just when you think you have seen everything

[lewy]

I was just up at the supermarket i couldn't believe this, A couple changing the large eggs out of the large egg carton into the small egg carton and vice versa and then taking the small eggs carton [full of large eggs] to the checkout because the small eggs are cheaper,

[mcrover]

By about 5c.

I bet that was so they had enough money to by a pack of smokes each and some Jim Beam :twisted:

[rovercare]

By about 5c.

I bet that was so they had enough money to by a pack of smokes each and some Jim Beam :twisted:

Darwin hey? maybe you meant VB, petrol and coke:wasntme:

[mcrover]

Darwin hey? maybe you meant VB, petrol and coke:wasntme:


:twobeers: Close enough :D

[DiscoStew]

By about 5c.

I bet that was so they had enough money to by a pack of smokes each and some Jim Beam :twisted:

Might only be 5c but it is the principle of the thing. Why should they pay 5c more than they have to??

[Xavie]

lol. that is hillarious. I have to admit I was trying to decide on eggs the other day and was wondering if any one did that. LOL

The only part which annoys me if I was the next person to come along and get the cheapo eggs and pay more for it.

Xav

[rovercare]

Might only be 5c but it is the principle of the thing. Why should they pay 5c more than they have to??

For the bigger eggs?:confused: that would be why they're 5c dearer

[Disco_owner]

For the bigger eggs?:confused: that would be why they're 5c dearer


:D:D:D:D

[Slunnie]

Well.....


I hope they did check the prices.....



Around here the biggest eggs are the cheapest also. :eek:



So they may very well have changed the eggs into boxs to infact pay more money for the eggs. :Rolling:



Serve them right. Pathetic theives. :mad:

[justinc]

A bit Off topic,

The organic free range ones are about $3 more a dozen. The other day someone was jumping up and down with glee at the checkout after paying $1.99 for 12 cage eggs, but seeing the atrocious conditions the chooks live in, i'd gladly pay more to support free range healthy chicken/ egg production. If only more people realised where some of the eggs / chooks come from, if they could see it first hand they'd soon change their minds.
My eldest daughter wants to become a 'battery hen liberator' when she leaves school!:D:D:D
I just buy the free range ones and eat less of them, keeps the costs down:)

JC

[Narangga]

I was just up at the supermarket i couldn't believe this, A couple changing the large eggs out of the large egg carton into the small egg carton and vice versa and then taking the small eggs carton [full of large eggs] to the checkout because the small eggs are cheaper,

In a word:









PALMERSTON!

[dmdigital]

In a word:
PALMERSTON!
:Rolling::Rolling:

[LSBob]

As Stuuu said, and I agree ....:o







Palmerslum






Also don't forget that Andy and Karen had travelled through Europe, Iran, Pakistan and India and the only time some one tried to break into their vehicle was in ????

:wasntme:

[Narangga]

As Stuuu said, and I agree ....:o







Palmerslum






Also don't forget that Andy and Karen had travelled through Europe, Iran, Pakistan and India and the only time some one tried to break into their vehicle was in ????

:wasntme:

Keep that up Bob and you'll need to rely on Derek and I to turn up to meetings to get someone to talk to!

[LSBob]

Getting a bit warm for meetings now :beer: and there is 16 days left before I head off for a holiday. :woot:so you will have to stir some one else then.:D

[lewy]

so bob hows the crime rate in karama

[3 Lions]

A bit Off topic,

The organic free range ones are about $3 more a dozen. The other day someone was jumping up and down with glee at the checkout after paying $1.99 for 12 cage eggs, but seeing the atrocious conditions the chooks live in, i'd gladly pay more to support free range healthy chicken/ egg production. If only more people realised where some of the eggs / chooks come from, if they could see it first hand they'd soon change their minds.
My eldest daughter wants to become a 'battery hen liberator' when she leaves school!:D:D:D
I just buy the free range ones and eat less of them, keeps the costs down:)

JC

I always buy free range eggs, have done for years even before I moved to Oz. For exactly the reasons you quote, maybe dearer, but will never buy 'battery caged eggs'.

[p38arover]

My eldest daughter wants to become a 'battery hen liberator' when she leaves school!:D:D:D

I read a scientific article last week about stress in chooks. Battery hens are no more stressed than free range - free range chooks can have higher stress.

[Disco Steve]

Its pathetic what people will do to save $$$.

[abaddonxi]

I read a scientific article last week about stress in chooks. Battery hens are no more stressed than free range - free range chooks can have higher stress.

How do you recognise if a chook is stressed?

Simon

[walker]

A bit Off topic,

The organic free range ones are about $3 more a dozen. The other day someone was jumping up and down with glee at the checkout after paying $1.99 for 12 cage eggs, but seeing the atrocious conditions the chooks live in, i'd gladly pay more to support free range healthy chicken/ egg production. If only more people realised where some of the eggs / chooks come from, if they could see it first hand they'd soon change their minds.
My eldest daughter wants to become a 'battery hen liberator' when she leaves school!:D:D:D
I just buy the free range ones and eat less of them, keeps the costs down:)

JC


I'm with you Justin, I will only buy free range after working 1 day at a battery hen farm, same with the chicken, we only buy free range chicken.

But people go on about the shocking conditions chickens are kept in but I can tell you pigs are much worse off than chickens. If you ever saw what some of the piggeries are like down here, it would almost put you off backon for life. I noticed some supermarkets are now selling free range pork.

[p38arover]

How do you recognise if a chook is stressed?

Simon

They get all uptight!

My grandfather had a poultry farm when I was about 12. I lived there so I'm not that bothered by them.. However, for years afterward I wouldn't eat chicken, ducks, or turkey. I'd had too much when I was a kid. (I wouldn't eat strawberries either after spending weeks picking them as a youth. I still rarely eat them.)

[Blknight.aus]

Its pathetic what people will do to save $$$.

says the bloke too cheap to buy the whole pushbike for his poser avatar pic:p

[Xavie]

I read a scientific article last week about stress in chooks. Battery hens are no more stressed than free range - free range chooks can have higher stress.

Yes, I have done a fair bit of reading on this over time and it is interesting for someone who keeps chooks anyway. They say the stress levels have been shown to be far higher when more then a few birds are present in the pen due to how they relate to each other and they often get very bad injuries when free range due to fighting etc...

[Panda]

Did you dob the cheap *rse scum bags in??

I'm the same, will always pay a bit more & get free range eggs.

[hiline]

the wife and i witnessed a lady doing that same thing :mad:

she was taking the good expensive eggs and changing them into the no name
cartons at half the price .............

so feeling abit peeved if it was me paying top dollar for good eggs and getting her exchanged cheap eggs i dobbed her in to the store manager :D:D:D

let me tell you she wasn't so happy then :2up:

so now we always check the egg stamps to make sure we are getting the right ones ;)

[DirtyDawg]

I have chickens so I don't buy eggs, but how sad that an adult in this century has to stoop to suchsocial levels...I would had to say something understanding and sensitive.....lik 'what are you doing you cheap ****, **** off before I DOB YOU IN":D

[LSBob]

so bob hows the crime rate in karama


Checked the October police stats, Alice Springs beats them all, Karama only got 2 entrys, Millner went real quiet ever since one family moved out a couple of years ago.

[BigJon]

Checked the October police stats, Alice Springs beats them all,

And you are surprised by that? :p

[EchiDna]

ok - the student favourite when I was in Uni was tearing the stalks off mushrooms (sold in paper bags by weight) and the tops off the hydro tomatoes and claiming they were the crappy "normal" tomatoes....

never seen the egg trick, but nothing would surprise me!

[JamesH]

How do you recognise if a chook is stressed?

Simon

They run around like a human with its head cut off.

I heard that the happiest chook is in a semi-free range state. The ones in big yards are attacked by raptors all the time.

[Panda]

the wife and i witnessed a lady doing that same thing :mad:

she was taking the good expensive eggs and changing them into the no name
cartons at half the price .............

so feeling abit peeved if it was me paying top dollar for good eggs and getting her exchanged cheap eggs i dobbed her in to the store manager :D:D:D

Good on you! Might make her think about it the second time! Strangely enough I was buying some face cream from Woollies once. Going through the checkout, they opened the box to examine the contents. I asked them why (being as naive as I apparently am), & the woman said people frequently swap the contents by putting the cheaper products in the more expensive boxes, so they pay less for the better creams! I was astounded!

let me tell you she wasn't so happy then :2up:

so now we always check the egg stamps to make sure we are getting the right ones ;)


I wonder what other products they "swap" to "save" money!

[Shonky]

Each week my mum comes back to Sydney on Saturday and brings a carton for me and a carton for my sister. Your own eggs always taste better. :D

[29dinosaur]

Our local woolies supermarket is going to put in scan and process your own checkout. Apparently 1 staff/6 registers. I can foresee expensive fruit vegies being scanned and entered using lowest price. Bag some higher price fruit - tomatoes are a classic, hit lower price tomato off screen and bingo - 1 staff/6 registers.... somehow those people putting expensive face creams into cheaper brand boxes aren't going to have their stuff checked.

[Pedro_The_Swift]

They run around like a human with its head cut off.

I heard that the happiest chook is in a semi-free range state. The ones in big yards are attacked by raptors all the time.

https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/11/577.jpg

must be a big backyard!!!
:p

[JohnF]

ok - the student favourite when I was in Uni was tearing the stalks off mushrooms (sold in paper bags by weight) and the tops off the hydro tomatoes and claiming they were the crappy "normal" tomatoes....

never seen the egg trick, but nothing would surprise me!

the stalks are great eating--I always eat them

[JohnF]

Friend who fixes my cars, has another friend--a brother of a former employer of mine, who breeds chooks for markets in large sheds. When visiting his sheds, in the corner of the shed was a heap of several chooks that had died through the night. My mechanic friend said to him "you must eat a lot of Chicken." The battery farmer replied "come out to the back of my house." There was another small outside chookyard there. This chook farmer said "we eat only the chooks and eggs from our personal Chookyard, never will eat those from the big sheds." It is all in how they are raised and what they are fed. So enjoy your next Chicken dinner, or omelet.

[disco2hse]

says the bloke too cheap to buy the whole pushbike for his poser avatar pic:p

:clap2::Rolling::Rolling:

[29dinosaur]

:clap2::Rolling::Rolling:

Yes I guess it looks like a unicycle in the avatar Steve.

[isuzurover]

Friend who fixes my cars, has another friend--a brother of a former employer of mine, who breeds chooks for markets in large sheds. When visiting his sheds, in the corner of the shed was a heap of several chooks that had died through the night. My mechanic friend said to him "you must eat a lot of Chicken." The battery farmer replied "come out to the back of my house." There was another small outside chookyard there. This chook farmer said "we eat only the chooks and eggs from our personal Chookyard, never will eat those from the big sheds." It is all in how they are raised and what they are fed. So enjoy your next Chicken dinner, or omelet.

I will - we grow our own poultry. Had one of our pheasants for dinner last night. It was delicious! We have a few ducks and geese which are almost the right size for the pot too.

Btw - on the free range vs cage argument:
https://www.aulro.com/afvb/images/imported/2008/11/568.jpg
The yolk on the left is from a caged bird, the yolk on the right from a free-range bird.

[abaddonxi]

I judge a good egg on how well the albumen and yolk hold together when broken, and all of those other things after that.

A while back I bought a pack of those fancy 10 to a box organic, no antibiotic eggs. The dates were good, four or five weeks away, but the eggs still fell apart when I broke them into a bowl. Talked to the chicken guy who couldn't explain why they looked like very low quality eggs.

Speaking of chickens, anyone remember the days when the bones in a roast chook'd pierce your tongue if you bit them the wrong way. These days chicken bones, even the free range, blah, blah, blah ones are more like sliced white than skewer.

That's something, it seems, you can only get with a homegrown chook.

Cheers
Simon

[rovercare]

I judge a good egg on how well the albumen and yolk hold together when broken, and all of those other things after that.


Cheers
Simon

I prefer to judge eggs by taste:D

Spent enough time at poultry farms, to make me glad, I'm higher up the food chain:eek:

[straydog]

We live in suburban Gladesville Sydney & have 3 chickens (isa browns off Don burke's factsheet)
Burke's Backyard > Fact Sheets > Cross Bred Chooks (http://www.burkesbackyard.com.au/2003/archives/2003/roadtests/birds/cross_bred_chooks)
From those three birds we get 2x eggs a day...we cannot keep up with the eating, give most away to neighbours & family. We just leave the door of the coop open 24hrs & the birds roam the back yard. We mainly got them for our new daughter (20 months now) who loves to chase them. We also have two golden retrievers...& yes, they all get on well. At night sometimes the chickens & dogs share the same bed...
The eggs are fantastic...& yes you can change the colour of the egg yolks by modifying their diets...I couldn't live without them now, my garden buddies.
I suggest everyone get chickens....:D.
Re the egg switches, karma will have its day. lets face it, most people do it...wether in the form of tax cheats, builders over ordering on govt jobs or egg stealers, asking for 10% off to pay cash instead for building work/renno's. People will be people...I would rather dob in the people that dump their MacDonalds wrapers/rubbish out of their cars all over the road/parks & schools :confused:...why do that!

[abaddonxi]

I prefer to judge eggs by taste:D

Spent enough time at poultry farms, to make me glad, I'm higher up the food chain:eek:

I like a fried egg to look like a fried one, not scrambled. If I'm cooking something with beaten egg whites, I like to be able to separate the whites from the yolks, and be able to get decent froth from the whites.

My sister keeps chooks, I can't unless they roost in potplants, the eggs from her chickens tastes like prawns to me. Dunno why, she doesn't eat seafood, so no fishy scraps to the chooks, but I prefer not to them eggs.

Cheers
Simon

[lewy]

go to the local place that sell chook food and get some cracked corn to mix with the chook food it will help to yellow the yolk.i also used to feed the chooks wheat but you had to boil it to make it expand first. why because i am a cheapskate.