Anyone fancy 100g of eggs for breakfast?

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Well? WELL?!

No I am not making this up. The EU says so.

Well, how many grams/egg (metric illiterate american here)?

I just had 4 medium eggs on a bed of shredded potatoes, topped with salsa and 6 slices of bacon on the side...

Two eggs.

I'm highlighting the ridiculous ruling from Brussels that says that traders must supply eggs in metric.

Metric as opposed to?

Sorry, I don't understand the bizarre English measurement system - and I'm from a former English colony! And I find that most of the EU's rulings are based on intelligent and logical decisions.

I see. I was thinking nutritional guidelines...

Now that I understand, I agree. Anything requiring metrics is, by nature, ridiculous.

... not to mention eggs already come in their own, handy unit of measure!

Per egg!

It's been greeted with ridicule here in Britain. I wonder what Danes think about it.

Maby I need to be in the UK to understand? Here you can buy eggs by the 6, 12 or 18 as standard. They are graded into size of eggs. So if you want 45g eggs get them. If you like bigger eggs get the 55g or 65g if that's the size you like. Am I missing something? I can't see the problem.

Peace ellomo

Base twelve is a better base for measuring things than base ten is - it divides up much better (1,2,3,4,6,12 as opposed to 1,2,5,10) - if everybody would agree to grow an extra couple of fingers, it'd be great. Britain is metric these days - it's very funny that the greatest user of Imperial measurements in the world is the US.

But yeah, the idea of buying eggs by weight rather than by "this is an eggbox with six eggs" is stupid. Like the straight banana myth, it isn't quite true...

We buy our eggs the same way. The EU wants us to buy 600g of eggs in future rather than the dozen that normal people buy.

Ah ok...yea that sounds silly to me to.


Peace ellomo

They don't, as the BBC page I linked points out. What they want to do is to include the mass of eggs on packaging. That does not preclude labelling them as "a dozen eggs" - what it means is that they want the label to say "a dozen eggs (600g)." It's pretty pointless, but it isn't saying "thou shalt not sell a dozen eggs."

I'd missed that link, thanks Ambivalence.
That makes alot more sense and no, I can't see there is any problem.
Sounds better to me. Now you can buy a dozen eggs that have been graded into a set of standard sizes not just 12 eggs in a carton of varied size?

Peace ellomo

why finland is in eu too but we still have 12 packs not grams (all thought they are marked in box but thats finlands law)

You woke me up, and made me hungry.

Oh, now I get what you mean. When you said "for breakfast" I thought you literally meant ... for breakfast. Eggs will probably always be sold by dozens or factors thereof, but using metric weight in addition to that is important because egg sizes vary. Assuming I'm actually getting the point now.

Yes, I'd like 100g of eggs, 75.6g of toast and 45kg of that's ridiculous.