I wonder how many countries sell eggs in dozens vs tens. I know Japan sells 10. I feel like if the dozen concept isn’t in the language it’s kind of a random quantity.
Dozen is likely just technically easier, since if you split it in half, you get 6, but if you split 10 half, you get 5. And only 5 is harder to package. I’ve seen 4 eggs sold as well, but 6 and 12 are probably close enough, around the numbers people reasonably need.
I wonder how many countries sell eggs in dozens vs tens. I know Japan sells 10. I feel like if the dozen concept isn’t in the language it’s kind of a random quantity.
Dozen is likely just technically easier, since if you split it in half, you get 6, but if you split 10 half, you get 5. And only 5 is harder to package. I’ve seen 4 eggs sold as well, but 6 and 12 are probably close enough, around the numbers people reasonably need.
Where I live in Colombia, we can get eggs in dozens, but it’s more common to find packs of 15 or 30 in the supermarket.
If I shop at the mom-and-pop tienda on my block, they’ll sell me exactly the number of eggs I ask for.