Eggs

The price of eggs has gone through the roof due to inflation and other causes. Everyone paying attention knows this. One of my "shower thoughts" recently wondered about something related but maybe different.

Used to be you'd buy a carton of eggs. Some kind of cardboard container everyone who shops was familiar with. And if you're like me when buying eggs you'd open up the carton container and check to see if there were any broken eggs. If there were - back on the shelf that carton went.

Today there seems to be fewer eggs at the super market and those that are there now usually come in this double sealed plastic container. You can visually inspect the eggs but opening up the container to check becomes much more of a production then it used to be. 

Did the increase in prices cause the change to a more protective but more expensive packaging? If there's less "breakage" then this would make sense. But where's the outrage from the folks who wanted to outlaw plastic straws on all this new plastic being introduced to the average home? And whatever happened to those cartons of eggs that had a broken egg that I - and others - would just place back on the shelf? Did they just sit there until someone who didn't check bought them? Did the supermarket take the unbroken eggs and repackage them in different cartons? Or was the whole thing chucked out in the trash? 

These are the types of things I think about in the shower.