What a loser attitude. Gross.
- NottaLottaOcelot@lemmy.caEnglish3 hours
But if I’m going to pay the same amount of money, why would I not put down the carton with cracked eggs and buy a different one that contains no cracked eggs? I may not starve if an egg is cracked, but I’m going to have to pay the store the same amount, and due diligence allows me to get 12 eggs for that rather than only 11 or 10.
- 4 hours
No, he’s just too much of a loser to stand up for himself when he’s being ripped off. He’d rather pretend that he can afford it, and it doesn’t bother him.
- 4 hours
Most people don’t have 1.000.000 Euro to spend each month. If you are here to brag about your wealth it makes you sound even more like a douchbag.
- 4 hours
Okay, you caught me, I didn’t do the math. If you make minimum wage in America, that’s $1160/month gross. An egg costs on average 50 cents. So a single broken egg works out to 0.04% of their monthly budget. I don’t see a broken egg much, less than once a year, so maybe it worth dividing that number by 12.
- 2 hours
Subtract rent, bills, gas, savings for maintenance, etc.
Your food budget is much smaller than $1160/month, so why not take <10 seconds to make sure you aren’t overpaying?
Plus it’s just annoying having to go back to the store sooner because you have less eggs than you needed.
