Eggs to be Sold by Weight

[ladyDeWint]

British shoppers are to be banned from buying eggs by the dozen under new regulations approved by the European Parliament.

For the first time, eggs and ­other products such as oranges and bread rolls will be sold by weight instead of by the number contained in a packet.

Until now, Britain has been exempt from EU regulations that forbid the selling of goods by number. But last week MEPs voted to end Britain’s deal despite objections from UK members.

The new rules will mean that instead of packaging telling shoppers a box contains six eggs, it will show the weight in grams of the eggs inside, for example 372g.


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[Barryoneoff]

More EU cobblers!

[valk]

Yep!

[Meryl575]

What a load of twit

[tabbynera]

I never realised that that could be a problem. Switzerland is not in the EU and probably never will be, but we have an agreement and automatically followed the guidelines. However, since I can remember here I have bought eggs in boxes of 10. you can get smaller with 6, but I wouldn't bother. I never even noticed that there is a weight on the egg boxes. You can get large eggs and smaller ones. Also everything else is sold by weight. Rolls I have never bothered with as in our local supermarket you can take them out of the shelf youself and put them in the plastic bag, so you just fill up as many as you want. I very rarely buy rolls, but bread. Bread is usually 500 grammes, but you can get kilo loaves. Special bread can even be 400 grammes. Otherwise everything is sold by weight here.

You can get fruit like oranges packed in nets, but there again I usually take my bag and fill it up to what I want from the shelves. Also veg is like that. Just fill up in the plastic what you want, bung it on the scales and stick the label on.

[marilyn]

Eggs sold here in supermarkets have the weight on the boxes as well as being graded large/extra large etc. Not a problem, is it?

[tabbynera]

Same here Marilyn - always been like that. We also have the 100 gramme price on everything in brackets which makes it very easy to compare.

[ladyDeWint]

The question is why bother to go to the expense of changing, every recipe quotes eggs in quantity rather than weight. Eggs have always been sold in six or a dozen what is the point of changing just to satisfy some petty bureaucracy, the same with rolls if you want six rolls then why should the price depend upon the weight. Just sheer nonsense.

[Barryoneoff]

It gives these pillocks something to do.

[ladyDeWint]

yeah an excuse to shuffle another piece of paper around.

[tabbynera]

I still don't see the problem or what all the fuss is about. I had a look at some recipes from the EU countries. They never give eggs by weight, but by quantity as in England. See just one example (Eier = Eggs)

http://www.chefkoch.de/rezepte/374281123279752/Thueringer-Streuselkuchen.html

I have never seen eggs quoted by weight in a recipe in any EU country (France, German, Italy etc.). Also buying in the shops, never bought by weight, but by quantity. I don't really understand what it is all about. Perhaps I have misunderstood something, so what is really the problem?

[ladyDeWint]

That's what I said so what's the point of meddling in something thats worked for years.

[johnworc]

I have recently noticed what appears to be the beginning of a trend here in Oz to have egg cartons with just 10 eggs.
I go to my local Health Food shop where they have a big box of fresh organic free-range eggs every week - they're enormous eggs and one week I had 5 out of 12 which were double-yokers. The supermarket eggs are graded by size (weight printed on cartons), as Marilyn says. Those labelled 600gram eggs are very small!

[marilyn]

We still buy them in dozens or half dozens m'lady (though I have seen boxes of 10 like John says).

Not sure about weighing of rolls but I remember my Mum telling us that when she was young and was sent for bread
she always hoped it would be underweight because the bakers made up the weight with mince slice! Yum....

[ladyDeWint]

I remember mince slices they were loverly, mum always used to go to Rosenblatts bakers in St Leonards road, it was the time when bakers baked on the premises, and he was a great baker, another of his cakes was 'Tottemham' large triangles of sponge topped with icing and coconut.