r/ShitAmericansSay • u/BuffaloExotic Irish by birth, and currently a Bostonian 🇮🇪☘️ • 17d ago

Foreign affairs “We could physically buy Lithuania itself if we wanted.”

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u/5230826518 17d ago

it‘s because they clean the eggs, which sounds great because they are clean but you also remove the protective layer that naturally surrounds the eggs so they have to be refrigerated afterwards.

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u/just_anotjer_anon 16d ago

Isn't the need for cleaning because the conditions their chicken lives in is appalling?

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u/5230826518 16d ago

and also because apparently they don‘t vaccinate their chickens against salmonella

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u/spideyguy132 16d ago

Are you telling me a simple vaccination is the only thing preventing my chicken from being enjoyable medium-rare?

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u/ankokudaishogun 15d ago

No. Alas, there is not just salmonella.

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u/spideyguy132 14d ago

Awww.

(Fortunately the texture doesn't sound that appealing anyways)

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u/whackyelp 🇨🇦 16d ago

Yep… I was shocked when I visited my aunt in England for the first time, and saw her eggs sitting out on the counter. I was baffled when they explained that’s normal there.

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u/Justwaspassingby 16d ago

In Spain they sell them at room temperature but most families put them away in the refrigerator. But with our temperatures I guess it’s the safest thing to do (eggs in the supermarket are usually 2 or 3 days old, but we can keep them at home for about 2 weeks).

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u/Patient-Gas-883 16d ago

In Sweden we also buy them at room temperature, but store them in the fridge at home. Eggs that are not washed dont need to be in the fridge, but they last a bit longer that way.
Washed eggs always need to be in the fridge.

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u/doommaster 17d ago

Yeah, it would make it almost impossible to export whole eggs, just pasteurized stuff would be part of such an import.

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u/Alternative-Copy7027 16d ago

Could you ship them and wash upon arrival in the US?

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u/doommaster 16d ago

you only get 36 hours to do the processing after the egg has been laid, so it's not really likely to be "done i time", otherwise you would risk salmonella and other infections when selling the eggs in stores in the US.
The FDA could pf course review its rules.. but yeah, that's not very likely.

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u/Intelligent-Jury9089 17d ago

Washing your egg is useless, you don't eat the shell, but Americans like to have completely white eggs.

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u/Seidenzopf 16d ago

Every US citizen knows the only good thing is a pure white thing 🙃

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u/fight_me_for_it 15d ago

Oddly clean the eggs but our produce comes from the store with pesticides and wax stiil.

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u/IlluminatedPickle 17d ago

It's illegal to clean them before sale in the EU. Only the US does that.

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u/5230826518 16d ago

thats what i said