The keyboard warriors have been having a heated dispute on Fb over the worth of eggs.
Some claimed they have been paying $4 for a dozen eggs. Others mentioned they have been paying quite a bit much less, and didn’t imagine eggs value that a lot anyplace within the nation. Naturally, the topic of politics was introduced into the dialog, blaming egg inflation on one political get together or the opposite.
However nobody was truly saying why the worth was excessive.
I assumed I knew why: a foul outbreak of the avian flu, which has resulted within the deaths of almost 19 million chickens this season. Avian flu, additionally known as chicken flu, is very contagious, and when one rooster in a coop will get it all of the others should be killed to cease its unfold to different farms.
So I assumed I’d name the great of us on the American Egg Board — they’re those who got here up with the “incredible, edible egg” slogan — to ask why egg costs have risen.
However one thing is scrambled on the American Egg Board. It seems that they’re a troublesome shell to crack.
I known as the cellphone quantity listed on their web site (incredibleegg.org) and let the cellphone ring. And ring. And ring. It was an odd ring, too, fairly in contrast to any I had ever heard earlier than. Finally, the cellphone was answered by a fuzzy voice on a machine stating her identify, like a house answering machine and never even mentioning if she have been on the American Egg Board. The random voice halfheartedly prompt that I depart a message.
I haven’t heard again in a well timed method and even, at this level, an premature one. Maybe all their greatest staff have been poached, probably by the Nationwide Bacon Council (slogan: “Bacon … It’s what’s for breakfast!”).
On a regular basis spent ready gave me loads of alternatives to peruse their web site, which is fascinating each for what it contains and for what it doesn’t.
As an example, there’s this tidbit: The American Egg Board was actually created by an act of Congress, the Egg Analysis and Promotion Order of 1976. Even so, it exists as a advertising and marketing group to learn U.S. egg farmers and isn’t funded by the federal government.
On a lighter facet — over straightforward, you may say — the positioning additionally contains egg recipes. Some are very fundamental, however useful for starting cooks, equivalent to fried eggs (flip down the warmth as quickly as you slide the eggs into the new fats) and hard-boiled eggs (put the eggs in chilly water, convey to a boil, take away from warmth and canopy for 12 minutes earlier than cooling in ice water).
However a number of the recipes are extra complicated. You possibly can learn to make a soufflé, or pasta carbonara, a Hawaiian scrambled egg pizza or complete wheat chocolate chip pancake poppers. Or should you go to the web page for school and universities, you may click on on a recipe for huevos chimichangas.
For those who click on on it, it takes you to that very same web page providing a recipe for huevos chimichangas. Which, if you click on on it, takes you to the identical web page once more. Simply as if you click on on the hyperlink for world recipes (“Discover egg recipes from different cultures and countries around the world”), it takes you to the identical web page with the identical hyperlink, advert infinitum.
Or should you click on on the hyperlink for “Made with REAL eggs” you get a discover that the web page isn’t discovered. The identical is true if, on the Egg Fanatic Neighborhood web page, you click on on the recipe for mini Mediterranean frittatas.
What’s happening on the act-of-Congress-created American Egg Board? Beats me.
However one thing there’s positively cracked.