re: I just read the ingredients on a carton of eggs and it said this...

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You know what a chicken egg looks like. Especially at the store.

It doesn't look like a Duck egg, or a goose egg, or a robin's egg, or a quail egg.

Butter will just say butter. Unless it comes from a different source, which will be labeled.

Maybe on some labels it may say cow's milk, but you are just being pedantic

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I goobled that word and no I'm not.

I'm simply considering the possibility that something has been done to the egg, either chemically or genetically that has resulted in it no longer meeting whatever criteria needs to be met for it to be an actual chicken egg.

So therefore, farmers and Government regulators simply called it an egg.

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Because we can afford to. Have you ever seen the tiny refrigerators these needle dick foreigners have?

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I've seen refrigerators in Asian countries. They're pretty frickin' small.

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Pasture raised, brown grade A large eggs".

Nowhere on the package does it tell me what kind of egg it is. What species of egg or what sort of animal produced this egg.

What are we to infer from this?

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Ahh classic which came first chicken or egg scenario.

Since the egg technically isn't a fertilized egg, thus there is no chicken in the egg you are eating. Therefore you are eating just an egg ...and not a chicken egg.

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Ahh classic which came first chicken or egg scenario.

Since the egg technically isn't a fertilized egg, thus there is no chicken in the egg you are eating. Therefore you are eating just an egg ...and not a chicken egg.

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What can I say?

This thread can end now. Thank you for this.

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This was one of the first of many examples that opened my eyes to how Europeans, in some ways, actually have a higher and better standard of living. They eater better, for less.

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Their standard of living is pitifully beneath ours. Look at the table below. The only countries similar to the US in home size are Australia and Canada. As P.J. O'Rourke wrote, "I'd rather be a junkie in Houston, Texas than King, Queen and Jack of every one of you Europeans."

Country House Size (square feet) House Size (square meters)
Australia 2303 sq. ft 214 sq. meters
Austria 1043 sq. ft 97 sq. meters
Belgium 1293 sq. ft 120 sq. meters
Canada 1948 sq. ft 181 sq. meters
China 646 sq. ft 60 sq. meters
Denmark 1475 sq. ft 137 sq. meters
Finland 880 sq. ft 82 sq. meters
France 1206 sq. ft 112 sq. meters
Germany 1173 sq. ft 109 sq. meters
Greece 1356 sq. ft 126 sq. meters
Hong Kong 484 sq. ft 45 sq. meters
India 504 sq. ft 47 sq. meters
Ireland 957 sq. ft 89 sq. meters
Italy 872 sq. ft 81 sq. meters
Japan 1023 sq. ft 95 sq. meters
Luxembourg 1359 sq. ft 126 sq. meters
Netherlands 1261 sq. ft 117 sq. meters
New Zealand 2174 sq. ft 202 sq. meters
Portugal 902 sq. ft 84 sq. meters
Russia 614 sq. ft 57 sq. meters
Spain 1044 sq. ft 97 sq. meters
Sweden 893 sq. ft 83 sq. meters
United Kingdom 818 sq. ft 76 sq. meters
United States 2164 sq. ft 201 sq. meters

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I still never understood why we are the only country that refrigerates eggs. Everywhere else in the world they are out on a shelf.

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I’ve learned it’s because in the U.S. the eggs are rinsed clean which removes a protective coat which would otherwise protect it and allow it to be stored at room temperature.

The best eggs come from choupique or sturgeon, but not many of those are pasture raised.