Eggs hatch more bad news: They're expensive, hard to find — and their shells are going to start chipping more, too.
Egg prices are going up and grocery store shelves are increasingly bare. You already knew that. Did you know we're in for chippier eggshells? Yep.
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- We all know eggs are expensive — probably forever. And they're missing from grocery shelves, too.
- As if that weren't enough, there's other egg-related bad news: Their shells chip more often.
- When will this nightmare end? (I asked an eggspert: Probably never!)
Sorry to stress you out, but the egg situation is getting worse and worse.
According to eggsperts — no, I will not apologize for that — not only are there super-high prices and empty shelves: But we're also looking at a return to eggs with weak and unusually chippy shells.
You already know egg prices went up. They're on everyone's mind — at least egg-eating minds. A dozen eggs cost an average of $4.15 in December, according to federal statistics — up from $2.51 the previous December.
And in a true sign of the eggpocalypse: Waffle House is now adding a 50-cent surcharge for eggs — for each egg, that is!
On TikTok, Magda S. has been tracking egg prices in a spreadsheet that's online and open to the public. She didn't want to reveal her last name, but her full identity is known to BI.
Magda has gone viral for the stunt and said she plans to continue to update her spreadsheet for the next four years — to mark whether egg prices decline during Donald Trump's presidency.
"Everyone wants to talk about eggs," she told me.
@magdacious Egg prices r up
