Old Packaging

[RedAngie]

Remember when a dozen eggs came in a 3x4 package?



Hand painted Polish Easter eggs. Pisanki.
3 broke over the decades.



Soda 12 pack cans used to be in a 3x4 carton too.

 

[Christine]

I am 58 and I can't say I remember this at all--at least not in my area.

 

[BrianL]

I do not remember eggs in containers like that, but I do remember soda. They changed soda to the "fridge packs" for easier storage.

 

[disneychrista]

Don’t remember eggs ever being anything other than 2x6. Soda I do remember. I also remember being able to buy a 6 pack of soda and “suitcases” of 24 cans.

 

[PollyannaMom]

I don't remember cartons that shape, but the eggs are really pretty!

 

[Mysterian]

Nice eggs, but that container doesn't ring a bell. Maybe a regional thing?

 

[lynxstch]

I'm in my 60's and I have never seen that kind of egg carton in my lift. Born and raised in MA..so maybe it's a regional thing wherever it came from?

 

[Sugardimples]

I remember. I'm in Pennsylvania.

 

[easyas123]

I recall those as well -
Those eggs are absolutely gorgeous -

 

[Dan Murphy]

All I recall is 6 X 2 egg cartons.

 

[AppleDumpling]

I’m another who has never seen 3x4 egg cartons. A dozen has always been 2x6, and they also sell 18-count cartons here, which are 3x6. Your Polish eggs are beautiful Angie, are they real egg shells?

 

[mamamary]

I don’t remember it either.

 

[Micca]

No memory of a such a thing. OTOH no memory of a lot of things

 

[BrianL]

An outdated packaging I can remember was pudding in cans with the pull ring:



And of course the ring would break off and you'd have to punch at it with a knife or screwdriver or whatever you ahd - very safe way to handle it.

These eventually all gave way to the plastic cups with foil lids, but even in the 80's we had the cans. I am not sure when the above ad is from but it shows exactly the type I am talking about. I think we mostly had Jell-O brand, but I couldn't find a picture.

 

[tvguy]

I'll be 65 in June, never seen this. I do remember remember the current paper cartons being designed so you could snap them in half if you only wanted to buy 6 eggs.
These days at Walmart the egg display area is half taken up with the 5 dozen boxes. They must sell a lot of those.

 

[JoanneAZ]

I also don’t remember that kind of egg carton and I’m 58, I’ve always lived in the Southwest, though. I do remember buying soda in 1 liter glass bottles that you took back to the store.

 

[RedAngie]

I remember. I'm in Pennsylvania.

Yes, I guess it musta been regional. SE Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey. I’m guessing that egg carton is from the late 60s or early 70s.

I’m another who has never seen 3x4 egg cartons. A dozen has always been 2x6, and they also sell 18-count cartons here, which are 3x6. Your Polish eggs are beautiful Angie, are they real egg shells?

Yes, real egg shells. But my mother bought them at craft fairs. She tried once or twice but it was a dismal failure.

You poke a tiny hole in the bottom of the eggshell and drain it somehow. Then there are various other steps.

There might be youtube videos about the process.

 

[RedAngie]

I remember my father buying soda in thick glass returnable bottles in heavy wooden crates.

Thick eyeglasses were called “Coke bottle glasses.”

 

[ronandannette]

...Yes, real egg shells. But my mother bought them at craft fairs. She tried once or twice but it was a dismal failure.

You poke a tiny hole in the bottom of the eggshell and drain it somehow. Then there are various other steps.

There might be youtube videos about the process.

The eggs are very carefully pierced top and bottom, the contents blown out and the shell rinsed and left to dry completely.

We learned to do the Ukrainian Easter Eggs in elementary school art class several years running. We each had to pay a dollar for a special little stylus that you used to scoop up soft beeswax and warm it over a candle flame. You dyed the egg a colour, drew a design on it with the melted wax and then over-dyed it - again and again adding colours and designs from lightest to darkest and ended with black. Then you gently heated the whole egg to melt the wax and wipe it off, revealing the final product. It was a lovely exercise and took us weeks to finish a single egg. Certainly no masterpieces - it would take a certain talent and years and years of practise to produce beautiful versions like in your picture.

 

[PollyannaMom]

How they are made: a sped up video from Syracuse.com