When I grabbed this egg carton from the fridge, something felt… off. The “BEST BY APR 5” date looked normal at first glance, but when I set the carton down again, the print moved. I thought I was imagining it—until I looked closer. The date wasn’t smudged or duplicated… it was printed on two different layers of the carton.
That meant one thing:
Someone had re-sealed the carton and reprinted the date.
My stomach dropped. Stores sometimes repackage eggs when a carton is damaged, but counterfeit date stamps are a different story. If the wrong batch gets mixed in—especially expired ones—you could be eating eggs far past their safe window. Now I always check for shifted ink or multiple stamp impressions… because once you see it, you can’t unsee it.
