Transportation of eggs

[Cudzoziemiec]

IIRC the plastic egg boxes failed in even more satisfyingly crunchy, crackly ways. That was probably their only advantage over cardboard ones. We don't recycle egg boxes here, we return them to the shop when the pile gets too high. But you have to have the right sort of shop for this, I guess.

[L CC]

Cheap eggs from badly treated hens still come in plastic boxes.

This is a 'welcome to the real world' announcement.

[woollypigs]

Our egg man grumbled a bit today when I handed over a pile of supermarket empties.

[hellymedic]

I think some eggs delivered by my milkman arrive in plastic boxes.

[Jurek]

Cheap eggs from badly treated hens still come in plastic boxes.

This is a 'welcome to the real world' announcement.

I must be leading a first world life.
It is years since I've seen a plastic egg box.

[jane]

Even the cheap eggs round here come in cardboard boxes. 

[jane]

And, like Helly, have carried eggs just in their boxes in my shopping panniers for years.  Also transported a dozen eggs to Dunwich on several DunRuns to make fried egg sandwiches on the beach.  Don't remember ever breaking one...as long as they dont have space to rattle around in, they seem to be fine.

[Jurek]

Seen today:
Plastick egg boxes in Lidl in Sydenham.
I was in there looking for a bargainacious LED torch.
Fail.

....... Also transported a dozen eggs to Dunwich on several DunRuns to make fried egg sandwiches on the beach.  ........

I remember those! Nom!

[Cudzoziemiec]

Six eggs in a normal cardboard egg box survived transportation in a pannier with no extra packing for two days, though I did put them inside a suitably sized rectangular pot on the second day. Mind you, they were Groucho and Frank's finest (but so was the exploding spinach thing).

[nikki]

Whatever Springhill Tesco are doing, I propose we do it different.

[andrewc]

That's their Quick Cook range , pre-scrambled eggs...

[hujev]

Wisecrack only here, but I remember when I lived in the xUSSR in the early 90s I bought one of those plastic things thinking it'd be great, and first time I tried it, I closed it up at the shop and it broke all the eggs - the egg-compartments were too small!

(on the other hand, the light bulbs they sold there lasted forever!)

Soviet design!

So I went back with the hand-rolled paper cone the shop ladies would wrap them up for you in.

[Canardly]

As above, my experience with plastic egg carriers has not been a happy one. Do they have smaller eggs in China?

[Poly Hive]

We watched in amazement as a couple bumped through the road works in Goa with the pillion person holding a plastic bag of at least a dozen eggs. Must have tougher shells than ours!

PH