Eggscuse me, just to throw in that being called a soft-boiled egg (ein Weichei) is a funny German way of calling someone a wimp. I will add that I find it remarcable how iconically important eggs seem to be in the USA, I am no eggspert but I guess it has something to do with your breakfast habits. The eggivalent product in Germany would be butter: when the price of butter rises it seems like the end of the world is near.
Sorry, I was listening to The White Albumen.
I’d rephrase that slightly to, “if it increases profit and we are unlikely to pay more in fines and penalties than that profit, then it is the right thing to do.”
Which is why I think there should be some sort of law that the fines always have to be a multiple of the revenue generated by the illegal activity. I’m aware of how difficult that will be on a technical level, but egg pun.
…but, well, can’t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs?
What kind of Humpty Dumpty bullshit is this now?
And these puns are getting eggcruciating.
It’s sad all the profits fineggled from unsuspecting consumers.
What we have here is a failure to communegg-cate. Some men you just c’aint reach.
Damn foo yungsters never know what the real world is like.
Missed opportunity to use “unsuspeggting.” Up your game, my friend. Egg on your face, definitely.
Except that the article is about their getting caught and punished because we passed laws against price fixing. We don’t have robber baron capitalism because we decided not to tolerate it.
Ova the love of Og, can we stop with the egg puns?
You just can’t beat an egg pun.
Clearly the price fixing story was simply the egg MacGuffin for this thread
Not so much price-fixing as much as preventing the poaching of customers.
TBH, I did not actually get around to reading the OP article.
But, the system clearly did get rigged because the price of eggs did, in fact, skyrocket for a good while. It may be true that since we do have laws against price fixing, people don’t get away with it forever, but they do seem to often get away with it in the short term, at least.
So, despite the hard-boiled approach that you’re taking with me, omelette more correct than you give me credit for.
Shirredly you jest.
He’s not jesting. And stop calling him Shirredly.
Very tasty egg pun.
Oh, come on! Keep your sunny side up!
Take into account that the companies were taken to task years ago, like the song (song is older, but I don’t need to eggsplain! 
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