yes, this is an egg carton. the one you get in the shop, with eggs in it. when i took the last ones today, i suddenly saw these eggs are christian... the psalm in the carton says; "this is the day which the lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it." hmm... suddenly i felt bad we had used up a dozen eggs without knowing they are christian. yuk! but i presume it was a heavenly sign i discovered it on a sunday... no?
its also a different brand than we usually have, and i wondered where we got those eggs from. now i finally remember; from Aldi! this is a supermarket originally from germany, and it surprises me they sell christian eggs. i really wonder whether the german aldi eggs are christian too.... wikipedia tells me aldi is already in the usa since the 70s, so they had some time for religious change, i guess...
i find it really weird to see christian verses on stuff i buy. i once showed you they do it at in-n-out burger in california (although they there only refer the verse, and do not print the actual text). same with forever21, a clothing store for young people. i recently saw that their shopping bags refer to a verse as well! but i doubt that the clothes they sell at forever21 are suitable for church....
then there are some other companies that let religious beliefs have a major impact on their business model as well, here in the usa. i have been trying to come up with a dutch or european company that does that too, but i really cannot think of one. from that (haha, i could not even remember at first where bought those eggs, but well.... from that i conclude that this is something typical american... and i find it very odd!
ah, the last 4 christian eggs were used for my very first pumpkin pie, very american too. and i have to say that it is definitely not my favorite pie.... (luckily the homemade crust and the whipped cream we flavored with some brandy made up for it, a little...)
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That is very weird, never seen something like that. Can you imagine someone brought up the idea to do this and they said great idea we go for it! Ha,ha.
I've always seen the USA as secular and grew up believing that my beliefs were a private matter. After all, early settlers here were escaping religious persecution. This evangelical proChristian stuff is a more recent development, especially as Fox News has begun preaching to people about what they should think.
Kay, this pro Christian stuff is not new as Jesus walked on the earth over 2000 years ago and Fox news does not tell us to believe in our Lord and Savior, God's word does. Early settlers were escaping religious persecution on escaping Chistianity, far from it. I am also sorry but my beliefs are not private because I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Great post, very interesting.
This is pretty interesting. I spent a few minutes looking at Goldhen stuff I found through Google, but it wasn't very informative. It seems that this is a label from Aldi, or perhaps a captive egg supplier to Aldi. I have never been in an Aldi store. I wonder if the religious influence is restricted to the eggs, or if it is more widespread.
yes, i wonder actually whether aldi is aware of it? probably...
but it does seem to be restricted to the egg-supplier, perhaps they have more religious-tinted stuff; next time i will check!
there are only few aldi stores, i think. they do sell real dutch "stroopwafels" sometimes, caramel-sandwich-cookies!!
And of course when it comes to Christianity in the marketplace, you mustn't forget Chik-Fil-A, whose stores close on Sunday.
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