An egg is part of Easter. Emma Roefs (16) from Middelbeers knows this all too well. She has been sorting chicken eggs in Haghorst for three years. And they are popular on the Christian holiday, she knows.
“At Easter I always have to make sure that the egg dispenser is completely full,” says 16-year-old Emma Roefs at the Bertens Poultry poultry company in Haghorst. There is a lot of coming and going at the ‘pulling wall’ on the Ontginngingsweg.
“It now empties much faster than normal,” Emma notices, as she quickly places a new box in the machine. In the days before Easter, an average of a thousand eggs are pulled from the vending machine.
To prevent customers from buying broken or dirty eggs, Emma works behind the conveyor belt from seven in the morning to half past one in the afternoon. Then she turns over 90,000 eggs to see if there is any chicken poop on them. “I’ll fish that one out.”
The rejected eggs disappear into a separate container. These eggs are not thrown away, but sold to companies. They make mayonnaise and cakes from it, among other things. “Anything that contains eggs, but you can’t easily tell that it contains eggs,” Emma explains.
Despite seeing more than 90,000 eggs every day, Emma still hasn’t had enough. She even prefers them to chocolate eggs, which are often eaten at Easter.
“I prefer savory,” says Emma. “Delicious, an egg from time to time. Fried, with cheese!”
