This cartoon by Paul Thomas from The Daily Express relates to news that the price of eggs is set to rocket due to an EU ban on battery hens. Read more >>
A woman is in her kitchen stirring a cake mixture in a bowl. A Securicor guard is coming to the house with a carton of eggs. The woman's husband asks, "How much did you shell out on these?"
EXPLANATION
There are two jokes in the cartoon. Firstly, the eggs are so expensive that they have to be delivered by Securicor. And secondly, the use of the verb 'shell out'. If you shell out on something, you spend a lot of money on it. But eggs also have shells (the hard covering that surrounds it), so there's a deliberate play on words.
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