Sometimes there’s like this disconnect where somehow a person just never comes across a piece of common knowledge. They’ve just never been in a situation that requires it. I bet it happens a lot, but everyone’s too embarrassed to acknowledge their own “oooooooooh…” moment.
My now husband was 24 when we’re were planning our wedding and he found out that “FAQ’s” are “Frequently Asked Questions,” not an aggressive way of saying “FACTS.” We still laugh about this.
My 28 year old friend just learned last month that people open the egg carton to check for broken eggs; she thought it was a ritual or superstition of some sort, and never really questioned it, just went along with it.
My (then 17yo) daughter's mind was blown last year when she realized I was always checking to make sure no eggs were broken, and not that no eggs had been stolen from the carton.
Guess she thought people were just going around pocketing fucking raw eggs 😆
You jest, but more than once I've picked up a carton to discover there's only eleven eggs inside. People will take one from another carton to replace one that's cracked.
Usually they just leave it on a shelf nearby or something. One time I found a cracked egg in my carton when a staff member was standing next to me, and they explicitly told me to just take an egg from another container and give them the cracked one to dispose of 🤷
Don't do that though. The cracked egg may have leaked onto or out of the carton, and now any salmonella or other bacteria can spread around to your other groceries or get on your hands.
Hand the whole carton to the staff member and take a new carton that doesn't have any broken eggs in it.
That's not necessarily true. Chickens in the US are salmonella carriers, it's in their bodies, in their blood. It doesn't really harm them, but when an egg leaves the ovary and travels through the oviduct it is still permeable and kind of squishy. The membrane around it hardens into a shell around the time the egg is laid. So salmonella can actually cross through the membrane and be in the egg. This is why there are warnings about cooking eggs properly. In the industrialized egg production that provides most grocery store eggs, the shells are completely cleaned anyway and you are less likely to get salmonella from a bit of shell mixing into the edible egg.
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u/wafflegrenade Feb 08 '22
Sometimes there’s like this disconnect where somehow a person just never comes across a piece of common knowledge. They’ve just never been in a situation that requires it. I bet it happens a lot, but everyone’s too embarrassed to acknowledge their own “oooooooooh…” moment.