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Egg Grades
Blinky wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, I checked the egg section when I was buying some
> today at the supermarket, for *grades*. �I found that everything was
> marked Grade AA with two exceptions. �Those exceptions we
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> 1. Jumbos of the same brand that was by far the most prevalent on the
> shelves were Grade A while all of their other sizes were Grade AA
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> 2. One brand of marked-organic XLG and LG eggs - and I think that were the
> only sizes available from that brand - were Grade A.
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> I did not see any jumbos by any other supplier than the one mentioned
> above (Trafficanda Ranch). �So there were no AA jumbos available. �While
> this is a tiny sampling, I'm still wondering of there is something about
> jumbos that make them inherently Grade A. �I don't care what I eat,
> between AA and A; this is just a curiosity thing.
http://www.aeb.org/LearnMore/EggFacts.htm#grading
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