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The Daily Photoist: November 20, 2009
A very well-dressed and perplexed-looking man stands in front of the egg display in a local supermarket, warily eyeing the dizzying array of medium, large, extra-large, white, brown, free-run, cage-free, organic, omega-3, enhanced, hard-boiled, pickled, and even yolkless eggs. He takes a step back, calls a trusted confidant on his cell phone, and asks:
Man: Hi. How exactly does one go about selecting eggs?
Ah, the paradox of choice strikes again.
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Well, choosing eggs is easy! It just depends on if you want to be ethical (free run), cheap-assed (the large ones), extremely cheap-assed (the small ones) or slightly confused about life in general (omega).
Some eggs have a fairly complicated labelling system in which codes are stamped on the eggs themselves denoting the organicness, ethicalness and other -nesses of the eggs in question. A few weeks ago I was at a grocery store and a guy was sitting at a table next to the egg case specifically to talk to folks about this labelling system. That's how easy it is to understand. They needed a guy!
you misspelled credulous as "ethical".
Choosing eggs is easy.
Broken. Not broken.
Good point, x_the_x.
I forgot that the free run chickens don't live in much better conditions than the ones packed into tiny cages. It's not as if they are running around a field; they have barely more room than the caged ones. If you disregard the strange picture of Pamela Anderson-Lee,
I guess the only choice is to buy foods with eggs already in them so you don't have to think about the horror.I have been that perplexed man a few times...except I'm a woman.
I've purchased (half carton) eggs maybe 3 times in my entire life. I don't eat them, unless they are undetectable in foods, and only use them if I'm baking something. I've also been that confused person standing in front of the eggs wondering which ones to choose. However, I just learned today from Chef at Home (Food Network)that there's no difference between brown eggs and white eggs!