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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Asmo" data-source="post: 4068586" data-attributes="member: 1767">From Lostpedia:"Episode NameEgg-town is a pejorative term that refers to the days of bartering, during the 1800s.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 salesmen 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 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. In either case, the term "egg-town" represents a deal with undesirable outcomes. [source needed] References in this episode include: Locke's inability to makes any progress with the interrogation of Ben or Miles. The deal Kate made. She is now forbidden to leave the state for any reason for at least ten years, and thus can't legally go back to the Island. The barracks turn out to be Egg-town for Miles, as he tries to extort 3.2 million dollars from Ben and ends up with a grenade in his mouth instead. The episode starts with literal eggs: Locke preparing two fried eggs for Ben's breakfast. He tells Ben those are the last two eggs. Kate's preoccupation with the chance that she might be pregnant, and the continuing references to her child in the episode's flashforwards."</blockquote>

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