Comments on: I’m an egg seller http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/ Links, thoughts, and what-not from Athens, GA Mon, 21 May 2012 13:28:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: rob http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-98118 Sat, 07 Jul 2007 21:37:59 +0000 http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-98118 i want to buy sum kestrel eggs ive heard u need to obtain a lincense to keep kestrels? could you please get back intouch with some informations thanks rob i want to buy sum kestrel eggs ive heard u need to obtain a lincense to keep kestrels? could you please get back intouch with some informations thanks rob

]]> by: M http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-1150 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-1150 See...all that talk about "grades" and "size" not mattering really WAS a bunch of crap. See…all that talk about “grades” and “size” not mattering really WAS a bunch of crap.

]]> by: Matt http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-1151 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-1151 Is the grading/sizing equipment expensive? Do they (you know, THEM) manufacture hand equipemnt for grading/sizing? Is the grading/sizing equipment expensive? Do they (you know, THEM) manufacture hand equipemnt for grading/sizing?

]]> by: Jen http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-1152 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-1152 I remember this great local farm in Maine that we used to get eggs from (you know, when I lived in Maine).. you'd stop by and go down into the cellar where the eggs were also (you guessed it) separated by grade and size. But (seeing as I was probably, what, 12?) mostly I remember that they had brown eggs. For some reason brown eggs have always seemed better to me than white ones. Green ones take the cake, though. I think the Ag Council should just make people sort their eggs by color. I remember this great local farm in Maine that we used to get eggs from (you know, when I lived in Maine).. you’d stop by and go down into the cellar where the eggs were also (you guessed it) separated by grade and size. But (seeing as I was probably, what, 12?) mostly I remember that they had brown eggs. For some reason brown eggs have always seemed better to me than white ones. Green ones take the cake, though. I think the Ag Council should just make people sort their eggs by color.

]]> by: eric http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-1153 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-1153 Matt, if I were to follow every letter of the law, the cost would be prohibitive, yes. I suppose that's one reason why the big companies are so adamant about lobbying to make everyone follow the same rules, and not just in the egg business. I can make a candler (a bright light that shines though the egg) for not too much maoney, and find an inexpensive postage scale to weight the eggs. But every carton is supposed to be labelled in a certain way -- I'm not allowed to recycle other cartons. And they have to be stored "and displayed" in refrigeration under 45 degrees (not something easily done out in a parking lot under a tent). But I'm creative, so there'll be a way to make it work. Also, Jen, the inspector had never seen a green egg before. Asked me if it was a chicken egg. His candler wouldn't shine through it very well (making grading near impossible, natch). He commented, "That's why we southerners prefer white eggs. You can see what's in 'em." Matt, if I were to follow every letter of the law, the cost would be prohibitive, yes. I suppose that’s one reason why the big companies are so adamant about lobbying to make everyone follow the same rules, and not just in the egg business. I can make a candler (a bright light that shines though the egg) for not too much maoney, and find an inexpensive postage scale to weight the eggs. But every carton is supposed to be labelled in a certain way — I’m not allowed to recycle other cartons. And they have to be stored “and displayed” in refrigeration under 45 degrees (not something easily done out in a parking lot under a tent). But I’m creative, so there’ll be a way to make it work.

Also, Jen, the inspector had never seen a green egg before. Asked me if it was a chicken egg. His candler wouldn’t shine through it very well (making grading near impossible, natch). He commented, “That’s why we southerners prefer white eggs. You can see what’s in ‘em.”

]]> by: M http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-1154 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-1154 At the natural food store we used to collect used egg cartons from patrons to return to The Egg People, our local small-to-medium-size egg producer (their business was small-to-medium, not the eggs...well, I suppose the eggs were too)...then, maybe around 1997 or 1998 they told us to stop collecting the cartons, because they weren't allowed to recycle them anymore...people never did stop bringing the cartons in...after a while we stopped bothering to tell them to stop and just recycled them with the other cardboard. At the natural food store we used to collect used egg cartons from patrons to return to The Egg People, our local small-to-medium-size egg producer (their business was small-to-medium, not the eggs…well, I suppose the eggs were too)…then, maybe around 1997 or 1998 they told us to stop collecting the cartons, because they weren’t allowed to recycle them anymore…people never did stop bringing the cartons in…after a while we stopped bothering to tell them to stop and just recycled them with the other cardboard.

]]> by: Jen http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-1155 Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.ericwagoner.com/weblog/archives/2002/06/25/im-an-egg-seller/#comment-1155 "That's why we southerners prefer white eggs..." yet another indication that I am not a southerner... like we didn't already know that. “That’s why we southerners prefer white eggs…” yet another indication that I am not a southerner… like we didn’t already know that.

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