{"id":61767,"date":"2024-02-26T16:06:10","date_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=61767"},"modified":"2024-02-26T16:06:10","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T21:06:10","slug":"i-bought-some-eggs-heres-what-i-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=61767","title":{"rendered":"I bought some eggs. Here’s what I learned"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the past few years, I’ve paid only sporadic attention to the prices of stuff I regularly buy. Yes, when COVID caused prices to soar, I switched from Quaker Oats to no-name oat bran found in a bin at Fairway, and departed from cans of V-8 by moving on to cans of tomato juice.<\/p>\n

But I never noticed the price of eggs because…eggs are eggs and are a permanent part of my life. I love eggs.<\/a> (Do I have to offer a declaration here that the eggs I’m referring to are hen eggs, not human ones? OK, that was my declaration.)<\/p>\n

But yesterday I did notice the price of eggs.<\/p>\n

For years, I’ve been reading agony columns on Twitter (TAFKAT) about the prices of gasoline, ground beef, eggs. (All Joe Biden’s fault.*) At some point I saw news items about some sort of corrupt finagling among big egg producers (none of whom was named Joe Biden*) who had collaborated in price-fixing,<\/a> and a chicken virus knocking off egg-laying hens —<\/a> factual info that emerged to explain why egg prices were so high, but as I said, I hadn’t really noticed because I really didn’t want to notice and didn’t need to notice.<\/p>\n

A carton of a dozen eggs cost less than a Porsche and I was going to buy those eggs until I couldn’t afford to.<\/p>\n

It was only a sidelong glance yesterday at egg prices, as I reached for ones I’d bought before and liked. A wide variation: had I noticed a dozen eggs selling for over 6 bucks? Maybe. Maybe they were “organic” eggs, but I specifically buy inorganic goods of all kinds.<\/p>\n

My dozen eggs? $3.89, half the price of a loaf of challah, which is made with eggs. It’s a very large loaf, to be sure but still…<\/p>\n

Oh and a gallon of gas is now around the price of those dozen eggs.<\/p>\n

*If you need me to verify these mentions as sarcasm, you shouldn’t be hanging around me or my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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