On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:51:40 +0000, Steve Pope wrote:

> 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.

Yeah, where I live a lot of people don't mind buying a carton of fresh
"free-range" eggs in varying sizes/weights from these farmers markets
because they are usually a lot nicer (and fresher) than those "battery
eggs" sold in most supermarkets, regardless of size and/or weight.

FWIW, I don't think I've had to buy more than half a dozen eggs in the
last 4 or 5 years (we have chickens in our back yard, dunno if I told
you that?) I've given dozens of them away for nothing; just couldn't use
them up quick enough...

However, I do keep the odd eye out on the prices for eggs sold in the
supermarkets (who have to abide by the "rules and regulations"), and
the other day I saw some eggs marked as "extra-large" in one of our local
stupid markets; label had 59g ea on it. The eggs my chickens lay are
generally heavier than that (I just weighed 3 of them - and they were
approx. 90g ea on my kitchen scale). They just "look" much bigger in
comparison too. So these might qualify to be "Jumbo" eggs - dunno.

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Chatty Cathy