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I don't follow you? I would say no one holds eggs purposely.. But that egg on the right in Dingleberry's picture is old old old. Looks like it does not even make grade B. The eggs on the right sat on a shelf somewhere for a very long time. I assume that is the basis for Neil's question.
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I assumed the basis for the question was that he knew the original statement was hogwash.
I re read it from another perspective.....
Agreed it is highly doubtful any retailer would "keep" eggs for a period of time prior to trying to sell them..... Indeed the eggs may be for sale, but no one is buying.. So they get "old", and or the sit in a warehouse for too long before getting to the store.
I feel the issue of how long USDA says eggs can be kept after laying is a good discussion point. Those eggs on the left are disgusting, particularly the one were the yolk broke it was so old.
I am coming at this from the perspective that if small producers such as those on this forum, lobbied to have the regulations changed to a shorter holding period of eggs, the "industrial" producers costs would go up and their profits down... Giving us small producers more of an even playing field to sell our eggs at $2 to $6 a dozen, in our given markets... INSTEAD, some find themselves competing against the $0.97 dozen of eggs, which few of us can or even want to produce... After all it is the mass producers that lobbied and lobbied to push the envelope of what we as consumers consider a "fresh" egg.....
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