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Something subtly unusual about this egg carton from Denmark… it holds only 10 eggs. We asked a handy Dane whether this were standard, and she answered yes: eggs are sold by tens in Denmark, and they have the linguistic concept of a dozen, but rarely use it anymore, because the metric system is all 10s so it seems more reasonable for everything to come in 10s. (This was her theory, anyway.)
… it makes perfect sense but it makes me wonder about other places. Do eggs come in dozens anywhere else???? (I don’t recall my time in the UK, I was so young and oblivious I have no memory of ever buying eggs there!)
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Something subtly unusual about this egg carton from Denmark… it holds only 10 eggs. We asked a handy Dane whether this were standard, and she answered yes: eggs are sold by tens in Denmark, and they have the linguistic concept of a dozen, but rarely use it anymore, because the metric system is all 10s so it seems more reasonable for everything to come in 10s. (This was her theory, anyway.)
… it makes perfect sense but it makes me wonder about other places. Do eggs come in dozens anywhere else???? (I don’t recall my time in the UK, I was so young and oblivious I have no memory of ever buying eggs there!)
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