The egg-spensive scramble and what it says about our interconnected world

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The global scramble for eggs is getting egg-spensive.

Malaysia was suffering an acute shortage of eggs until it recently imported trays and trays of them from India.

The US is faced with from soaring egg prices, so much so the meme magicians have been whipping themselves into a frenzy to roll out the story. Click here to take a look.

The point is that baked, boiled, fried, poached, coddled or raw, the egg is practically unaffordable nowadays. So much so that the market no longer allows for the simple pleasure of throwing an egg at someone. (Britain’s King Charles, who’s been on the receiving end of egg volleys in the past few months, may be relieved that the yolk is now on the angry egg-thrower.)

In a nutshell, it’s a sign of how interconnected the world is, for all that globalisation is said to be in retreat.

There are a couple of reasons egg prices are behaving like a well-made souffle. (Incidentally, souffle comes from the French word souffler, which means “…