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Curious.
Usually, say in an upscale restaurant or the like, when there’s no price shown you know they’re saying, This is for those who *sniff* can afford it. All others kindly step aside.
There was one sign: Limit 1, with an explanation for those living news-free that there’s a national shortage. (California’s been particularly hard hit.)
No price.
Well, when you need them you need them, as I put the egg carton in my cart. I couldn’t remember when I’d even seen them there this year.
After we got home I found the receipt because I really wanted to know. The surprise was not what I’d thought it was going to be.
$4.99? I haven’t seen that price in months! I told Richard. The cheap ones at Safeway were $8.99!
I guess that’s why Trader Joe’s didn’t post it: they didn’t want their cashiers to be put on the spot having to deal with people trying to hoard in spite of the posted limit.
Think we’ll ever go back to $2.79?
Although, when you put together the chicken coop, chicken food, egg retrieval, egg boxing, egg transporting, egg stocking, (egg breaking), egg checking-out-ing, any of those prices for something so useful in so many ways while offering protein to boot really is a bargain.
One birthday cake, coming up.
If only someone made a half-angel food cake pan.
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It won’t be the same shape, but a 9×5 load pan is in fact half of an angel cake recipe. They sell them that way in stores…I’m sure you’ve seen them. So, make half! if you should be using a mix (presume you’re not, but still), weigh out half, save the other half for next time, and it works great.
(We miss angel food cakes since the celiac diagnosis.)
Comment by Marian 04.16.25 @ 9:50 pmI’ll eat the other half … as long as it comes with chocolate drip frosting! (Also, regular flour … I’m allergic to almonds.)
I haven’t had angel food cake in years! Duncan Hines makes a good mix. It’s the only cake my mother ever made from a mix!
Comment by Anne 04.16.25 @ 11:06 pmHappy birthday! My uncle’s signature dessert was angle good cake. Mom really thought he used a scratch recipe for years, until her sister admitted to boxed mix.
Comment by DebbieR 04.17.25 @ 8:19 amIsn’t that a clever way for them to avoid arguments! I never would have expected that.
Comment by ccr in MA 04.17.25 @ 1:47 pmYou haven’t been coming up on my feed and it just dawned on me so I’m looking at the old stuff forgive me. It’s Passover so we’re going through eggs like rGrant through Richmond. (That’s my grandmother talking). Best friend has chickens. She came over with a bag hidden under her passenger seat in the car. She handed me the secret bag grinning, and she pick me up at the repair shop. She said here happy Passover. At home I found 18 eggs!
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