Eggs

Flightless Bird

David Farrier

Comedy, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.9 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

In this week's Flightless Bird, David Farrier sets out to understand why Americans put their eggs in the fridge. Why the fridge, when the rest of the planet puts them in the pantry? David learns that each year each American eats an average of 277 eggs each, and that America has enough chickens to provide each American with at least an egg a day. David then discovers a plethora of organizations exist around the humble egg, from the International Egg Commission to the American Egg Board. After learning America also washes all their eggs, Farrier wonders if the two are linked. But no egg organization seems to have the answers Farrier needs - including the USDA and the FDA! Eventually Farrier finds a comrade in an egg expert at Purdue University, Darrin Karcher. Does Darrin have the answers Farrier needs? Sort of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Farrier, and New Zealand are accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.
0:08.0	Now they talk a lot about this country being the land of the free, but wherever I look there are just rules that make no sense to me, and one of them in particular has been puzzling me for about a year now.
0:18.5	I think of it whenever I open my fridge, whenever I go to make myself some breakfast rusting around for my favorite
0:25.2	breakfast snack.
0:26.2	I love it from my head down to my legs.
0:31.8	Heard the latest news about eggs and cholesterol?
0:34.2	Write for our booklet eggs and good health.
0:36.1	Oh, you've got love it.
0:37.7	The Incredible Edible Edible.
0:40.7	Yes, the Incredible Edible Egg. We've got them in New Zealand as well, but in America they come
0:46.2	with a rule, a rule that's been troubling me for months. I look on the cardboard carton of my organic
0:51.9	large brown grade A eggs and there it is.
0:55.6	Keep refrigerated at or below 45 degrees Fahrenheit.
1:00.1	Another month and a different brand of eggs this this time it's vital farms pasture raised eggs.
1:06.0	And there on the carton, keep eggs refrigerated.
1:09.5	If you're an American hearing this, you probably don't know what my problem is, but if you're not in America
1:14.5	you're probably as puzzled as I am.
1:17.0	Why is everyone in America putting their eggs in the fridge?
1:20.7	Why is that valuable cold space being filled to the brim with eggs?
1:24.8	In New Zealand we put our eggs in the pantry, or the cupboard where you're meant to.
1:28.8	No one in their right mind is putting their eggs in the fridge.
1:31.6	Fridge real estate is a
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