America, "have fun" paying more for your food

1950:

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A dozen eggs cost $5.14 in 2025 dollars.

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Also 1950. $5.93 a dozen for eggs in this add (2025 dollars).
 
It is not that egg prices are soaring after Donnie said it was easy to fix and would quickly take care of it,. It is that a new price level is established. A few years ago burgers were cheap. Who would have expected 15 bucks would become the base price? But once it gets up, if conditions make it so an owner can drop the price, they don't, or at least not where they used to be. Eggs are the same. People are inured to price pain in eggs. When they drop, they will not go back down all the way. But we will feel lucky that we are not paying 12 bucks a doz.
 
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