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Cake day: August 30th, 2024

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  • Btw I took a look at your comment and if it helps, washed eggs are good basically forever too. I never throw them away. I’ve eaten eggs that had been expired for 6 months, and while they were a little dried up (kinda dense; the white had shrunk), they were otherwise totally fine.

    You know how they say you know there’s a methane or propane leak because of the smell of rotten eggs… I’ve never smelled rotten eggs. Only propane. Eggs refuse to rot.




  • Eiri@lemmy.catoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldeggs in japan
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    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: strawberries, egg whites, sugar; eaten raw). Perplexing. Is it riskier in the US, or is the risk equally low everywhere but Americans are really paranoid?




  • I’m Canadian, but… Fruit, I guess. Some fruit we get from places like Greece, Spain or Italy, both canned and fresh. We could live without them, but surely there’d be moments in the year when we couldn’t get fresh peaches, for example, at the supermarket, without European imports.

    But it’s not a majority. We get quite a bit from South America, North Africa, and, astonishingly, as far as South Africa, too.

    Though there isn’t much else. It’s rarely worth it to import food from another rich country, all the way across the ocean, in today’s world.

    Though interestingly, I bought “canned” soup (actually packaged in a plastic bag) that came from Lithuania, of all places.