Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Immediately Sick (2016)

Re:Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Im... by smcl on Saturday March 26, 2022 @04:44AM (#30810269)

> keep their eggs in the coolers

This is down to a very specific thing that happens in the USA and doesn't tend to happen here. If you wash an egg (because it has feathers or looks a little "dirty") you remove a sort of protective membrane[0] on the shell's surface which leaves it open to infection. To prevent this you need to refridgerate the eggs.

That said, we do refridgerate eggs in the EU. Every supermarket I've seen in UK and Czech Republic does this, and everyone I know puts their eggs in the fridge when they take them home. It may not be necessary, but we do it nonetheless.

[0] https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/11/336330502/wh...

edit: I am now remembering some shops that do have them outside of the refridgerator :D

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Re:Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Im... by atchoo on Saturday March 26, 2022 @05:11AM (#30810375)

> Every supermarket I've seen in UK

What? Eggs are not refrigerated in the UK. The tend to sit in the dry goods aisle near the flour and baking products.

https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+egg+supermarket+shelf+-ea...

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Re:Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Im... by akvadrako on Saturday March 26, 2022 @04:51AM (#30810298)

The eggs are not refrigerated in every country's supermarkets. Here is The Netherlands they sit on the shelf.

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Re:Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Im... by Dyac on Saturday March 26, 2022 @04:56AM (#30810319)

Same in the UK - I've never seen eggs in the fridge at the supermarket.

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Re:Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Im... by tpxl on Saturday March 26, 2022 @05:01AM (#30810349)

Where I'm from, eggs are not refrigerated in stores. We do mostly keep them in fridges, except if you get a lot, you put some in the fridge and the rest in the pantry. There is a problem if you store them in the fridge, then put them out, since the condensation may damage the protective membrane.

Reminder that chicks take 21 days to hatch, so a (healthy unfertilized) egg is still safe to eat after 3 weeks in the cupboard.

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Re:Lawmakers Drink Raw Milk to Celebrate Legality, Become Im... by panick21_ on Saturday March 26, 2022 @08:05AM (#30811126)

Eggs are not refrigerated in Switzerland in stores.

I do put my eggs into the fridge but mostly because I don't have much space for them and there is egg store thing int the fridge.

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