On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:16:41 -0000 (UTC), Jethro_uk
wrote:

On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 11:13:34 +0000, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
T i m wrote:
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Interesting. What is your most frequent purchase at a supermarket? Milk
kept in a fridge will last the best part of a week. Eggs much longer.

UK eggs do not need to be kept in the fridge (notice they aren't at the
supermarket).

Refrigerating eggs is a Yank habit (like pasteurising everything) because
(for some reason) they wash the eggs which removes the airtight
protection.

I knew a guy who grew tomatoes (commercially) and also kept a few
chickens for their eggs.

Because some of the eggs had some chicken cr*p on them he washed them
in a bucket of water and many of the people who ate them got food
poisoning. ;-(

I think eggs have a permeable membrane and that allowed the
contaminated water into the egg. ;-(

Cheers, T i m