That’s $3 for 15 eggs. Sadly not free-range, only cage-free.
Not sure if this is the best community for this post, does anyone have a better suggestion?
Excuse me, but Donald Trump never promised to make äggs cheaper for Americans.
Just eggs.
How is that going anyway?
He was talking about human eggs.
Ah, in that case all he had to do was devalue women. Mission accomplished!
That makes eggs more expensive in comparasion.
Women aren’t buying them. Elon musk is buying them for his incubation vats. You know for his army of zef clones.
Do libs really believe Trump is causing the egg prices, or are y’all just trying to help keep bird flu out of the public discussion?
No, we don’t think that Trump has the power to manipulate the prices like that. But his voters absolutely believed he would bring down grocery prices and specifically eggs. He also said that multiple times.
Well, egg prices will come down during his presidency, so that’s an easy promise to fulfill by doing exactly nothing.
You’d have to ask them. I really believe Trump said he was going to lower the price of eggs. How’s that working out?
To be fair, that’s one campaign promise he’ll make good on, because eventually the egg supply will return. He doesn’t even need to do anything!
Doesn’t mean it will come back cheaper though. Who’s going to punish companies for price gouging now?
They did the last several times this happened (plus regular inflation), what makes this time different?
I’m guessing $2.50-3/dz at Costco, because they were ~$2.50/dz before the flu and inflation keeps trucking along.
I give it 6-ish months, and I’ll be surprised if prices aren’t below $3/dz at my local Costco by EOY.
Republicans controlling all three branches of government and looking the other way while businesses charge whatever the hell they feel like charging and collude to keep the prices artificially high.
Chickens go from egg to laying in about 6 months. So maybe I’ll believe you if prices are still high ($4+/dz) at EOY. I’m guessing we’ll be <$3/dz by then (at my local Costco, that is).
Why would I have to ask “them”? You’re right here standing on the claim.
Of course Trump can’t do anything to lower the price of food. Neither party is capable of doing that, because neither is willing to fight corporate grocers and farmers. But I notice both the libs & conservatives are working hand-in-hand to deny coverage to the bird flu outbreak. Putting the egg price on Trump just seems like your side’s version of pandemic denial in service of Big Ag.
Sorry, I am not a “lib” and you wanted to know what they thought. I cannot help you there.
And if you don’t want to be laughed at for not being able to keep your stupid pledges, don’t make stupid pledges.
What “side” am I on anyway? You seem to know a lot about me, so please inform me.
I dunno. I guess another ideology that’s comfortable with spreading Big Ag disinfo. Trying to also spin it into a Trump own implied lib.
You tell me. What political ideology is driving you to post nonsense?
So, making a shit post joke about how Trump pledged to bring down the cost of eggs, thus having his cult believe the prices of eggs were going to go down due to him, and they a currently rising, with no end in sight, because the president doesn’t control the price of eggs, is spreading AG prop and trying to cover up the fact that the bird flu is raising the prices?
You must have extremely long arms to be able to reach that far.
There are Olympics level mental gymnastics going on with that one. I wouldn’t spend too much time trying to figure out what they’re going on about. It’s a level of stupidity mere mortals cannot fathom.
What political ideology is driving me to post nonsense in c/funny…
You know, I’ll have to ponder that one.
Big Ag likes the Orange Numbnuts. Farm subsidies, SOCIALISM, increased from $4 billion to over $20 billion because of his failed trade war against China. Guess who received that pile of cash for nothing? Big Ag. Jan 2025 to Jan 2029 will be a catastrophic repeat and prices will go through the roof under the GOP. The illegal labor used in the entire food industry chain, mostly in red counties, will also cause prices to increase. The latest bird flu case broke out in the red run deregulated welfare state of Louisiana and I’m certain the farmer over filled the chicken batteries to maximize profits.
I think I’m more bothered by the fact that it’s 15 eggs rather than a dozen or 18. I’m used to seeing eggs in multiples of six. This is weirding me out.
Metric eggs!!
Base-5 eggs
Based eggs.
This gave me a good laugh
Oh wow, their chickens don’t pop 6 at a time ehh.
/s
Slacker chickens.
Boi, do I have an abomination for you
This seems inconvenient for retailers.
It takes up more space than the traditional cuboid
It wouldn’t if they’d make the sides flat. Hexagons pack nicely. Except the edges I guess.
Solution: hexagonal stores. Hexagons are the bestagons.
Delivered in hexagonal truck, trains, and ships.
Bonus egg
Baker’s… half dozen?
Bonus bysphenols A-Z
Common sizes in Sweden are 6, 12, 15 and 24.
No idea how 15 made it in there, it is what it is.
some do 10 as well
I haven’t thought about that, haven’t bought eggs for almost a decade so I generally don’t look at them. I think it’s a brand thing now that I looked at different store sites, some are 6, 12 or 24, others are 10, 15 or 30.
Shrinkflation is brutal.
They sell eggs in packages of 6, 10, 12 and 15 in Tesco here in the UK.
Only 15 confuses me. Why not make it an even number every time?
UK is a mess. Some things are measured in metric, some in imperial, and others are measured in stones and sticks and whatnot.
Why 10 and 12? Just pick one…
At least those are even numbers. 15 doesn’t even make sense to me from a packaging perspective. I would think a square 4x4 carton of 16 would be more efficient to pack in a truck than a 3x5 carton of 15.
Why? We generally get 3x6 or 4x6 cartons in my area, which aren’t too different from 3x5 dimension-wise. Longer cartons are better IMO since they make better use of fridge space. I would hate a 4x4 carton BTW.
I’m a weirdo that likes to make myself 4 eggs at a time. WHERE DO I GET THE LAST EGG??
Gotta buy 4 packs to even it out
All I see is a pile of Äggs. Eggs on the other hand, those fuckers are expensive.
:P
The two dots above the A means they’re fancy!
Must be from one of those bird species with spotted eggs?
They’re from Österreich
Ostriches then, got it.
Ägg and egg is pronounced almost identically.
Same with æg. I can get 10 cage-free æg for 18,- kr incl tax, which is 2.49 USD.
This is interesting to see as someone who hasn’t been able to afford to travel. One of the cool things since learning German that I have noticed is that I can read a lot of Swedish and Dutch. Those languages kind of look like a combination of English and German with alternative spelling to me now.
Yeah I would say there’s a spectrum of intelligibility of English - Dutch - Swedish - German.
I noticed you excluded Danish.
This is how knowing Russian/Ukrainian/Belarusian feels.
Buying eggs 15 at the times? Funny indeed.
I mean Norway sells them in packs of 6, 10 (occasionally), 12 or 18. But it is odd that a metric country would sell them in multiples of 6. Although I suppose 12 is a good number generally because it divides easily into 2, 3, 4, and 6 so splitting it is easier unless you have a family of 5.
I have a family of 5 and splitting is never really a consideration. I guess some recipes could be a little easier with multiples of 2 or 3, but I usually just make as many as we’ll eat. Sometimes that’s 11 eggs, sometimes it’s 5. There’s no pattern.
My main consideration is what will fit in my refrigerator nicely. That’s it.
And thus we ended up with a 12 hour clock most places
Here in Russia we have big shortage of eggs. They are insanely expensive. 100 roubles for 10! Entire 1 dollar!
Yes but in Putin’s Russia the egg eats you.
Those eggs pay for being bought
How is this funny?
[email protected] or any of the other infuriating communities are probably better
It’s only infuriating to Americans, which makes it funny.
I’m not American, and I don’t find another country’s distress funny
I find your lack of fun distressing.
Is that the American isle? Here in the us, you’ll find the Asian isle, the Hispanic isle, the Curry isle etc depending on your neighborhood. Its encouraging us to shop there when there’s an isle just for us.
I’m gonna be pedantic for just a sec cause I want to share my visualization with you:
Isle - small island
Aisle - row of shelves typically housing objects like groceries or books, etc.
That caused me to think about a small archipelago that could fit in a neighborhood that consisted of different ethnic or national peoples hawking foods. Like large swimming pools with floating stands manned by someone yelling “get your Twinkies here! Twinkies!”
I’m crying.
Now I really like my grammatical correctness! Thanks stranger for enforcing the laws of the teachers union!
Ah, when pedanticism leads not to unnecessary eye rolling or hostility but hilarious imagery. Today will be a good day.
They get even cheaper than this as well - this is on sale at Hemköp for the non-organic brand. If you look at Lidl for the same category, the regular price is approximately the same. To get lower you’d have to buy the 24-pack. If you get it on sale, then you’re looking at basically the best price imaginable, probably somewhere below 2 SEK/egg.
non-organic brand
Mineral eggs, straight from caves.
Delicious! Though not quite as good as the meteorite eggs, straight from space.
Yea but we’re talking American eggs here. They just cost more for some reason that we can’t seem to find out why.
They just cost more for some reason that we can’t seem to find out why.
golly gee what could it be…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/as-bird-flu-ravages-poultry-industry-the-damage-spreads/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/science/bird-flu-aid-animal-welfare.html
All very good points. But there was an acute shortage of eggs in Norway a few months ago and they just shipped them in from Denmark. But they kept the prices high even after the shortage was resolved. Malignant capitalism has a far greater share of the responsibility.
Valid, there’s far too little oversight on price gouging and profiteering and I think coupled with a major pandemic, the penalties should be severe for anyone caught engaging in them.
I dunno, I saw some brown eggs in my Texas supermarket last week.
All those woke DEI chickens are leading to a genocide against wholesome, white, AMERICAN eggs.
Goddamn you DEI!!! 😂
😂
American eggs are refrigerated so therefore they have a much shorter shelf life.
sweden also refrigerates their eggs.
R$25, or ~4 dollars for 30 eggs in Brazil
You’re getting scammed bro; there is a store in my city that sell them 30 eggs for R$15 (2.58 USD on current quotation) and I live on the Ribeirão Preto region of São Paulo in a small city.
uai, eu moro no DF 🤷♂️
Atá, ovo de politico é caro mesmo
Why aren’t the egss refrigerated?
Eggs have a natural membrane that is removed through washing in the USA amongst other places, for example. This membrane allows eggs a longer shelflife and also allows them to be kept unrefrigerated
The USDA requires eggs to be washed, which removes the natural protective coating. Then they need to be kept cool in a refrigerator.
Over there the eggs aren’t required to be washed so the natural protective coating stays on. No refrigeration needed.
Fun fact, unlike the rest of the EU, sweden does wash almost all its eggs. Unlike the United States, Sweden has very strict rules regarding how that wash is done though, and the eggs does 't loose their membrane.
In the EU washed eggs are generally illegal to sell outside of the country of origin, Sweden is granted an exemption from that rule due the gentle nature of the wash.
As someone who used to raise chickens, I know that the eggs can be covered in poop. Does this leave poop on the eggs in the store if they are unwashed?
Sometimes yeah, there might be a tiny bit of dried poop with like a tiny feather stuck on the egg.
Depending on what I do with them though you can always just give em a wash if you want to. But if I’m just cracking it to a pan why bother?
Here in Finland our eggs are so good that the government’s official guideline is that it is safe to eat raw eggs.
Now the US might get a similar official stance with brainworm man as the highest health official, but I don’t think I would trust them as much as the Finnish food authorities. And while I don’t trust my government to not fuck shit up in general, food hygiene has never been an issue.
Why does America have a bird flu problem while other countries do not?
Just found a receipt in my pocket from yesterday. The smallest shittiest eggs are 33.30 Norwegian Kroner for 12 at co-op xtra ($2.95).
Norwegian krone =/= Swedish krona
I mean 1 krone is 0.97 krona so it’s not a huge difference but I’m sure Americans would point out if someone had been talking about US dollars and a person replied with a comment with, idk, Canadian dollars.
Sorry I’m just pedantic and krona and krone is easy to confuse probably, it’s not like one of them is “the default” like USD when talking of dollars. Although krone and krona do have actually different words, but the difference isn’t a massive one to be fair.
Jo, eg veit at det er en forskjell mellom krone og krona. Men det spiller jo ikke noe rolle. Eg har jo sagt at det er det eg har betalt og spesifisitet at eg snakker om norske kroner. Det er mange andre som har svart på samme måte.
En epäile yhtään ettetkö sä ymmärtäisi eroa kronen ja kronan välillä, mutta kun se ero on niin pieni ja ihmiset jotka ei oo Pohjolasta saattaa sekottaa ne, ni ajattelin painottaa sitä eroa, jotta enemmän jengiä oppii meidän (as in the Nordics) kulttuureista.
áh, ok. mun jáhkken ahte du kommentára lei čujuhuvvon munnje. mu meattáhus.
It might have been, I’m not infallible.
I’m just riding on the wave of possibility bro
No idea how much money 35:-/st is, but apparently it’s marked down from 42:95/st, so I’ll take two please.
It’s approximately 11 SEK to a dollar. Used to be less, but that was pre-pandemic.
7 sek -> 1 usd
Det var bättre förr 🥲
