alwaysfaithfulterriblelizard:
this egg fucking froze because our fridge is too cold
o-bellaciao:
Why would you keep the eggs on the fridge?
alwaysfaithfulterriblelizard:
we keep our eggs in the fridge…so they don’t denature? do you not refrigerate your eggs?
nanner:
Because of the way our eggs are processed and the prevalence of salmonella in american chickens, americans have to fridge their eggs.
http://io9.com/americans-why-do-you-keep-refrigerating-your-eggs-1465309529
colorschanging:
Wait, they don’t refrigerate eggs in other countries?
ladyoflate:
wait what people in other countries dont refrigerate eggs???
wewishyouamurphychristmas:
wait a second eggs in other countries aren’t refrigerated?????????
agathaheterodyne:
Waht.
slepaulica:
yeah, we don’t refrigerate them here. they keep like a month or two, even in summer, just crack it into a cup in case it’s accidentally taken you too long to use those eggs, give it a whiff, if it smells okay you’re good to go even if it’s really old. don’t use the float test — that turns up a lot of false positives and sometimes you end up throwing away perfectly good eggs, which is not cheap. just turn your eggs upside down every now and then to help keep them fresh and yeah.
also chicken eggs do not look anything like those things you see on american tv shows. they have brown shells and the yolks are orange.
triplash:
Americans refrigerate their eggs..
America..
slepaulica:
if you read the link though, there’s actually a reason for why they have to do it, a reason that doesn’t apply anywhere else in the world.
slepaulica:
we should organise a charity drive to mail european eggs to americans. we can send them uht milk too, i read on the internet that they only have the kind of milk that has to be refrigerated
Canadians refrigerate eggs too. And re: colour, every Canadian grocery store I have ever been in carried multiple brands of eggs, some of which were white and some which were brown. (We usually buy the brown: the last time I bought white it was because we realised at the last moment we were out of eggs and Mom sent me to the white-egg-only convenience store to get a dozen to tide us over.)
Who told you Americans don’t have UHT milk? I don’t know about big ones, but there are definitely single-serving ones that I think are intended for kids’ lunches. I used to go through multiple single-serving boxes* of Parmelat chocolate milk a day when I was a kid.
(Come to think of it, did they say “no room-temperature milk” or “no UHT milk”? Because while I’ve drunk well over a thousand cartons* of milk (all bought in America) that appear to fit with the definition of “UHT milk” I just looked up, I had never heard the term before.)
*The Canadian term for this is the genericised trademark “tetra pak”, but since I’m talking about my experiences as an American in America I figured I ought to use the terminology I would’ve used at the time, despite its relative lack of precision.
P.S. Maybe I should look into the possibility of larger tetras of milk, considering I just had refrigerated milk go lumpy nine days before its sell-by date (beating the previous record of six days). Bagged milk sounds like a neat idea, but it’s terrible for preservation, and the manufacturers won’t even admit it.
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