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no idea, but as a guess id say its the authors terminology for the elite (eggs), merchant class (beans), and peasants(crumpets).
If i were to analyze it, i would say the eggs are considered elite because eggs are fragile and decadent.
the merchants are always counting their beans to make sure theres more coming than going...
Crumpets...well its a bread reference, probably coming from times where the poor peoples diet was almost entirely of bread. although a crumpet is a dessert bread, so perhaps its to say the poor arent so bad off?
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