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Oh pshaw, on Tue 11 Dec 2007 08:28:01p, Miche meant to say...

> In article 4>,
> Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
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>> Oh pshaw, on Tue 11 Dec 2007 07:27:24p, Miche meant to say...
>>
>> > In article
>> > >,
>> > pamjd > wrote:
>> >
>> >> Went to the store to get bread and milk and man did I get some

sticker
>> >> shock when I went by the egg section of the dairy aisle. All of a
>> >> suddeen 18 eggs are $3.15. Wow, a dozen are now over $2, the same
>> >> eggs that a couple months ago were 99 cents. I am in Wisconsin. How
>> >> are egg prices where you are?
>> >
>> > $6/doz for free-range eggs. I have no idea what the prices are for
>> > battery-farm eggs.

>
>> Where in the hell are they free-ranging?

>
> New Zealand.
>
>> That's highway robbery.

>
> Not for this country. Eggs here are expensive by US standards.
>
> Miche
>


Wow, that's still highway robbery. Eggs are probably one our cheapest
nutritious foods here. I'm in Arizona. If I were to buy ordinary
supermarket eggs, they go for 89¢-99¢/dozen when on sale, and they're
almost alwys on sale.

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