Supermarket Weights and Measures Trickery - as eggs are surely eggs?

shaun_from_Africa

So then ... why have "Large" eggs generally got smaller in their (also smaller) boxes on the supermarket shelves

If they have (and I don't know if this is the case), maybe it's down to the large eggs now being closer to the minimum weight allowed for this category (63 grams,) and in previous years they may have been closer to the top end of the weight range.

pitkin2020

shaun_from_Africa wrote: »

If they have (and I don't know if this is the case), maybe it's down to the large eggs now being closer to the minimum weight allowed for this category (63 grams,) and in previous years they may have been closer to the top end of the weight range.

Exactly he has nothing to base his argument on. If eggs in 1990 were the size of ostrich eggs and now were the size of quail eggs fair do but they haven't.

Forwandert

I would guess the reason you tend not to get the large eggs with anything upto 5 yolks in anymore is they will go into manufacturing anything that requires egg, theres no point using the smaller eggs when consumers will buy them and it will keep prices down a little, there's not that many small producers anymore it tends to be on a huge scale so they will have agreements with companies to sell them that way.

redped

OP - sorry I haven't been on to read your latest rant, I've spent all afternoon watching ANOTHER of my fellow countrymen win a major golf tournament :j

2sides2everystory wrote: »

There are a number of apologists for the retailers inhabiting these threads and I am especially fed up with the view that consumers must be 'idiots' or silly if they can't spot the difference in carton sizes or any other pack size just by looking at it and perhaps comparing it with known sized alternative products on neighbouring shelves.

Are you STILL harping on about carton sizes? I don't believe anyone on your Innocent Smoothies thread is an apologist for a retailer - you're just being paranoid and sadly deluded.

2sides2everystory wrote: »

I believe this shows a degree of ignorance of some basic maths so I have decided to dedicate this new thread to educating the masses in a bit of solid geometry.

You're know nothing about the level of education of any of the people on here, so for you to get all high & mighty shows a degree of arrogance on your part.

2sides2everystory wrote: »

It's not rocket science

Neither is being able to tell the difference between a carton that says 750ml and one that says 1 litre, but you seem to struggle with that.

We know most eggs are egg shaped but lets assume for a moment that they are spherical.

Why? Eggs are not spherical, so making that false assumption at the beginning of your argument immediately rules out any mathematical formulae you mention.

If you're still obsessed with the differing size of eggs, why don't you have a chat with all the hens in the UK and ask them to kindly lay identical-sized eggs?

skiddlydiddly

You are all missing the obvious.If we bred the hens to have square a**eholes then the eggs would come out square and be much easier to measure and grade.2sides could be in charge of the pogramme as he/she seems to have lots of time to spare.

2sides2everystory

I was away at the weekend but have returned home now so have been able to weigh the eggs in my fridge. I have 3 'Very Large' Free range Tesco eggs left which weigh 71g, 72g and 74g.

So what do we deduce from that children?

gordikin

2sides2everystory wrote: »

I was away at the weekend but have returned home now so have been able to weigh the eggs in my fridge. I have 3 'Very Large' Free range Tesco eggs left which weigh 71g, 72g and 74g.

So what do we deduce from that children?

Easy, you've got 3 eggs that weigh more than 70g each.

shaun_from_Africa

So what do we deduce from that children?

What does the calibration certificate for your scales show for the accuracy?

The 74g one is over the minimum weight, and the other 2 are 1 gram and 2 grams under the weight for very large, which is probably well under the accuracy tolerance of your scales.

2sides2everystory

Even if Shaun is right it does look like they cut it a bit fine, doesn't it?

shaun_from_Africa

A bit fine, very fine, or extremely fine, it doesn't matter provided that the eggs are over the minimum weight limit.

Why would any egg producing business spend money to get eggs that exceed the weight that they need, knowing that they will not get any extra income for doing so?
If they sell eggs that weigh 73g or 83g they will get the same amount for them.

If you buy 1 litre of milk, would you complain if you were given exactly 1 litre?, after all, aren't they also cutting it a bit fine?