Works vastly better on the plastic cartons than the old (and still current) paper cartons. I remember mom carefully inspecting eggs.

I do something g similar, open the package and kind of pinch them in pairs to see if any are stuck to the carton.

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.

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.

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 ?

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.

also corn flakes

Eh… Turns out a whole lot of people are bigots and do not deserve a platform.

id be more suspicious of a store that would take offense at you checking

I’ve seen them packed in 4s as well. 10 packs are common, and I’ve seen cartons of 15 as well. Dunno who determines that. I swear we had cartons of 12 too but I haven’t seen any in a long while. Am I going crazy?

I keep them in the carton in the fridge anyway and my egg shelf has butter and cheese, so problem solved :p

Supermarket employee doesn’t care. Supermarket employee also checks the eggs before buying them!

If they get offended you can’t check the eggs, they’re trying to sell pre-cracked eggs. Do you want pre-cracked eggs, buddy?

You don’t need to fridge eggs, if they are not opened. The skin under the shell bloom is there to protect the intended chicken from yeast and bacteria.

Edit: ok, the “bloom” outside mostly, if you don’t wash it off. I only know eggs unrefigerated so far. And colored ones, them are cooled …and also nasty and hard to peel.

I’m not supposed to be here today.

Nah I am 100% rummaging at the back for the extra day or two of dated sorry bro.

You can also learn without parents, when you all of a sudden have your hands/shopping cart/shopping bag/car full of raw egg.

1. 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.

2. Or they could open their mouth without thinking much and say something ignorant to a stranger in the grocery store

3. 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

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.

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.

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.

Shop at aldi and you will find entire crates of eggs that are cracked.

well now you just jinxed yourself.

You shop at more expensive stores than me. I swear they employ someone whose sole job is to crack eggs

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

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 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.

Yeah, saw a whole box of cracked eggs last time I bought them.

I’ve never seen a carton of mixed size eggs. Around here it’s always S M L or XL packages