eggs in japan

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• wetsoggybread@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I forgot that the us is one of the few countries that washes the eggs and as a result they have to be refridgerated, its weirs for me to just see them out on the floor at room temperature

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  • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This is one of those neat factoids that isn’t entirely true.

    Japan does wash and refrigerate its eggs, just not all eggs and brands and groceries (it’s not a law).

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    Most of the low salmonella incident rate comes from a higher inspection rate of egg producers and, here’s the fun one, a higher rate of raw egg ingestion, leading to faster report and response times for when there is contamination.

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  • Eiri@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I was convinced Japan also washed their eggs. I’m confused.

    Also I’m curious about why Americans are really squeamish about people eating any egg products that haven’t been fully sterilized by cooking, while others generally aren’t scared of it, even if they’re in a country that washes eggs just like the US.

    In the US, people don’t even taste their cake batter to check the amount of sugar before cooking it; in Canada, a summer isn’t whole until you’ve made strawberry mousse (ingredients: strawberry, egg whites, sugar; eaten raw). Perplexing. Is it riskier in the US, or is the risk equally low everywhere but Americans are really paranoid?

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    • kungen@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The USDA’s website says that eggs are “washed and refrigerated in Canada, Japan, and Scandinavia”, but that’s a lie regarding Scandinavia in any case (I’m an egg enthusiast btw)… so I wouldn’t be surprised they’re lying about Japan as well.

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    • AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s just two different strategies for avoiding salmonella. The US method has worked very well for a very long time. So much so that other countries did adopt it, at least for a time, but it requires an infrastructure that can keep the eggs refrigerated through from processing to consumer, which isn’t trivial.

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    • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      As a Canadian I’ve never had mousse. Only raw egg consumed is in raw cookie dough and that is a calculated risk.

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    • Battle_Masker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Americans are really, REALLY paranoid

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    • teamevil@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Who in America doesn’t eat cake batter‽ I always heard not to but never got sick so I never listened. Also our fat asses love raw cookie dough.

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    • usrtrv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Japan also washes them. Just not all.

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    • socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      IDK where in the US you are but I don't know anyone who is squeamish about raw egg.

      You are actually significantly more likely to get cross contamination from an unwashed shell than from a properly stored washed egg.

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    • TheLadyAugust@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      US here, I grew up in a township, part rural part suburban, on a farm and this was not a concern for most people out there but all my friends and their families from the suburban side were squeamish. I think it comes down to repeated misinformation reinforcing a fear.

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  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why would you wash them?

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    • Sunsofold@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      They often end up with bits of stuff stuck to them while they’re wet, like feathers, bedding, etc. Poop isn’t uncommon either. The same people who won’t buy salmon unless it has that freshly dyed pink color, and won’t buy potatoes if they aren’t universally convex, balk at the bits that remind them they come from a real place and aren’t just summoned into existence for their sake. Washing the eggs takes off the bits but also the ‘bloom’ which is the natural barrier to bacteria and the like. Hence, refrigeration.

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    • tja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Because the conditions that the chickens are raised in promote growth of salmonella to such a degree that they need to chlorinate the outside and scrub & wash away the cuticle. The production model for chickens is so harsh that they can’t keep themselves clean or care for themselves. And the chemical companies profit off the model so there is no incentive to make chickens happier or healthier.

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    • abbadon420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Because it came out of a chicken’s but. Don’t you wash your turds before you eat them?

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  • zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It blew my mind visiting Europe and finding eggs in a supermarket that weren’t in the fridge

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  • 8000gnat@reddthat.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    came here to ask about this

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• slaacaa@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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• WalnutLum@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait till you see our healthcare prices.

  Image Orthoepoedist visit and back medicine for two months.

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• _lilith@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Man this is like 𝘢𝘭𝘭 food in Japan too. The food is dirt cheap and so much better quality

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• b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Do not be fooled! These are WOKE DEI eggs from the Deep State. They have pronouns and are full of chemtrails and vaccines.

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• LittleRatInALittleHat@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Yeah but their eggs don’t have salmonella and bird flu.

  If you want that in there you gotta pay extra

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• Acinonyx@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  damn look at this nice floor texture

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  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The Japanese sporting fans leave the stadium cleaner than before the match started. Cleanliness in Japan is taken to new level and the rest of the 1st World could learn from the Rising Sun.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  You guys are all lucky I’m not in America anymore or I would delete all of these cheap egg photos for being COMMIE TRASH.

  But now I’m in the UK and eggs are a reasonable price. Not that cheap, but reasonable.

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  Carry on.

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• Willy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The us has killed more than 15 million chickens just the last few weeks. Sometimes with foam. If other countries have to do that their prices will rise too. NHK had a great documentary recently about an egg family that was doing pasture raised eggs at $1 each.

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  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Guess they shouldn’t have kept the chickens in such horrifying conditions.

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    • socsa@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It's actually kind of funny, at Aldi the price of regular eggs doubled to like $4.50, but the price of the free range eggs went up like $0.50 to $5.75. It dawned on me that the reason my egg costs have not varied that much is because I was always buying the better eggs the whole time.

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    • Willy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I haven always been buying “good eggs” but pasture raised are actually cheaper than battery at my local grocery the last few times I’ve gone. Kinda crazy.

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  • Joeyowlhouse@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Foam? I thought that was the most unethical method of killing them. Should be banned.

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• PanArab@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The crazy thing I used to pay about this amount ~200 yen 11 years ago.

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• Iceman@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Imagine the crazy quality egg you get in Japan for basic american egg money.

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• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The US consumers are getting shafted.

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• 1luv8008135@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What’s the average wage in $ in Japan compared to the states?

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  • rickyrigatoni@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    ¥340,000 per month which is around $2,260

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    • ThomasCrappersGhost@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What’s cost of living like?

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• samus12345@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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• Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Are Japanese folks immune?

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  • Arrkk@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The standards for eggs are really strict in Japan, eggs are so safe already that eating raw eggs is a commonly accepted practice.

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  • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I like to imagine they have higher standards at their laying facilities, but theirs could be just as monstrous as our filthy torture facilities that produce most cheap eggs here.

    Maybe bird flu just hasn’t gotten there yet.

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• LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  They’re mocking us

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  • DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    We deserve it

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• usrtrv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Don’t worry. All the savings on eggs are destroyed by 2000 yen strawberries.

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  • udon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To be fair though, February 10 is not exactly strawberry season. So that blame in part goes to this annoying “nature” dude, who came up with “seasons” and shit just to raise prices.

    The general point is true, though. Same with apples right now… you look away one second, they jump from 200 to 400円 each 😐

    At least (well, debatable) the fruit don’t shrink away at the same time like all the other goods.

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  • randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    2000 yen for strawberries? How much strawberry is that? I got a handful of strawberries for ¥862 today.

    Yes, the rice is expensive.

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    • usrtrv@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I was being slightly hypobolic. Because yes there are strawberries under 2000 as well. Even 800 yen is high compared to the states.

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  • randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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    This is what the ¥862 strawberries look like.

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    • WalnutLum@lemmy.ml ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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      Just got these from the grocery store and they’re like the size of an apple.

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• Corno@lemm.ee ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Now I’m really craving some boiled eggs… Fortunately they’re worth around $3 USD here for a dozen!

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