johnny on nostr

You go to the supermarket and buy 1 kilo of apples, 1 liter of milk and 100 grams of ham. Everything is decimal, but you get to the eggs and buy half a dozen or a dozen. Why do we break the 10 rule only with the eggs? 🥚

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Mananguri · 34w

It's because the one hundred year old machine that makes the egg cartons still works perfectly. When producers have tried using plastic cartons with only 10 eggs, they don't sell because there's always a huge stack of familiar cardboard dozen eggs that simply have more eggs in them. Why buy 10, wh...

bevo · 2w

Some countries break the rules. Funny thing is occasionally they run a special and have 12 with marketing of 2 free eggs. The great egg psyop https://image.nostr.build/2103308bb057f80831fd61ee489fadfa616c68c61232cfa7eb3da09c2fc07f4c.jpg