The fact is that they were getting many complaints about the amount of plastic used in their packaging, so they have withdrawn this surprising product.

The inventor, Javier Yzuel, who came up with ready-fried eggs in a packet said that he had noticed that people have far less time available to cook, so, through his company, Foods 360, he experimented and found that by cooking at around 65ºC for just long enough to cook the white and begin the yolk, he could stop the cooking process dead, slap it in plastic and sell a packet of two fried eggs.

Mercandona liked the idea and started selling them at 1.80 euros for a packet of two. If you look carefully at the image you will see that the use-by date is in 2022 on the label , so they had been selling them for two years at least under the housebrand, Hacendo.

The instructions were, put them in the microwave for 30 seconds to finish off the cooking and hey presto! Now, you’re probably thinking what we immediately thought: it only takes that long to do a friend egg in a frying pan anyway, so where’s the time saving?

As we said above, many people were annoyed by the amount of plastic used in the packaging. Now, Yzuel had wanted them to be packaged in recyclable fibres but getting it approved in Spain, where administrations work at the speed of an advancing glacier would take too long. So they sold on normal plastic.

Just a quick aside, have you noticed that they charge 15 cents for a plastic shopping bag to cut back on plastic, yet your shopping bag is filled with products in layers of plastic?

But anyway, Mercadona was not the only outlet as the factory, which is in Teruel, turns out 40,000 ready-fried eggs every day… the hens must be exhausted!

One last thing, somebody pointed out that allegedly Mercadona came up with the ready-boiled eggs to give their fresh ones an extended lease of life when they are reaching their BBF dates…

(News: Spain)