here you go,
"Egg-town is a pejorative term that refers to the days of bartering, during the Great Depression. A traveling salesman would have to barter his candy or tobacco or shoelaces for different commodities. A poor exchange would be for eggs, a relatively common item that is also highly perishable. Nobody wants to trade for eggs from a traveling salesman because they have their own, so the salesman who accepted an egg in exchange was forced to accept a bad deal. Salesmen would use the term like "If I were you I would stay away from Bogart. That's an egg-town." Of course, the lack of trust among salesman was also high, and it was likely that one salesman would lie to another about the quality of a town's customers to keep them for himself. Invariably, the second salesman ventures into to Bogart only to find it is truly an egg-town. He is either persuaded to not visit a town that has good customers or is tricked into visiting a town that can only offer eggs. The term "egg-town" represents a deal with undesirable outcomes in either case. [source needed]
References in this episode include:
* The inability of Locke to makes any progress with the interrogation of Ben or Miles.
* The "bad deal" the Oceanic 6 made, thinking that leaving the Island was more important than the consequences of leaving.
* The deal that Miles ended up with. He came with high hopes of getting 3.2 million dollars and ended up just with a grenade in his mouth.
* The deal Kate made. She is now forbidden to leave the state and thus can't legally go back to the island for any reason for at least ten years.
* The episode starts with literal eggs: Locke preparing an omelette breakfast for Ben.
* Kate's preocupation with the chance that she might be pregnant, and the continuing references to her child in the episode's flashforwards. "
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