In article >, Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
>On Sat 27 Aug 2005 07:56:03a, Phred wrote in rec.food.cooking:
>
>> In article >, "Dee Randall"
>> > wrote:
>>>"-L." > wrote in message
egroups.com...
>>>>
>>>> Nancy Young wrote:
>>>>> I only have 2 in the refrigerator. Every week, they have
>>>>> some kind of egg 'sale' , usually a dozen for 88 cents.
>>>>> I have a hankering for quiche, so I checked the circular.
>>>>
>>>> Albertsens have them $1/dz here and I was contemplating the same thing
>>>> although I usually buy organic. I odn't even really like eggs all
>>>> that much, but they are a good source of protein.
>>>
>>>I usually buy organic eggs, too. But when my DH makes a fritatta, even
>>>with all the additional thangs he put in it, I can taste the difference.
>>> Does the word, yuk come from the word, yolk?
>>
>> Here we now have "free range", "barn", and "vegetarian" FFS! The
>> prices for these range high to low respectively. If prefixed by
>> "organic" they are even more expensive (but, of course, you can't but
>> "organic vegetarian" eggs because "vegetarian" is just a nonsense name
>> for cage eggs! .
>>
>> I buy the cheapest they have in half-dozen lots (usually
>> "vegetarian"). There's no difference in nutritional value. There may
>> be a difference in the mind of some consumers; but as that isn't an
>> issue for me, I don't see the point of paying extra.
>
>Funny what's in the mind of some consumers... I have a friend who won't
>eat brown eggs because "they don't taste anything at all like other eggs."

They're terrible if you open the wrong end too. ;-)


Cheers, Phred.

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