ChattyCathy > wrote:

>Not knowing which "papers over the weekend" the blogger in the above link
>was on about, makes it a tad difficult to know exactly which rags s(he)
>was referring to (or what was said exactly)... But whatever they were, the
>interpretation is pretty amusing.
>
>Imagine going to a supermarket and asking for "a kilo of (whole, fresh,
>uncooked) eggs". So what do the supermarket staff do to supply *exactly* a
>kilo of eggs to a customer? Break one (or more) of them in half, maybe?
>
>FWIW, here in South Africa (chicken) eggs have been "graded by weight" for
>as long as I can remember. i.e. large eggs have to weigh a minimum of
>X-grams *each* in order to be termed "large", extra-large eggs have to
>weigh X-grams each, and so on. And the corresponding weight per "grade"
>has to be printed on the labels/packaging. However, they are still sold in
>traditional egg boxes by the half-dozen, dozen, or in egg trays of 18 or
>36 eggs.

I buy eggs from farmers markets, where the vendors sell random-size
eggs to you in randomly-selected used eggcartons that may say "medium",
"extra large" or whatever but it is meaningless.

Steve