Anyone fancy 100g of eggs for breakfast?

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01 Jul 2010, 2:46 am

Well? WELL?!

No I am not making this up. The EU says so.

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01 Jul 2010, 2:53 am

Well, how many grams/egg (metric illiterate american here)?

I just had 4 medium eggs on a bed of shredded potatoes, topped with salsa and 6 slices of bacon on the side...

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01 Jul 2010, 2:55 am

Two eggs.

I'm highlighting the ridiculous ruling from Brussels that says that traders must supply eggs in metric.

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01 Jul 2010, 3:01 am

Metric as opposed to?

Sorry, I don't understand the bizarre English measurement system - and I'm from a former English colony! And I find that most of the EU's rulings are based on intelligent and logical decisions.

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01 Jul 2010, 3:08 am

Tequila wrote:

Two eggs.

I'm highlighting the ridiculous ruling from Brussels that says that traders must supply eggs in metric.

I see. I was thinking nutritional guidelines...

Now that I understand, I agree. Anything requiring metrics is, by nature, ridiculous.

... not to mention eggs already come in their own, handy unit of measure! :roll:

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01 Jul 2010, 3:40 am

shukri wrote:

Metric as opposed to?

Per egg!

It's been greeted with ridicule here in Britain. I wonder what Danes think about it.

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01 Jul 2010, 3:54 am

Maby I need to be in the UK to understand? Here you can buy eggs by the 6, 12 or 18 as standard. They are graded into size of eggs. So if you want 45g eggs get them. If you like bigger eggs get the 55g or 65g if that's the size you like. Am I missing something? I can't see the problem.

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01 Jul 2010, 3:57 am

shukri wrote:

Metric as opposed to?

Sorry, I don't understand the bizarre English measurement system - and I'm from a former English colony! And I find that most of the EU's rulings are based on intelligent and logical decisions.

Base twelve is a better base for measuring things than base ten is - it divides up much better (1,2,3,4,6,12 as opposed to 1,2,5,10) - if everybody would agree to grow an extra couple of fingers, it'd be great.

Britain is metric these days - it's very funny that the greatest user of Imperial measurements in the world is the US.

But yeah, the idea of buying eggs by weight rather than by "this is an eggbox with six eggs" is stupid. Like the straight banana myth, it isn't quite true...

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01 Jul 2010, 4:06 am

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We buy our eggs the same way. The EU wants us to buy 600g of eggs in future rather than the dozen that normal people buy.

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01 Jul 2010, 4:13 am

Ah ok...yea that sounds silly to me to.

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01 Jul 2010, 4:58 am

They don't, as the BBC page I linked points out. What they want to do is to include the mass of eggs on packaging. That does not preclude labelling them as "a dozen eggs" - what it means is that they want the label to say "a dozen eggs (600g)." It's pretty pointless, but it isn't saying "thou shalt not sell a dozen eggs."

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01 Jul 2010, 5:16 am

I'd missed that link, thanks Ambivalence.
That makes alot more sense and no, I can't see there is any problem. :huh:
Sounds better to me. Now you can buy a dozen eggs that have been graded into a set of standard sizes not just 12 eggs in a carton of varied size?

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01 Jul 2010, 5:17 am

Tequila wrote:

ellomo wrote:

We buy our eggs the same way. The EU wants us to buy 600g of eggs in future rather than the dozen that normal people buy.

why finland is in eu too but we still have 12 packs not grams (all thought they are marked in box but thats finlands law)

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01 Jul 2010, 6:25 am

You woke me up, and made me hungry. :sunny:

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01 Jul 2010, 7:24 am

Tequila wrote:

shukri wrote:

Metric as opposed to?

Per egg!

It's been greeted with ridicule here in Britain. I wonder what Danes think about it.

Oh, now I get what you mean. When you said "for breakfast" I thought you literally meant ... for breakfast. Eggs will probably always be sold by dozens or factors thereof, but using metric weight in addition to that is important because egg sizes vary. Assuming I'm actually getting the point now.

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01 Jul 2010, 7:34 am

Tequila wrote:

shukri wrote:

Metric as opposed to?

Per egg!

Yes, I'd like 100g of eggs, 75.6g of toast and 45kg of that's ridiculous.

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