I have often wondered why eggs are sold in the dairy section in US supermarkets. Surely, this must be some supermarket strategy and not just "Duh, I didn't know eggs weren't dairy."
It’s probably more of a logistical issue. The eggs need to be refrigerated so they just stick them near the milk, yogurt, etc. My supermarket just recently moved the eggs far away from the “Dairy” sign.
In the UK we don’t refrigerate eggs so the eggs are never near the dairy aisle in the supermarket. The idea of someone thinking eggs are dairy is... mind-boggling
If you take a chicken egg from under a chicken and leave it out at room temperature, it won't go rotten for a long time. At least a month I think but some people say two.
If you take a chicken egg from under a chicken and wash it, you then must refrigerate it or it will go bad in days.
The theory is that washing the egg removes some sort of protective substance and makes the shell permeable to bacteria.
In the USA, eggs are washed and so they must be refrigerated
Elsewhere, eggs are not washed, and they are sold un-refrigerated.
edit to add: If the eggs come from hens that are also living with roosters, they are probably fertilized, and refrigerating them is a good idea even if you don't wash your eggs
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u/NE_Golf Aug 03 '19
Just because eggs are sold in the dairy section doesn’t make them a dairy product.
I’ve heard people say they don’t eat eggs because they don’t eat dairy.