# What should Danes print on the eggs they are being asked to export to the USA? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [March 15, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619 "2025-03-15T17:29:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/1 "2025-03-15T17:29:40Z")
**[Reuters reports](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/how-many-eggs-can-you-send-us-asks-countries-help-lower-soaring-prices-2025-03-14/)**: > The United States has reached out to Denmark and other European nations asking if they can export eggs as Americans face surging egg prices, the Nordic country’s egg association said on Friday. I must assume those eggs would be part of a tariff-free contingent, and considering how desperate the tanTrump administration (I use this term loosely, bear with me) is on getting them, I guess the Danes would get away with some cheeky printing on the eggs. Eggs are small, the printing cannot be too high resolution or detailed, more than one colour seems impractical. What would _you_ print on the eggs? I would print something resembling his comb-over on the pointy end and “trumpty dumpty” across the belly. Would customs let that into the USA? ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/2 "2025-03-15T18:05:25Z")
How about “DENMARKAID: From The Danish People”? ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/3 "2025-03-15T18:09:45Z")
Leave Canada alone! No enemy like a betrayed friend! ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/4 "2025-03-15T18:13:50Z")
Didn’t they breed pigs that matched the Dannebrog flag’s colors during the Nazi occupation? And what more could we ask of them? They already supply us with appetite killing Ozempic, which is good now that we can’t feed ourselves. 100 years ago they took in thousands of starving Vienna babies. Time to break out those cradles again ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/5 "2025-03-15T18:16:34Z")
I can’t think of anything funny or relevant to print on eggs, but this is an interesting situation, notably because in the EU, it’s illegal to wash eggs; in the USA, it’s mandatory to wash them. I’m assuming the exporting countries would not be washing them to order (why would they have the equipment to do that?). They’ll have to use waterprooof ink, ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/6 "2025-03-15T18:21:18Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > I can’t think of anything funny or relevant to print on eggs, but this is an interesting situation, notably because in the EU, it’s illegal to wash eggs; in the USA, it’s mandatory to wash them. I’m assuming the exporting countries would not be washing them to order (why would they have the equipment to do that?). They’ll have to use waterproof ink. They could default to the dirty automobile standby and write _“Wash Me”_ on the eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/7 "2025-03-15T18:21:39Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > notably because in the EU, it’s illegal to wash eggs; in the USA, it’s mandatory to wash them Indeed, this was also my thought. (It’s why we leave eggs out at room temp. Unwashed, they’re sealed and airtight. Washed, the shell becomes porous, which is why eggs have to be refrigerated in the US.) Whatever gets printed on the egg will need to survive the washing process that will be applied by US authorities on import. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/8 "2025-03-15T18:21:59Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Didn’t they breed pigs that matched the Dannebrog flag’s colors during the Nazi occupation? Oh, yes, the Danish protest pig! That is a good story, but it has nothing to do with the Nazi occupation, it predates the Nazis by almost a century: > **[The Fascinating Story of the Danish Protest Pigs](https://www.dailyscandinavian.com/the-fascinating-story-of-the-danish-protest-pigs/)** > > The Fascinating Story of the Danish Protest Pigs And they do look cute! ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/9 "2025-03-15T18:23:55Z")
Or maybe just, along that same theme, a simple line drawing of a cock and balls ---
**Author:** ![Ellecram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellecram/32/18948_2.png) [@Ellecram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellecram)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/10 "2025-03-15T18:25:40Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > Or maybe just, along that same theme, a simple line drawing of a cock and balls. To modernize a bit they could do a QR code with cock and balls embedded. ---
**Author:** ![DavidNRockies](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidnrockies/32/6279_2.png) [@DavidNRockies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DavidNRockies)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/11 "2025-03-15T18:34:48Z")
> Vi elsker det amerikanske folk. Det er din præsident, vi ikke kan fordrage. [small font] We love the American people. It’s your President we can’t stand. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/12 "2025-03-15T18:34:53Z")
Brilliant… but most Americans aren’t smart enough to get that point. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/13 "2025-03-15T18:36:44Z")
Perhaps a portrait of King Christian X. [Bayfilk 3 — Concert Center Stage (1986)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V30aCVSk5pk&ab_channel=VintageFilkPreservation) (44:50 into the recording). ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/14 "2025-03-15T18:43:21Z")
**beat it** ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/15 "2025-03-15T18:54:06Z")
A QR code with a link to this video: > **[The Trumby \[SFM\] - Lyle McDouchebag](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buiv3_uVHSA%2F)** > > What will happen if Donald Trump is elected president (according to liberals)►Subscribe to Lyle McDouchebag for more videos: http://bit.ly/SubscribeLyle►Sour... ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/16 "2025-03-15T18:59:15Z")
This egg kills fascists. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/17 "2025-03-15T19:01:04Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > Leave Canada alone! Better: No, you can’t have Greenland. ---
**Author:** ![Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@Stranger\_On\_A\_Train](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stranger_On_A_Train)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-should-danes-print-on-the-eggs-they-are-being-asked-to-export-to-the-usa/1015619/18 "2025-03-15T19:13:08Z")
> [@Pardel-Lux](#): > > What would _you_ print on the eggs? _Sut på dette, fascister!_ Stranger ---
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“Best eaten by xx/xx - Best used for pelting a Cybertruck after xx/xx” ---
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