"SOON after landing in England, I learned a new term," said a visitor in a BBC talk recently. "It was ‘shell egg.’ To-day if you go into a shop and ask simply: ‘are there any eggs this week?’ they won’t know whether you mean eggs as the hen lays them or a box of powder. Both varieties, alas, are now little more than memories. But ‘shell egg’ has come to be a part of the national vocabulary which everyone must know."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 18
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81Untitled New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 382, 18 October 1946, Page 18
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