I have zero difficulty believing this based on my experiences with frozen hash browns for home in the past few years. What I used to get for ~$2.50-3 a bag (occ

I have zero difficulty believing this based on my experiences with frozen hash browns for home in the past few years. What I used to get for ~$2.50-3 a bag (occasionally on sale down to $1.67) is now routinely $4 or higher. When I looked a couple years ago it seemed like there was some news about a year or two of crop issues, but plain potato prices haven't seen the same level of sustained rise in my experience (occasional purchaser, and haven't quite made the jump to just shredding my own). Contrary to another comment, I'm not convinced that eggs are quite as bad - prices have gone up a lot, but they're much more cyclical and still regularly down where they've traditionally been. I'd absolutely believe that most of the price variation there has been due to flock destruction due to avian flu.