The other day Costco noticed a single cracked egg at the checkout and I stood around afterward for ten minutes waiting for a replacement. Like, I appreciate the customer service, but I was fine with the cracked egg. There were 127 others intact.
wow, they sell eggs in powers of two ?
edit do you routinely buy eggs by the hundreds ? is that 8 times 16 eggs ? 16 times 8 eggs ?
time was you’d get a gross (144) but we got shrinkflated i guess
144 ? is that 9 times 16 ? I’m trying to figure out the carton shape
1212, or 66*4.
i remember them coming in five layers last time i bought one. been a while since i did a sunrise picnic in the park, that’s the next generation’s job now.
they stack eggs in 3D ?!
4D if you watch me eat them
Are people actually having issues of cracked eggs? I have never in my whole life ran into, or heard of anyone else running into a cracked egg in a carton.
Shop at aldi and you will find entire crates of eggs that are cracked.
German efficiency. That way you can check that all the eggs are full, so you don’t get an empty one.
Yep, had happened to me twice recently after not happening for a long time. It’s like the seatbelt in the car, most of the time you don’t need it, but when you do, you’re happy that you did.
And not just look, wiggle each egg to verify it haven’t cracked in the bottom which will make it stick to the package
Yep. Eggs and seatbelts, Totally as important.
Gotta get the protein!
Yeah, saw a whole box of cracked eggs last time I bought them.
You’re not supposed to drop them.
It happens. I can’t say it’s super common, but even with the protection of the cartons, accidents happen. Hell, I’ve checked in store, and had an egg crack on the way home from braking hard. Only once, but it shows that the right forces in the right way can cause cracks.
I haven’t bought eggs in years now (yay for my hen!), but I’d see it maybe twice a year or so
I don’t want to be behind you when you brake.
I wouldn’t either tbh. Small car, great brakes, and I don’t speed. So when I hit them to prevent a problem, that fucker stops.
You shop at more expensive stores than me. I swear they employ someone whose sole job is to crack eggs
Wow. Where I shop, egg cracking is only one of the jobs of the guy, he also spills sugar, dents cans, removes one soda can tab per pack, bruises tomatoes, pretty much all these jobs.
Oh yeah it’s a big store here. Also we got a powerful union, one job, one dude. I was the sugar spiller for a season, but I kept getting ants in bed no matter how much I washed and changed sheets.
I really gotta stop eating there, but maybe next job I’ll have less ants
I run into it often, but I live in a rural place where eggs are commonly sold in huge quantities (like bulk 5 and 1/2 dozen cartons). Usually I’ll find another carton that’s got cracked eggs as well, and swap for some good ones.
Well they’re protected by paper mache. So yeah cracked eggs are a problem. I don’t want to deal with that and I can avoid dealing with that by opening the box.
They started pretending they could avoid people opening the carton by just using flimsy clear shit plastic cartons here. Still gotta take out the cracked eggs though, just don’t have to open the carton to find em anymore which is nice
well now you just jinxed yourself.
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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.
I mean like, imagine no one taught you when you were a kid, right?
That’s how I feel about electric kettles. They’re so damn useful.
Wicked useful but crazy high current drain, don’t plug one and an instant pot into the same circuit.
I like to preheat water for my electric stove in my electric kettle. So what if the microwave is also running? Ahh, the power of 230V.
Or use a microwave, or hair drier on the same circuit as one at the same time. Unless you’re in the kitchen I guess. Learned those lessons the hard way.
My little brother actually asked if he could “count the eggs” because he assumed that’s what we were doing. 😄
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.
Old eggs peel better though and I have yet to encounter an egg actually turning bad, so it might be the better deal even.
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!
At the moment where i am there’s some shrinkflation nonsense where sometimes they’ll lower the “average total” weight on the “mixed” size eggs but change nothing on the packaging (apart from the weight, on the bottom).
So I’m checking to see if I’ve got a pack of tiny eggs that just rattle around in the packaging.
But i do a rattle check first.
If I’ve got the tiny eggs i just buy a different brand instead (until they change it back)
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.
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Denmark here, depending on supermarket and brand, you usually get them in 6, 8 and 10. Less common is 4 and they are usually large eggs. 15 and 30 is also a thing but not something I look for so I might underrepresent them in my comment
Where I live in Colombia, we can get eggs in dozens, but it’s more common to find packs of 15 or 30 in the supermarket.
If I shop at the mom-and-pop tienda on my block, they’ll sell me exactly the number of eggs I ask for.
This is learned behavior though. It’s not obvious. I learned it from my parents. He obviously didn’t.
Vincent…………are we happy?
Rule
Used to work at a grocery store and it is definitely rational to peek inside to make sure the goods are all intact. Even the fancy expensive eggs that are packaged like Fort Knox come in broken sometimes. This didn’t bother us.
Please don’t block the whole case while you open carton after carton swapping eggs to get the perfect dozen. Please don’t make a mess of the shelf digging all the way to the back for the freshest eggs/milk. You might find something a couple days fresher, but you are slowing everyone else down. There’s not a magic carton that won’t expire for eight months back there.
Also, don’t ask the stocker if they have anything fresher In Back. The back stock isn’t some magic endless space where we hide all of the freshest/best stuff. It’s probably cramped and organized so that the newest stock is rotated to the back/bottom of a stack, so digging through it just for you is a big waste of everyone’s time that will potentially fuck with inventory.
I used to laugh at the segment of Clerks that rants about what I just did, but after working at a few different stores, people are absolutely like this.
Nah I am 100% rummaging at the back for the extra day or two of dated sorry bro.
Eggs are probably one of the few grocery store items, where opening the packaging and checking them before purchase is a must do.
also corn flakes
Life would be so boring, if people stopped putting up every dumb thought they have online for our amusement.
