[dfwgator]

In Europe they don’t refrigerate the eggs, you buy them off the shelf at room temperature.

[Jamestown1630]

That’s because they aren’t washed in some European nations.

Eggs naturally have a thin coating when they come out of the hen, which helps keep them fresh and protects from disease getting on the surface, and in turn into the egg itself. In the US, we wash that off, so the eggs have to be refrigerated.

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2014/09/11/336330502/why-the-u-s-chills-its-eggs-and-most-of-the-world-doesnt

[Nervous Tick]

>> In Europe they don’t refrigerate the eggs, you buy them off the shelf at room temperature.

They don’t use deodorant, either.
I don’t know what that has to do with the price of eggs in France but I thought I’d mention it anyway!

[ansel12]

Eggs lose quality rapidly at room temperature which is why I was glad that California passed a law around 1996/7? that the stores have to refrigerate them.