Alabama NewsCenter — Eggs Are Incredible, Just Like The Old Jingle Said

By Lenore Vickrey
Alabama Living

Most everyone of a certain age can remember the long-running 1970s TV commercial jingle, “The incredible, edible egg.” That message still applies. In fact, when the COVID-19 pandemic led to stay-at-home orders nationwide, guess what started flying off grocery store shelves, along with toilet paper?

“There was over a 70 percent spike in retail sales of eggs in a two-week period in March 2020,” says Marc Driesen, director of integrated communications for the American Egg Board. Why? “A lot had to do with the ease and versatility of eggs, and they’re so nutritionally valuable. You can hard boil them, put them on a salad, put it on a stick for a snack for kids. The average person has a limited recipe inventory, so now when you’re making breakfast, lunch and dinner six to seven days a week,” he says, the variety of ways to cook an egg came in handy.

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