Remember the paper egg carton?

[Tizeye]

No I am not talking about that formed paper that enclosed looks like a paper version of the Styrofoam carton. I am talking vintage. They were great. With four fingers, I could lift 4 dozen eggs from the shipping crate info the dairy cooler, all in one motion. Of course, my mother who never shopped at the store I was a bag/stockboy tapped me on the shoulder as I was doing that, and one lid came open. Clean-up on the dairy aisle...oh wait, that me that does the cleanup.

 

 

[MickinMD]

I don't remember before the formed paper cartons came out, but that's probably because I didn't pay attention to them - mom had a plastic egg tray to hold them in the refrigerator. I vaguely remember her checking the carton to see if there were broken eggs before buying them, but can't picture the carton.

 

[Tizeye]

5 hours ago, MickinMD said:

I vaguely remember her checking the carton to see if there were broken eggs before buying them, but can't picture the carton.

 

I still check them before I buy them.  We don't buy many eggs, usually a half dozen which means in addition to normal bulk handling, the carton has been cut in half. The 'budget' eggs still come in Styrofoam cartons rather than the formed paper cartons premium eggs come in, so easier to cut in half but probably a matter of time before the Styrofoam goes the same path as the original paper carton used in the 60's and 70's.

[Longjohn]

I didn’t remember them until you talked about them. I wonder why they changed? Maybe less breakage? Cheaper?

[Tizeye]

25 minutes ago, Longjohn said:

I didn’t remember them until you talked about them. I wonder why they changed? Maybe less breakage? Cheaper?

The only reason I remembered them when reading the paper bag thread  was working in a grocery store during high school years and taking second and third finger on both hands, sliding under the lid, and lifting 4 dozen at a time to stock the shelves/cooler.

Buying eggs (or Oeulf) in Switzerland is a different experience.  While most are in a formed paper carton, other in a hard cellophane package (like strawberries are packaged in). The are room temp on regular shelves and not necessary to refrigerate when home. Also, some are colored like Easter eggs. The colored eggs are to let you know they have been hard boiled vs the normal white or brown eggs.

[Fret Buzz]

16 hours ago, Tizeye said:

Remember the paper egg carton?

Nope.  But it has to be a bazillion times better than a styrofoam or plastic carton.

[Kzoo]

I don't remember those.  I can remember the formed paper egg cartons for as far back...

As an pre-teen, early teen, I liked to grow plants for the garden and start trees from seeds (pines mostly).  I used the egg cartons with garden dirt.  I don't remember the ones @Tizeye showed.