How much do you pay for eggs? Probably rather less than these ones sell for. But there again, these are probably the best I've had in a very long time.
Mind you they ought to be at ¥945 for a carton of six. That's ¥157 each, which at current exchange rates comes to £1.27p (or just over US$2) apiece. I actually picked them up at a discounted rate, of merely ¥110 / £0.90 / $1.50 each.
I forgot to mention: they're SS size. But oh so nicely packaged, with cute little individual labels, and fine curly wood shavings to cushion them from harm during transit...
They're a specialty of Kochi Prefecture (formerly known as Tosa), in Shikoku. They're fertile eggs and organically raised, fed with vegetables grown without artificial farm chemicals and fertilized with the very same chickens' droppings.
There may not be much to them, but they have the prettiest yolks...
For for those who read Japanese, here's the Tosa-jiro web site...
And, here's the manifesto: "My motto is 'Eggs that are superior, healthy, and produced with utmost attention, eggs for eating raw over hot rice to warm your heart'"...