memes

My little brother actually asked if he could "count the eggs" because he assumed that's what we were doing. 😄

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.

Life would be so boring, if people stopped putting up every dumb thought they have online for our amusement.

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.

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)

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.

I wonder if Howtobasic also checks eggs in the supermarket.

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.

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.”