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[Sixstring]

Does it really matter how you buy eggs??

Every recipe I have ever used says something like "use two eggs" or separate the yolks of three eggs from the whites"so if you bought six or seven or even twelve, would only give you differing amounts left to make more cakes!!!

(ok, that was a little useless info, but it lightened the tone a bit..............................)

I suppose the point here is the fact that somebody other than your own government is trying to TELL you how you should buy your own eggs??

Its no yolk, I tell you!!

[Darth Loo-knee]

Does it really matter how you buy eggs??

Every recipe I have ever used says something like "use two eggs" or separate the yolks of three eggs from the whites"so if you bought six or seven or even twelve, would only give you differing amounts left to make more cakes!!!

(ok, that was a little useless info, but it lightened the tone a bit..............................)

I suppose the point here is the fact that somebody other than your own government is trying to TELL you how you should buy your own eggs??

Its no yolk, I tell you!!

Have to laugh at this, because... my Mum used to weigh her eggs when doing a Sponge Cake, then put the rest of the ingredients in at the weigh of the eggs

if that makes sense

[Dishevelled Den]

Perhaps we should consider the import of what we're saying here :-/ :-/



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[Banjax]

stand down, people - the panic's over 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/scrambled-ndash-the-eu-threat-to-british-eggs-2015264.html
"Look away Eurosceptics. Those meddling Brussels bureaucrats have let you down again and are not going to ban the sale of eggs by the dozen.

To the disappointment of red-top newspapers and irate contributors to talk radio, the European Union confirmed yesterday that MEPs had not voted to do away with a cherished feature of Great British life.

In an emergency statement, the European Parliament said: "Selling eggs by the dozen will not be illegal under the terms of the amendments adopted to EU food labelling proposals. Labels will still be able to indicate the number of items in a pack – whether it's eggs, bread rolls or fish fingers."

[Dishevelled Den]

stand down, people - the panic's over 

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/scrambled-ndash-the-eu-threat-to-british-eggs-2015264.html
"Look away Eurosceptics. Those meddling Brussels bureaucrats have let you down again and are not going to ban the sale of eggs by the dozen.

To the disappointment of red-top newspapers and irate contributors to talk radio, the European Union confirmed yesterday that MEPs had not voted to do away with a cherished feature of Great British life.

In an emergency statement, the European Parliament said: "Selling eggs by the dozen will not be illegal under the terms of the amendments adopted to EU food labelling proposals. Labels will still be able to indicate the number of items in a pack – whether it's eggs, bread rolls or fish fingers."

Very welcome news indeed BJ

What next demands our care?

[Varche]

What a relief. Common sense prevails. Britain will now be able to deploy its army of inspectors to make sure no one is misselling eggs and "crack" down on offenders. Meanwhile France and Spain will just merrily continue doing whatever they have always done completely oblivious to these EU shenanigans. The "yolk" is on us!

[Sixstring]

Do you EGGSPECT us to believe this???

If you are not, its CRACKING news!!


(coat, car, zoom)

[Dishevelled Den]

What a relief. Common sense prevails. Britain will now be able to deploy its army of inspectors to make sure no one is misselling eggs and "crack" down on offenders. Meanwhile France and Spain will just merrily continue doing whatever they have always done completely oblivious to these EU shenanigans. The "yolk" is on us!

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[Chris_H]

We have narrowly missed-out on the abolition of the eleven and twelve-times tables in schools!

Grade increases may level-out if the little darlings have their minds stretched that much.

[Dishevelled Den]

What a relief. Common sense prevails. Britain will now be able to deploy its army of inspectors to make sure no one is misselling eggs and "crack" down on offenders. Meanwhile France and Spain will just merrily continue doing whatever they have always done completely oblivious to these EU shenanigans. The "yolk" is on us!

Meanwhile France and Spain will just merrily continue doing whatever they have always done completely oblivious to these EU shenanigans

That's the one there Snr,

Perhaps that's the secret of survival within the EU - if so, we could happily remain on board and play the game like the rest :-/ :-/

[Lizzie_Zoom]

I must be missing something here: What madman would weigh eggs anyway? :-/

Can't remember ever seeing a recipe that called for "250g of Egg".

Kevin

You don't of course weigh eggs, no more than have a receipy dictating weight of eggs Kevin.

But when you are packaging, costing, retailing and purchasing eggs it is far easier and commercially sensible to deal in metric calculation.

Having declared my support for the metric system I'm still trying to understand why an item such as (in this case) eggs can't be sold by numerical quantity rather than weight as the system embraces both measurements.

Does it really make that much difference to packaging, costing and so on?

??  Sorry Zulu, I do not understand your point.  Eggs ARE sold in numerical quantity - 6s, 12s, 18s 
 
Those quantities I suggest should be 5s, 10s, 20s

That is precisely the point. The EU is proposing that we CAN'T advertise/sell eggs in numeric quantities, only by weight. Thus, it has nothing to do with metrication.

It's plainly a case of rules for rules' sake.


You wait. Next it will be illegal to sell beer in pints. 

The main point is why should an outside agency dictate to us how we should sell eggs? FFS! 

Don't worry Nick, we know that will never happen as the major players in the market - the supermarket chains of Britain - will stop any moves to stop selling eggs by quantity, and this "story" is just another piece of D.Mail scaremongering. 

But what I am saying is eggs should be packed in metric quantities, with no more dogma about sticking to imperial measurement.  It is so dated and cumbersome.

So I was right again!

[Dishevelled Den]

I must be missing something here: What madman would weigh eggs anyway? :-/

Can't remember ever seeing a recipe that called for "250g of Egg".

Kevin

You don't of course weigh eggs, no more than have a receipy dictating weight of eggs Kevin.

But when you are packaging, costing, retailing and purchasing eggs it is far easier and commercially sensible to deal in metric calculation.

Having declared my support for the metric system I'm still trying to understand why an item such as (in this case) eggs can't be sold by numerical quantity rather than weight as the system embraces both measurements.

Does it really make that much difference to packaging, costing and so on?

??  Sorry Zulu, I do not understand your point.  Eggs ARE sold in numerical quantity - 6s, 12s, 18s 
 
Those quantities I suggest should be 5s, 10s, 20s

That is precisely the point. The EU is proposing that we CAN'T advertise/sell eggs in numeric quantities, only by weight. Thus, it has nothing to do with metrication.

It's plainly a case of rules for rules' sake.


You wait. Next it will be illegal to sell beer in pints. 

The main point is why should an outside agency dictate to us how we should sell eggs? FFS! 

Don't worry Nick, we know that will never happen as the major players in the market - the supermarket chains of Britain - will stop any moves to stop selling eggs by quantity, and this "story" is just another piece of D.Mail scaremongering. 

But what I am saying is eggs should be packed in metric quantities, with no more dogma about sticking to imperial measurement.  It is so dated and cumbersome.

So I was right again!

Yes, a splendid piece of analysis E 8-)