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Default Eurobody decrees eggs to be sold by weight only


"ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:01:03 -0600, graham wrote:
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>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_%28...cken_egg_sizes
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>> These tables are important as I usually use UK baking books and a large
>> egg
>> there is ~equivalent to an X-large in Canada and the US.
>> Graham

>
> Useful link, thanks. And looking at this I think I can safely assume that
> the eggs my chickens are laying at the moment would be termed "Jumbo" or
> "Very Large" in several parts of the world :-)
>

Happy chickens!!
My parents (in the UK) bought their eggs from a farm and Mum always weighed
them when she was baking cakes.
Graham