• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    I wonder how many countries sell eggs in dozens vs tens. I know Japan sells 10. I feel like if the dozen concept isn’t in the language it’s kind of a random quantity.

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      10 hours ago

      Denmark here, depending on supermarket and brand, you usually get them in 6, 8 and 10. Less common is 4 and they are usually large eggs. 15 and 30 is also a thing but not something I look for so I might underrepresent them in my comment

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      11 hours ago

      Dozen is likely just technically easier, since if you split it in half, you get 6, but if you split 10 half, you get 5. And only 5 is harder to package. I’ve seen 4 eggs sold as well, but 6 and 12 are probably close enough, around the numbers people reasonably need.

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      12 hours ago

      Where I live in Colombia, we can get eggs in dozens, but it’s more common to find packs of 15 or 30 in the supermarket.

      If I shop at the mom-and-pop tienda on my block, they’ll sell me exactly the number of eggs I ask for.