Will this mean an egg mountain ?

[suein56]

If this is introduced in Europe, and eggs have to be sold by weight, does it then mean that all the eggs that do not conform to an exact weight will be discarded?

It seems logical to me to sell natural products by number not weight, so I really don't understand the reasoning behind this proposed legislation.

Do these bods in Strasbourg really have so very little to do that they have to think up ideas like this.

Sue [8-)] [8-)]

[Swissie]

I can't quite see the problem here. Even in the UK eggs are sold by size, small, medium, large and extra large. So I suppose eggs would have several categories with a weight range- would help make recipes more accurate- as there can be quite a difference between a small (pullet) egg and a very large one.

[Théière]

Control control control, for who's benefit? not ours or our health.

So govn't standard eggs will require gov't standard food at just the right amount to make the right size egg and who makes the un-natural food stuffs the big multinationals who also have members on gov't boards and eu parliamentarians.

Interesting programme of ham a few months ago, gov't regulated food and the farmers wanted them to eat from the green fields, even when a gov't minister intervened he was removed from his post by seniors who gave the order for food stuff to be used and who's board were they on?

Burn Strasbourg to the floor with all the swindlers in it!

[Gluestick]

Here's the answer!

In future, eggs may be specified in simply metric terms of reference: x x y x z mms!

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[Gardengirl]

I can buy different types of egg (eg woodland, organic, free range etc) in different sizes in UK supermarkets, and presumably in French ones too. If I want to bake certain things which require exact weight of egg etc I weigh the eggs along with the flour etc.

In France I buy from the egg man at the market; he is from a nearby village, and his eggs are heaped in a big basket. I take my boxes, help myself to the eggs (usually managing to pick large brown eggs) and pay him. Surely he won't have to weigh them! There are still places where you can buy eggs from individuals on their land; maybe they'll have to shut down.

Maybe the people who come up with these ideas have never bought or used eggs or bread rolls; maybe came across the fact that they're sold by number and thought it rather odd. Nothing better to do.

Not quite the same, but it makes me think of the Metric Martyrs.

[Chancer]

Metric Martyrs are alive and well in France.

Recently a stall was selling (punnets of) strawberries for €1.80 (IIRC) per pound, I may not have noticed but for the fact that it was une livre anyway the swindling bu**ers tried their hardest to convince me that 500 grammes was a pound but I wasnt having any of it [6]

I have just returned from the UK nd found that more and more Tesco's and Asda are not marking the weights on many of their products which makes comparison very difficult, two pre-packaged rolls being one example.

[Rob Roy]

I get my eggs each day - sometimes three, sometimes four. Someone somewhere isn't pulling their weight as we have five chickens.

Mind you we are getting our own mini egg mountain so perhaps it's not such a bad thing!

[Swissie]

One of my favourite ever cartoon film 'Chicken Run' - one lovely hen is threatened with the pot as she is not laying daily! Aaarrrgghh.

 I used to sell extra eggs to colleagues at work - we hardly ate any as after a few months, enough was enough. I really miss my chickens - all had a 'personality' and all very different, just like cats or dogs- they were great company when I was working in the garden and they followed me everywhere. Faiza, Martha, Poppy, Donner, Blitzen and the most handsome and gallant little cockerel in the world - Minus. Fell of his perch of old age, at 12.

Away too often, and too many martens, pine and beech and foxes here. But having them when the kids were young was a brilliant experience.

[mint]

I saw a documentary once about how they made sure that every slice of those rectangular pork pies that they used to serve on aeroplanes had a slice of egg with YOLK in the middle.

I won't tell you in case they still serve them and you get put off the things![:D][:P]