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Who’s idiotic enough to think; let me save a few bucks, drive all the away across the border, buy eggs, then illegally import them back into the US. Since when did eggs become Cocaine? People have lost their damn minds.

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It’s the same sort of people who drive to the supermarket in the neighboring town for cheaper prices. Except it happens that the neighboring town is in another country.

And the neighboring town will sell you your medication for half the price.

Black-market food sales are not crazy. Once or twice a year you'll hear about a truck heist. A full truck of food is worth on the order of tens or even hundreds of thousands of dollars, depending on the haul, and is worth the risk even sold in bulk at a steep discount. Restaurants will be more than happy to look the other way to improve margins for a week.

I can't imagine eggs are dense enough or resistant to spoilage enough to try and smuggle through a border crossing but maybe they know something we don't.

People that regularly cross the border already? Have you not heard of all the Americans that walk over there for prescription drugs?

If you're specifically talking about the people that know eggs are illegal to import, sure.

But going across the border to shop is very common in general.

This is definitely baffling. Just stop eating eggs until the issues are solved.

More than 30 million people live in poverty in the US, and eggs are a dietary staple of children in those households.

Would you recommend they should eat (Little Debbie snack) cake, instead?

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