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eta@feddit.org 1 month ago
This image probably scares americans. on the left because they fear for their children and on the right because they can’t afford it.
NichEherVielleicht@feddit.org 1 month ago
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As an American, this mostly scares me because I can’t read german
Mim@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Wait until they hear the one on the right wasn’t in the fridge 🙀
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 month ago
It came out a chickens what
Rooskie91@discuss.online 1 month ago
Americans do a lot of foolish things, but refrigerating their eggs is not one of them.
There is a good reason: eggs are washed before they’re sold in the US, which removes the egg’s cuticle (a natural protective coating). This process reduces the risk of bacterial contamination, and, when combined with refrigeration, extends the shelf life of the egg. That matters in a country with a distributed population as geographically vast as the U.S., where food often travels longer distances before reaching the consumer. Refrigerating eggs is a solution to a logistical challenge not present in Europe.
I like to point this out because a European unaware of this difference might visit America, refuse to refrigerate their eggs (believing their own cultural practices to be superior and more “natural”) and end up with salmonella. It’s ironic because getting sick in another country due to ignorance of local customs, while assuming your own culture is better, is a very American thing to do. I guess the apple didn’t fall far from the tree.
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As an American, I heard that the euros don’t refrigerate their eggs. And I thought “well that’s good… One less thing to refrigerate!” And I stopped doing it about 15 years ago.
I have not had salmonella once. Worst case is that about once every two years, I crack a rotten egg into my breakfast scramble and it smells like Satan’s hangover farts. But ya know, ya win some, ya lose some.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
If you can get local fresh eggs you might not need to refrigerate them. We get them from a relative who has a few chickens and more eggs than they can eat to share.
Allero@lemmy.today 1 month ago
You monster!
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
I’m from Europe, and while I know I don’t need to have my eggs in the fridge I do so anyways. I don’t think that the cold will hurt. Maybe they will last even longer!
amorpheus@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Same, once they have been cold their protective coating can suffer, so keep that in mind and keep it don’t leave them out at a later time.
HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Thanks, I’ll keep that in mind. Although, I don’t really have any other place to keep them than my fridge, so they’ll probably stay there.
crunchy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Just call it raw and they’ll be into it
humorlessrepost@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t get it. We tend to think of raw animal products as either exotic or gross (French steak tartare, Korean yookhwe, Italian carpaccio, German mett, etc). Even filet Américain, despite its name, is something most Americans have never heard of. We don’t really have our own equivalent to these dishes.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Why would you keep eggs in a fridge? I just leave them in a basket on the counter top.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Because my country’s egg supply chain makes them require refrigeration.