Upon my recent return from Tokyo I decided to find some good tasting eggs, the kind I enjoy in Tokyo. I spent three months in San Francisco tasting more than a dozen different premium eggs.
The supermarket eggs in Japan and Israel are 9-10 on a 1-10 scale. The American supermarket egg is a 1.
I tried eggs from organic chickens, Omega 3 chickens, free range chickens with high colonics and aroma therapy nests. I never found an egg in America than gets a rating higher than a 2 on a 1-10 scale.
I ended up finding New Zealand eggs at a Japanese grocery in San Francisco that are 10s. The eggs cost me $1 each but they are worth it. I also love the distance: 7,000 miles.
As you can guess I think the locavore food nuts are racist, Luddite, arrogant people who hate commerce, hate poor people and hate everyone who doesn’t live in California, Israel or Japan. (Wait... probably half of them hate Israel and know nothing of the fresh food diet there.)
Cute note from the S.F. to New Zealand data: yelling to a friend between the two places, (Luddites will probably try this) the sound would travel for 9 hours each way. Listen closely, then wait 18 hours for the reply.