i like when you’re in the grocery store and you see people buying eggs because they always pick up the carton and then open it like it’s a metal briefcase full of cash involved in a drug deal and they’re confirming it’s money. “don’t bother counting it, it’s all there. 12.” then they always pick one up and inspect it like, “yeah, it’s grade A alright…the real deal.”
People are checking to see if any of the eggs are cracked you walnut
Tbh, I always saw my mom check the eggs in the carton and for the longest time I didn’t know why and everytime I went out and bought eggs I’d copy her because that’s what everyone does, open the carton. So I’d always just end up staring at an open carton of eggs in the grocery store thinking “Yes. These are eggs”. And I’d buy them.
Smh how come y’all never asked why? I’ve known since elementary school
Social anxiety is usually the answer.
FYI for folk who wondered but didn’t want to ask, you open the carton and gently twist each egg in its socket. If the egg moves smoothly, the shell isn’t cracked. If it sticks, there’s probably a crack underneath (the yolk sticks to the cardboard) and you should not buy it (cracked eggs are potentially sick-making eggs).
Likewise, when buying meat, check to make sure that the plastic wrap is intact, and there’s no juice leaking through. If there is, and you can, you’d be doing a good thing to bring it to the store manager’s attention.
Reblogging for people who didn’t know. I knew but both those techniques are very useful. 🙂
Reblogging for useful knowledge! I’ve been grocery shopping with my dad since I was a toddler, and one of my responsibilities was always the egg checking, so it never occurred to me that people might not be familiar with why it should be done.
Other things that might be useful: Don’t assume all the milk has the same expiration dates. If you notice that the milk you’ve grabbed is close to the date, rummage around for a newer carton. But please also have the decency to put things back tidily when you’re done, don’t just leave milk everywhere.
Ditto for bread. That plastic tag on the opening isn’t just to hold it shut, it’s also got a best before date on it.
Be wary when buying bagged/packaged vegetables. If anything was moist or a little overripe during the packaging process, it’s likely spread. Check the bottom of the container/bag/etc, give it a light shake to move things around a bit.
Most big chains will give you the price per item and the price per gram/ounce/whatever your dry and liquid measure of choice may be. Check these! Sometimes it’s a *much* better deal to buy a bigger package, especially for dry goods which you can store for a long time.
I’m sure there are tons more, but these are all good tips for staple purchases.
Watermelon should sound hollow when thumped. Thump near the top for the best test.
Canteloupe should smell like sweet melon. Smell at the end opposite where the stem was.
The lower end of the pineapple should smell nicely like pineapple. If it’s not ripe, it will smell “green”, and if it’s rotten or mouldy, you’ll smell that too.
Anything non-vegetarian that has a bloated package: Do not eat. It may contain harmful bacteria and poison.
Also, if your bread has gone mouldy, it does not help if you toast it. It isn’t the mould itself that is the problem, it’s the toxins it leaves behind.
Last but not least: Use best before dates only as a rough guidance. They’re a guarantee by the producer that the product will keep the consistency and other properties. They have nothing to do with food going bad or being unsafe after that date, and the food is perfectly fine to eat after the best before date. However, if food has a use by date (this is usually the case with fresh meat or fresh fish), then you have to throw it out after that date, because that is indeed the date until the producer guarantees that it’s safe to eat. There’s a lot of food going to waste because people think that best before dates are the same as use by dates, compounded by the problem that a lot of people have never learned how to check if their food is still safe to eat.
With eggs, my mum and I check the bottom of the closed egg carton to see if any were broken cause it would soak the cardboard and then we’d turn it upright to open the carton and just check the tops for any cracks.
Trust your nose when it comes to food. Bacteria, mold, all that stuff produces a funky smell so if you’re not sure about how good something is, give it a wiff. If it smells okay, it’s okay. If it smells off, then it’s bad.
Also, use by dates are cool but don’t mean anything if you freeze your food. Food in the freezer can spoil, but most likely it’ll just get freezer burn after like 8 months. Again, smell check it.
These tiny planthoppers are included in a complex of arthropods who, by virtue of their wing markings and postures, are believed to be mimicking jumping spiders (Salticidae) (see image below)
From a hen’s point of view, the locust is a terrifying visitor from a world that they are unable to comprehend. Therefore, the flock as a whole comes to a swift conclusion: this thing, with its bitter taste and gangly legs, must be avoided at all costs.
The very disturbed teenager at the beginning. Precious, cautious child.
Good zoos do not keep their animals in “tiny spaces” with no enrichment. I’m not pro-roadside zoo. I’m pro-accredited zoo. Zoos are incredibly important for conservation and education.
There should be way more pictures of modern zoos so i just add some more
Seriously zoos do so much important conservation work as well I hate when people shit all over zoos as if the animals are locked up and not looked after
The SF Zoo has two sea lions. Now, if you know SF, you know that sea lions are a Thing. They’re all over Pier 39 and various other beaches in N California. In fact, the zoo is near the ocean, so there are sea lions not 200 yards from the zoo entrance. So having sea lions in the zoo seems sort of superfluous.
Except the sea lions are blind. One was found as an adult after suffering a gun shot wound to the face that destroyed his eyes. The other was found as an adolescent, weak and starving because it had been blinded and unable to hunt. So they were rescued and introduced and the zoo built them a nice pool where they can swim and sunbathe and people toss them fish. It’s not the biggest exhibit, or the fanciest. But it’s a home for them, where they’re safe and well fed. Sea lions aren’t the most romantic of animals, but they’re a part of SF culture and a lot of us have a soft spot for the loud, bulbous things. And because of zoos, these two get to live long, happy lives.
Whenever anyone complains about zoos, I think about Silent Knight and Henry.
I think it’s St. Louis zoo that is saving big cats in Africa. Scientists couldn’t figure out what was killing off the local lion population. They were dying off from Canine Distemper. The local unvaccinated dogs of the towns would spread the disease to other animals or have it themselves. When the lions ate the infected animals they would catch it as well. You know what that Zoo is doing to stop this disease? They are going over to those towns and vaccinating the dogs for free. The community loves it and people from other villages comes for miles to get their dogs vaccinated as well.
They also do work with camel populations because the local human population use the camels for food sources the zoos help monitor the camels health.
Another zoo, I want to say it’s the Oregon zoo but don’t quote me on that, is helping female inmates. The zoo works with the female prisons by encouraging the inmates to assist in the breeding and raising of endangered species of butterflies. They plant the specific plants that the butterflies and catapillars need, raise them, and release them. These inmates get noted in any scientific journals that get published. They are giving these inmates a sense of accomplishment and validation.
Zoos not only save species but bring together and assist communities in an effort to save the environment. Zoos, good zoos, are essential to the future and I will fight anyone who tries to say otherwise.
PS you don’t see PETA doing any of this.
One of the local zoos in my area at one point rescued a bald eagle that had been shot and kept it in the zoo to let it recuperate until they freed it again. Some of the zoos in my state will keep injured animals there until they heal again.
Helsinki Zoo is the world leader in snow leopard and Amur leopard conservation, in their care these endangered species have managed to breed more than anywhere else in captivity and this in turn has enabled the re-introduction of these animals back to their native habitats. https://www.korkeasaari.fi/helsinki-zoo/
I work at a zoo that is instrumental in the California Condor recovery program (among dozens of other conservation projects). We went from 42 surviving individuals left to over 400, over 200 of whom are in the wild. We’re part of the amur leopard species survival plan with two young animals who are eagerly attempting to make babies. We host one of North America’s only bachelor troops of western lowland gorillas, preserving the social structure of wild gorillas. All of our bald eagles are rescues who would not survive in the wild. All our keepers participate in field research and conservation work in addition to a full time team of conservationists. We host the most genetically valuable male Masai giraffe in North America, who has sired 5 offspring with 1 on the way, increasing the genetic diversity of his entire species. If you’re against zoos, you don’t know what zoos do.
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