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I know exactly what you're talking about! I'm not sure how I would have coped with all of this without the internet and my group of friends here.

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A little cock-sure, aren't you?

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If you don't succeed, don't get all broody on us, OK?

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My neighbor was remodeling his house. He put a free range on the curb.

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Biden's uniting of the parties on Social Security and Medicare went over easy.

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I've been told that after I'm done here, I will no longer be allowed to be cage-free.

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Because the regular white eggs are not available people are buying the organic, free range brown eggs as well though. We only buy those but we can't get our hands on them because people are just buying whatever eggs they can find. I really don't want to start keeping chickens to get eggs they smell (the chickens) and are mean. The farm around the corner sometimes has eggs and honey but it's winter so the hens aren't producing like they do in the summer.

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They might be Whole Foods shoppers the prices at Whole Foods are usually higher than everywhere else.

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I saw him do a one-man show as Oscar Wilde once. It was fabulous. He may have been totally straight, but he always had that flair for that sly dramatic gesture that so many gay performers used.

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I'm not playing this shell game.

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I love lentils. I buy the Tabatchnick frozen soups in Organic Tuscany Lentil, Split Pea and Black Bean. They are all delicious. I got a bunch on sale a few weeks ago at $2.00 for the regular and 2 for 5 for the organic/low sodium and I add a little squash to my soup and that's a fantastic lunch. I can make my own but at $2.00 I don't mind not having to go through all the soup making process for different types of soup when I want a soup in the week to take to work.

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Wha? Are you chitin me?

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My dad got some eggs from a friend that keeps chickens and the yolks were such a beautiful orange.

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Egg laying hens tend to be tougher and require a little more work to cook than chickens raised for meat consumption. My mom had a friend that would eat her birds when they were out of their laying years and she brought one for my mom and my mom put it in the pressure cooker to cook.

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Or tofu scramble. I actually had tofu scramble for breakfast and while you can't mistake it for eggs it was delicious anyway.

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"farms that produce specialty eggs are usually smaller than their mainstream counterparts so were spared the worst effects from the bird flu outbreak" I toured three egg farms. Each had 7 to 8 MILLION caged birds. When the avian flu hits hard 7 to 8M birds go to landfill. On average 80% of the birds drop an egg each day. Chickens either make white or brown eggs; from my youth I thought they were dyed white. The giant caged egg farms also had giant barns where "free range" eggs were harvested. Assume pretty shitty life lived in a cage, but somebody has to feed 8 BILLION people.

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