They've been doing this for years in the UK with *everything*, but it is especially egregious with eggs, given that "a dozen eggs" is adjacent to a collocation/irreversible binomial sort of thing. Mind you, we have eight very spoiled young chickens and we haven't had an egg from them in a month...!
I thought it irreversible/immutable too, like a baker’s dozen.
Have a dozen hens currently on strike for winter and not earning their keep which is why the bought carton and noticing the change.
*I was going to call it a Roman dozen but then I did some Wikipedia research on the origins of the decimal system and here we are, stuck with a bad joke made even worse for it’s historical accuracy
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Have a dozen hens currently on strike for winter and not earning their keep which is why the bought carton and noticing the change.
Like the disappearance of 1 lb packages!!