Victim of egg fraud

[MidnightPatrol]

Earlier this week I read that people were swapping ‘premium eggs’ in the supermarket, for cheaper ones.

Reader, today I opened my Clarence court eggs to find… only half in a box of ten had the relevant crown stamp.

I’ve been had!

Check your eggs!

😳

People regularly steal from the honesty box egg stand on a nearby farm. Cctv shows them driving up in their not inexpensive cars to do so. It must cost them more in fuel to drive to a rural farm to steal the eggs. People are strange.

I saw a couple swapping eggs from one box to another but they seemed to be swapping small for large in the mixed size boxes rather than brands. Unlikely to be more luxury brand as the boxes looked like the same cheap cardboard.

It's the price that pays for the welfare standard, so if they aren't paying the right price they aren't paying for the animal welfare.

But hey, it isn't really the welfare of the hens they are interested in, is it? They don't care about that. All they want is what they perceive to be a 'better quality' product without having to pay a higher price for it.

I haven't heard of this before, but I know the Mixed Size boxes of 10 eggs get their contents swapped around!

I'm vegan so don't eat eggs, but never knew this was a thing though.
Live and learn.

I’ll def be keeping an eye out for this, I just check they aren’t cracked and that’s it … I was sad today to see my local Tesco have stopped stocking Burford Browns. I love them as their yolks are so orange and tasty

Purchased in Waitrose, no less!

This feels like a lesser crime, as I suppose they are the same product.

A bit of a marginal gain however…!

Of course all eggs don't taste the same.... What a ridiculous statement!

God, that makes sense — I always assumed the checkout person was just checking that the size inside was the same as on the box or hanger, but that has illuminated things.

I too have seen people do this.
Swapping eggs is a thing for some folk.

Because they are really sticking it to the man whilst crying about cost of living and lowering their integrity...

P.s I'm not normally this harsh but I've had a week of cfs

Surely cctv would pick this up. There’s cameras covering every bit of most supermarkets

I’ve seen someone swapping xl eggs for a different size before. I mean how ridiculous and unpleasant.
There seems to be no punishment for petty thievery anymore and people have no shame so 🤷🏻‍♀️
No punishment for all the horrible people in the Epstein files either though 🤷🏻‍♀️🙈

The golden colour of an egg yolk is determined by the food the chicken has eaten, additives are added to the food to get the golden colour. If chickens are free range and eat certain weeds the yolks end up a greenish shade

Its even worse when you crack open a double yolker that you spent 5 quid on for 6 to find 1 tiny yolk 😫.

Feel bumped 😔.

Yeah I've heard from a thread on here about people thinking that the mixed ones are mixed because they didn't sort them, rather than because you're paying for the average weight. I think it was an aibu because someone had spotted them picking all the biggest ones into their box and said they wished there were so bold!

I never buy large eggs because I heard it hurts the chickens. Am I being ridiculous believing this?

@Autumn1990BB add marigolds and paprika to the chicken feed as the colour additive, I believe

That's awful! A lot of people make sacrifices so that they can afford the higher melfare products. We only eat meat a couple of times a week, in order to be able to afford the higher welfare dairy, meat and eggs. I'd be hopping mad to find cheap 🥚 after scrimping and saving to afford the good ones.

Made a 3 egg omelette and one egg yolk was suspiciously pale, had a look and yes, had been swapped.

Yeas ago, I bought a packet of paracetamol, went to take some once home and there was only one sleeve instead of three.
Now I always check.

Not as much as being culled because they produce eggs that are too big to go in the small eggs supply chain.

😯

They want the posh ones for the same reason you do! Duh!

But much nicer for the hens!