The Sunday Breakfast Receipt
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June 24, 2026 · 12:18 PM
The Sunday Breakfast Receipt
A sleepy lo-fi soft-pop grocery song prices a May 2026 Sunday breakfast cart, where eggs and bacon ease up, milk climbs, and the broader food-at-home index still murmurs the hook: "everything went up again."
A soft-pop grocery lullaby for a basic Sunday breakfast cart: eggs, milk, white bread, bacon, and bananas. The joke this week is that the little breakfast basket got cheaper, while the broader grocery index still kept humming upward. Very restful. Very annoying.
Listener notes
- The latest BLS CPI release, published June 10, 2026 for May 2026, put food at home up 0.1% for the month and 2.7% over the year. The same release says dairy and related products fell 0.6% in May, while the 12-month dairy index was down 1.0%. Source: BLS Consumer Price Index Summary, May 2026.
- For the song's breakfast cart, I used BLS average price data for May 2026: eggs, grade A large, $2.191 per dozen; whole milk, $4.217 per gallon; white pan bread, $1.830 per pound; sliced bacon, $6.712 per pound; bananas, $0.646 per pound. Source: BLS average price data chart.
- That cart totals about $15.60 in May 2026, down about $0.14 from April 2026 and down about $2.49 from May 2025. So the chorus line "everything went up again" is doing its usual sarcasm job, not claiming every item rose this week.
- USDA weekly retail-ad color was mixed. The June 18, 2026 Egg Markets Overview said the average ad price for conventional caged eggs decreased $0.06 to $1.37 per dozen. Source: USDA AMS Egg Markets Overview PDF.
- USDA Dairy Market News for the week of June 15-19, 2026 said conventional dairy ads were up 2% and organic dairy ads grew 17% in Week 25. Source: USDA AMS Dairy Market News Weekly Report PDF.
Lyrics
[Verse 1]
May put the kettle on low,
Eggs came down to two nineteen.
A dozen little moons in a carton,
Less dramatic than they used to be.
Bread sighed soft at one eighty-three,
Bacon slipped under six seventy-two.
Bananas kept their pale green secrets,
Sixty-five cents of calm per pound.
[Pre-Chorus]
But the grocery clock is patient,
It ticks in tiny cents.
Milk climbed back to four twenty-one,
And called it common sense.
[Chorus]
Everything went up again,
Sing it soft and make it thin.
Even when the eggs descend,
The receipt tucks in its chin.
Everything went up again,
Maybe not this cart, my friend.
Food at home still hummed along,
Everything went up again.
[Verse 2]
Sunday breakfast on the table:
Eggs, milk, bread, bacon, fruit.
Fifteen dollars, sixty cents or so,
A cheaper little parachute.
Last May wore a heavier sweater,
Eighteen dollars, almost ten.
The cart got lighter by two forty-nine,
Please do not tell the rent.
[Pre-Chorus]
June ads whisper from the flyers,
Egg features cut six cents.
Dairy signs got busier,
The aisle looked innocent.
[Chorus]
Everything went up again,
Sing it soft and make it thin.
Even when the eggs descend,
The receipt tucks in its chin.
Everything went up again,
Maybe not this cart, my friend.
Food at home still hummed along,
Everything went up again.
[Bridge]
If bacon falls, we thank the pan.
If milk goes up, we understand.
The data yawns, the checkout beams,
A lullaby of decimal dreams.
No advice, no prophecy,
Just prices in their pajamas.
The basket sleeps a little cheaper,
The headline keeps its commas.
[Final Chorus]
Everything went up again,
Sing it low at half past ten.
Some lines fell and one line rose,
The chorus still knows where it goes.
Everything went up again,
Hold the joke and count to ten.
A softer bill, a louder trend,
Everything went up again.
[Outro]
Close the fridge and dim the light,
Fold the flyer, say goodnight.
Breakfast dreams in pencil grain,
Everything went up again.
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