...I would have been the coolest little snot on the block to have such fancy egg boxes at my "store". You never played Mr/Miss Grocer as a child? I remember raiding the kitchen garbage for empty Campbell's soup cans, mayo jars, and cereal boxes to beef up my shelves. Weeds and mud pies, if I remember correctly, made up the produce and bakery section.
This entry is in partial response to RONW's egg-citing post because the thought of his precious 18 going splat! in Waikiki just made me cackle too disturbingly hard. Buying eggs in Hawaii is an agonizing affair. They are always so expensive (like milk), that all you really look for are weekly specials and when that happens, watch out! One person in my family hoards the darn things *cough* like his life depended on it. Eggs are so much a part of the local diet (as breakfast, in custard pies, for portuguese sweet bread, etc.) that if the hens decided to go on strike...well, I hope the cops won't be out on furlough.
The image's flickr page has all the pertinent notes to explain what is what, but I should admit that I don't usually buy so many different types all at one go. It just so happened that I needed yolks that were more yellow, even if the shells were all white, and that I wanted to see if the organic/not genetically modified ones tasted any better, regardless of the fact for having brown shells. Note that the sizes aren't anywhere near the economically convenient 18-count, or full flat 30 count that I'm familiar with in the islands. Yes we have 4 and 2-packs (and again, if we had these when I was a kid...).
Last but not least, some of you may remember this particular object?
