Hi, I'm David Farrier in New Zealand to accidentally marooned in America, and I want to figure out what makes this country tick.

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.

I think of it whenever I open my fridge, whenever I go to make myself some breakfast, rusting around for my favourite breakfast snack.

I love eggs from my head down to my legs.

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Yes, the incredible, edible egg. We've got them in New Zealand as well, but in America they come with a rule. A rule that's been troubling me for months.

I look on the cardboard carton of my organic large brown grade A eggs, and there it is.

Keep refrigerated at or below 45 degrees Fahrenheit.

Another month in a different brand of eggs, this time it's vital farms past your raised eggs, and there on the carton keep eggs refrigerated.

If you're an American hearing this you probably don't know what my problem is, but if you're not in America you're probably as puzzled as I am.

Why is everyone in America putting their eggs in the fridge?

Why is that valuable cold space being filled to the brim with eggs? In New Zealand we put our eggs in the pantry, or the cupboard where you're meant to.

No one in their right mind is putting their eggs in the fridge.

Fridge real estate is a valuable commodity, why would it be wasted by filling it with a load of eggs?

I've finally decided that I need to get to the bottom of this mystery.

So, grab your nearest egg, crack it open, fling it into a pan and get frying, because this is the egg episode.

Fly this, fly this, fly this bird, touch down in America.

I'm fly this bird, touch down in America.

Monica, where do you keep your eggs?

The refrigerator.

Rob eggs?

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