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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Huh? I don't buy many eggs, but I thought that, when a person buys a dozen large eggs, they expect to get 12 large eggs. Many recipes that include eggs, specify the size of the eggs.
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True.
I understand that eggs are sold by weight and there is bound to be some variation in size in a dozen eggs, no matter what the size. But there is variation, and then there is variation. An extra-large egg is about a third larger than a medium egg, and if you open a carton with containing maybe four eggs with that difference it doesn't take a Sherlock Holmes to see that some shenanigans are going on.
On the overall scale of things, swiping a few eggs from an extra-large carton and replacing them with the mediums from your carton is pennies. But it is the idea that it is going on at all that is troubling. You're not robbing the store. You're robbing the person who believes that they are buying a carton full of extra-large eggs.
Sign of the times, I guess.