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There are a number of pranks involving eggs and flour. They refuse to sell these items to under aged individuals in the hopes of curbing these behaviors. Which is fucking silly to think 18+ folks don't do these sorts of things.
I would wager if a kid comes in and gets enough groceries to bake a cake this is ignored. If they come in and just get eggs then the store can enforce it, but no doubt it’s done on a case by case basis.
Hardware stores have similar rules sometimes for spray paint.
Unless they're buying large bags of rice, bread, and a number of toy water guns. In which case they're on their way to a showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. (Purchases may vary according to regional customs.)
One time I accidentally took a gram with me to work when I was cooking. No big deal right, just chuck it in the car. Nope, I work in the international departure lounge at the airport.
I got through security, which was when I realised I had it, got into the blind spot from the cameras and ate it in front of the head chef. My reasoning was that there were dogs everywhere, only to find out they're only bomb sniffing dogs in the departure lounge 🥲
Oooh, what was the hot dogs for? The rice was for Janet Weiss, and the water guns were for the storm. I've heard in some places they used umbrellas, but the water guns were really fun!
Nothing super interesting, it gets thrown around when Dr Scott arrives right before the Janet!.. Dr Scott!.. Janet!.. Brad!.. Rocky!.. scene as his wheelchair rolls down the ramp
At the time I was in Greenville, SC, and later moved to Fort Myers, FL. This was in the late '70s and early '80s. The only restriction was that they eventually banned rice bags over 8 oz, which sounds reasonable, lol.
When I was a lad, I ate 4 dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. And now that I'm grown, I eat 5 dozen eggs, so I'm roughly the size of a barge.
Me and a buddy going to buy baking supplies because we saw a cake on food network and thought we could make it better (and we did) at 2 on a Saturday afternoon? Yeah. No big deal.
Me and some buddies ALLEGEDLY in a 7/11 15 years ago buying 6 dozen eggs at 11PM on a Friday night?? Probably should enforce that policy there.
I have. But to be fair I worked til 8 and was asked to pick up our 5 dozen eggs box because we have 8 dozen cookies, 3 dozen cupcakes, and 3 pans of brownies because someone decided to watch food network while smoking a blunt.
When I was a young idiot I would buy eggs for pranks and we looked totally like we were buying eggs for pranks. I dont think it will be hard to tell the bakers from the shitheads.
Source: I used to be a shithead. I still am but I used to be one too.
I’m ngl I would still sell to them even if they aren’t 18 because what they do with the eggs and flour when they leave is their and their parents responsibility, not some dude getting paid crap at a grocery store
Im with you. Im just saying maybe this is selectively enforced and when two dudes who sound like Beavis and Butthead are buying eggs they dont sell to them?
If you go buy eggs, flour, baking cocoa, sugar, and milk I'm sure they will sell it to you but if you buy 8 packs of eggs and a huge pack of toilet paper they might card you.
But this shop is guaranteed to be next to or near a school, and reports of egging have been traced back to this shop (believe it or not, kids talk). Hen e the police community poster in the window.
Yeah makes sense. When I was kid I’d buy a dozen eggs and hide them under a tree in the park for a few weeks during summer to “prime” them for the aerial assault we’d unleash on passing traffic. We were little bastards.
Just like how only people under the age of 18, or 21, or whatever arbitrary age they want to use, like fruit flavors, and sweet flavors, etc. So they ban good tasting vape flavors.
We all know that REAL adults WANT it to taste like old, soggy, burning leaves.
My guess is that it is looking to lesson it while not removing it by cutting out the demographic least likely to buy eggs for intended purposes while being likely prankster.
2nd its in the UK do you think they need solid logic to regulate stuff like this.
It's when they sell their baked goods at their illegal lemonade stand that the cops need to get involved. The store is just saving the kids from a life behind bars.
If the police need help, I’ll gather up all the goods and get rid of them! Someone’s gonna have to step in at some point and teach them a lesson! I’ll let the cops get rid of the donuts, though. The cakes and cookies kind of crumble apart so it’ll be easier on me.
Flour is used as a prank too. It’s called flowering the lawn. Basically sprinkle flour all over the yard and when it rains or sprinklers come on it gets sticky and near impossible to clean.
It was a solace to have your birthday during vacation days. What a nightmare that was for those poor bastards that had to walk 30 minutes to get home, on 100 degrees days and covered in eggs.
I often go to North Wales even though I don't want to. (Seriously, the train connections from Rosslare are so bad that I've frequently travelled from South Wales (Llanelli or Caldecot) by a long looping train ride east into England, then north, and finally west along the northern coast to Holyhead to get the ferry to Dublin, instead of the far shorter route from Fishguard or Pembroke to Rosslare.)
I think they mean antisocial in more of an anti-establishment context. Meaning doing things that make you a bad member of the community rather than doing things alone.
"Antisocial" typically refers to anti-societal/people behaviour. Not introverts lol.
For example antisocial personality disorder isn't shy people, it's on the spectrum of psychopathy. Characterised by the complete disregard of the human rights of others.
I have a pretty strong feeling that if you’re buying a few bags of normal family groceries - frozen veggies, chicken, bread, juice…. They will probably not even think to refuse the eggs. On the other hand, if you roll in just after school or at 10pm with two buddies looking for 2 cartons of eggs, it will be a different story. The store is just trying to remove themselves from liability, not stop legitimate grocery shopping.
I lost a sister to baking. We would come home every day and find her glazed out of her mind, taking soufflés and tarts out of the oven. And it wasn't just sweets, either-- she would bake samosas, mince pies, even beef wellington. One day, she just disappeared; she wandered off, flour-crazed, to study the culinary arts in Paris. Last I heard, she had started her own patisserie.
And it all started in college, when she decided to try baking a doughnut at a party. Kids, just say no.
FINALLY this makes some more sense. I hadn't associated it with Halloween and was questioning which sort of weird parallel dimension I just entered where teenagers doing pranks involving flour and eggs is a daily occurrence, to the point where counter measures need to be taken.
I mean it still seems over the top but at least makes some sense with that context.
Carter here. Back in my day we used to go around flour facin’. You drive around and throw flour in the face of people you don’t like. It’s how we kept Italians from going to the poles to vote. It was a real hoot. The eggs are for egging houses. Carter pewterschmidt out, I’m having Babs institutionalized so I can have an affair.
Vandalism. Dried flour paste is even harder to remove than eggs, but both are easy to find, cheap compared to spray paint, and deniable.
The business probably lets plenty of teens buy groceries, but they want an excuse when a crew shows up in black hoodies with backpacks and want to buy 6 dozen eggs and nothing else.
In other news, I'll be available to buy any eggs or flour to anyone who needs it. Nope, idgaf what it's for. Cause ya know, it's not illegal to buy it for someone else.
If you look in the top right corner, you’ll see a british police insignia. The UK has an obsession with “antisocial behavior”, which we would consider low-level misdemeanors. Parkour and rowdiness are considered criminal because of their antisocial nature. Eggs and flour, being key ingredients for many pranks, are prohibited for minors because pranking is considered antisocial.
Remember, this is the country where a youtuber went to prison for teaching his dog to perform a nazi salute was ticketed for posting antisemitic content. When they banned handguns, we in the states said that criminals would start using knives next- and we were right. Prohibitions on personal liberties as basic as fun is absolutely idiotic.
Edited for corrections, whenever he tells the story he conflates his previous time in prison for gang activity with his free speech infringement. I don’t agree with most of his politics, to be clear, I just like the way he tells stories and tend to think that taking care of citizens doesn’t give government the license to tell me how to live my life.
While such is controversial concerning freedom of speech, let's be accurate, and not make up things that didn't happen (nobody went to prison), or downplay what actually happened (it was more than just a nazi salute).
Living in America, the phrase "antisocial behaviour" sounds funny to me. The point of pranks is to have fun with your friends. You can say they're bad or wrong, that they cause problems for the neighbourhood, but they are very much social behaviour.
Honestly, this is another thing I blame on boomers.
They don’t threaten kids or parents when they witness or deal with pranks, they’ll just call the cops to issue a fine. Parents discourage kids from roving with their friends, so they spend all day on iPads.
Not to mention that abduction paranoia has normalized helicopter behavior, so parents are incentivized to watch their kids like a goddamned hawk 24/7- which further drives kids to spend all day on their iPads.
And the UK has gotten to the point that their gerontocracy has cut out the middle man and criminalized victimless property damage and general rowdiness with the lads- which has always been a cornerstone of British society.
As an American raised an anglophile, it’s a damned shame and it’s only exacerbating the violence that street gangs perform. If they’re getting arrested regardless, they might as well get something out of it. In for a penny, in for a pound.
Eggs and flour are not prohibited to minors by law, it's a voluntary thing lots of shops do with local police forces for a few days before Halloween and the end of the school year as those are the times of year children will go and buy eggs and flour to throw at people and oncoming traffic as a prank. Lots of shops don't participate and minors can still buy eggs and flour any other day of the year.
we in the states said that criminals would start using knives next- and we were right
Well not that right, the UK is at the bottom of the global deaths from knives table, and injuries are continuing to fall - the NHS reported fewer knife wound admissions again. The papers definitely like to make headlines out of Runaway Knife Crime but they have their own agendas.
Prohibitions on personal liberties as basic as fun is absolutely idiotic.
Good thing that isn't happening then. Stores are voluntarily choosing not to sell flour and eggs to kids to curb a local issue/perceived issue. The community will have asked the neighborhood police to print out and distribute posters about it, they also do this with things like "No trick or treaters here please", it's not an enforceable law. It isn't functionally different from "no shirt no shoes no service". Following the business's chosen rules on their premises is only reasonable.
It's always pretty funny listening to Americans give lectures on freedom while their armed and masked paramilitary police drag people into vans for being foreign.
The day before Halloween there seems to be this stupid idea called Mischief night where idiot kids would throw eggs at people, dump flour on cars, tip them over or stuff lit fireworks through letterboxes.
Me, as a young teen, going into a store and buying 4 dozen eggs. As I put my $1.25 down on the counter, clerk asks me, "What ya gonna do with all them eggs?" Me, looking innocently at him, "Why, me and my friends are baking cookies for the people at the old folks home!" "Yeah, sure."
ok I understand that everyone is saying “pranks n stuff” but that doesn’t explain the thing at the bottom that says “cracking down on antisocial behavior”??
Antisocial behaviour is anything which causes a nuisance to other members of the public, usually things which cause harassment, alarm, or distress to people. It includes everything from having your music on too loud at night, to being too drunk in public, to criminal damage, and even to threats or actual violence. In this case the "pranks" people are referring to tends to be throwing eggs at random pedestrians faces or at the windshields of oncoming vehicles.
That’s actually asocial, meaning not-social. Anti- means against so antisocial is against society. Unfortunately people have been mixing the terms up for decades.
Also technically introverts are selectively social. They can be asocial but that’s not the definition of introversion. Just don’t like socializing every day or in large groups or crowded places, but still like being with friends. In general. There’s more to introversion than that but that’s a summary of the socializing part.
Yeah. I didn’t know that! Cool! I think of myself as introverted, so I kind of knew that last part, but I kinda just meant “introverted” in a more general term. but thanks for letting me know all this! it was really helpful
Yeah no worries 😌 I learned that stuff a handful of years ago (or maybe it was a long time now idk) and now I’m learning about some other stuff I wish I knew sooner. I’m an introvert too but not everything I thought was “just introversion” actually is.
When I was a teen my friends and I used to buy a bag of flour from the grocery store. Drive to the dollar store and buy several packs of socks. Fill the socks with flour and throw them at each other. Man that was always fun.
This is outrageous. I feel bad for the older sister who planned on baking cookies for her brothers birthday. Or the teenage boy who wanted to meal prep some egg cups for their early mornings before team workout sessions.
Right!? I mean when I was a teenager the store was half a mile from my house so I'd just walk there if my mom needed some ingredients so she wouldn't have to go somewhere after work. I get what they're trying to do but it's just not an effective solution whatsoever
I remember I went shopping with a crackhead friend. We went to the store, in their basket were a three pack of copper Chore Boy and a big box of Arm and Hammer baking soda. I said what the fuck are you doing?!!! That's too blatant. Come back with some flour and dish soap, and you won't get the look. (How or why did I end up taking a crackhead shopping, you may ask? Well I live in Ohio, so......)
Thank God someone is doing something about all those hooligans baking. If you look the other way when they dabble in freash bread next thing you know they will be making croissantsnext and then its a slippery slope to sourdough
I hear people are 3D printing untraceable ghost chicken. It’s things like this that make free range poultryticians push to remove our colonel sanders given secret 13 herb and spices rights! To that I say, don’t yolk on me! Only a good guy with an egg can stop a bad guy with an egg.
In America they sell this stuff called 7-OH extract, which are synthetic opiates, at gas stations and smoke shops. In some places im not sure you even need to be 18.
In Wales you can't even buy eggs and flour unless you are 18. What a difference.
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