bad stuff pretty traumatic
Yeah. The partner coming home/waking up to the carnage was unpleasant for everyone.
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Happened to my son on a farm in Turkey. 
Grocery Outlet in Alameda sells blue heirloom eggs, not expensive, I think $3.80 dozen. The yolks are very orange.
I get orange, blue, green, gray, and very occasionally a white one. They are all delicious 
I get the blue eggs in cartons from a local farm. A small local family grocery carries them. I love them! (They aren’t all blue).
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The yolks from these eggs are very orange, too.
We sometimes see those eggs at the East Hayward GO, but they pack them in plastic and my wife has now forbidden me from buying eggs in plastic cartons.
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Are we talking forbidden styrofoam plastic or clear (recycle-eligible) plastic cartons? Paper cartons still do the best job of cushioning the eggs, in my opinion. And while they don’t qualify for paper recycling in trash (since already made from re/recycled paper), there are a ton of craft/garden reuse possibilities.
The latter. As far as I can tell, they’re not recyclable in my area.
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The brand of pastured chicken eggs my grocer sells have like a double plastic carton. An exterior clear plastic carton in the usual expanded rectangle shape, and an interior plastic carton more snugly form-fitting over the eggs top and bottom. Plus additional printed lightweight paperboard identifying the product, source, etc.
Gah. And even if that stuff is officially recyclable, does it really get recycled once my bin is picked up? Who knows…
Just by happenstance I saw a small farm near here selling eggs; chickens run free (well, they’re fenced) with his dogs overseeing security. He uses those re-rerecycled paper cartons MTT mentions.
Plus, now I take the empties back to him for re-use. I put a small Sharpie dot on the underside in an unobtrusive place, and in some instances I’ve gotten the same carton more than once.
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Going up, again. Today’s price at the upscale grocery is 4.99 dozen. Glad I got TWO dozen for 5.69 Sunday at Costco (in the clear plastic carton).
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NJ dozen large eggs are currently $5.00-$3.35
Brown, cage-free, etc dozen run $4.49-up
ShopRite brand large brown cage-free $3.49/dozen
ShopRite brand large white regular $4.69/dozen
ShopRite brand large white cage-free $4.99/dozen
This is in Aberdeen, NJ.
Once again, brown cage-free eggs are much cheaper than white non-cage-free. Does this make any sense?
Shop Rite eggs are some of the more expensive eggs in our area of NJ. Even on sale.
My supplier charges $5 a dozen for premium, gorgeous deep orange yolked eggs and I know her ‘girls’! I’ve been buying from her for at least a dozen years.
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I. Up eggs from a local farm. Not only are the yolks gorgeous, so are the egg shells brown, white, several shades of brown, and always a blue one. It’s an indulgence, but I only use a dozen every few weeks.
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I love the variety of colored shells! It’s kinda like choosing Easter eggs for breakfast.
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My oldest daughter buys eggs at Aldi. Last week she texted me a “WTH?” photo showing the price sign at $3.77.
I thought maybe just an employee mistake, but a quick internet search showed people complaining. She said the more usual price is $2.50-2.70. Monday I was in a different, more expensive grocery chain, and their XL were $5.
Today I popped into Aldi myself for some lamb and the eggs were $1.79. I’m going to check the other chain later today when I head home and see if their price is rollercoastering too.
