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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.
Works vastly better on the plastic cartons than the old (and still current) paper cartons. I remember mom carefully inspecting eggs.
Oh wow plastic cartons for eggs are still a thing? What a total waste of oil
I do something g similar, open the package and kind of pinch them in pairs to see if any are stuck to the carton.
But they are in a carton so this doesn’t happen?
Those cartons are not meteor strike proof. I have bought cracked eggs in cartons several times before. That’s when I started inspecting the contents before buying them.
They can crack before/while they get in the carton. Those cartons are handled by various people, transported under varying conditions. Even if they get to the shelf unscathed, any other customer might accidentally knock them off and just put them back like nothing happened.
Have you really never had the misfortune of encountering one cracked in the carton?
In my experience there is usually a small pile of cartons with cracked eggs set off to the side of the shelf in the refrigerator in the store.
It does happen from time to time. Now what? Is your world now flipped upside down? Are you gonna cry? Like a baby? Are you having a little baby cry now? About the cracked eggs? How nothing is perfect? How life is fragile? Are you crying like a tiny little baby now?
This is learned behavior though. It’s not obvious. I learned it from my parents. He obviously didn’t.
I feel like the poster might have been aware of the actual purpose but still wanted to spread a little enjoyable sillyness by comparing it to movie scenes where a money briefcase is checked out.
You can also learn without parents, when you all or a sudden have your hands/shopping cart/shopping bag/car is full of raw egg.
So what? Then you have a delicious cart, bag, and car…
But global warming hasn’t finished pre-heating yet, so they won’t cook properly.
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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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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.
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 ?
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
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
1212, or 66*4.
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.
I can sell you cracked eggs if you just want to skip the surprise
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.
Thank you for buying the cracked eggs.
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.
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.
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.
“It’s a banana, Michael. How much could it cost, ten dollars?”
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.
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.
Just look before you buy, you lazy fuck.
Or don’t. its nice if someone buys the dud packs
Tru
I mean, it’s one egg, Michael. What could it cost? $1?
Look at Mr Money-Bags over here
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.
Piccolo the instrument? Or the green guy?
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.
I wonder if Howtobasic also checks eggs in the supermarket.
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.
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.”“Meme”
yeah, you are egg, move along
In defense of walnuts they’re very tasty and great in fudge.
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Walnut bread is pretty great too.
not as much in an omelet though
They do help mask the shell fragments though.
Have I been making my omelettes without walnut shell fragments wrong this whole time???
Sorry we be imprecise. The walnuts help mask the flavor of the vs-50 antipersonnel mine shells
Wait, was I supposed to open the walnut carton to see if they were broken?
😅
I like most nuts, but not walnuts.
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.
My mother too. One allergy I’m glad I don’t have, I like big nuts
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.
What’s anosmic, precious?
No sense of smell. Sometimes called nose-blind
Thank you!
So am I (also kiwis)
Pecans for the win!
Pecans are life
I didn’t like walnuts,
until I ate a pack that didn’t have the oil extracted from it.
And Shish Andaz
Screenshot from Twitter is not a meme. Please, mods, delete it.
I was just going to scroll by but I upvoted it just because of your comment
Tell me what you think a meme is and I’ll tell you why you’re wrong.
Me twice
A French grandmother
Is that Luffy? 🥸
Howdy,
In case anyone is actually curious, that is Sophie from the movie Howl’s Moving Castle. The movie is only passingly similar to the book by the same name, but they’re both fun media.
Cheers!
Wait a minute, does that mean that Benjamin Franklin was canonically a meme lord?
Oh no yeah you nailed it
T…
Twitter?
Yes Twitter
It’s Tumblr you walnut
T…
Tumblr? /s
Actually, it’s a screenshot from Tumblr
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.
I’m a gongorgernut
Had this comment on Reddit today:
“No comer war is nut”
Obviously counterintelligence; they just had firework. Dumb. Countercells: cine to my apartment, on schedule m
Mode podcasts
Frys. Modern wight.
My little brother actually asked if he could “count the eggs” because he assumed that’s what we were doing. 😄
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.
Yeah, saw a whole box of cracked eggs last time I bought them.
You’re not supposed to drop them.
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!
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
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
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.
well now you just jinxed yourself.
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.
