Surely the fault of the farmer's DEI policies...
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"let's keep the focus on Gulf of 'Merica, alright?" - Government
Don’t forget those pesky immigrants. /s
I've seen a lot of talk about cracking eggs in trans communities. This is clearly their fault!
They’re $12+ in NY. I can hear a Kramer and Newman scheme brewing.
Anyone know where we can get a fuel-efficient refrigerated truck on the cheap? Lol
I was going to say "just use whatever car you have access to, ice packs will last the drive" but after doing the math.....probably not worth it unless you have a truck. I'm NOT going to do that math but here's what I worked out for a car:
It's 800 miles and the average new car apparently gets 27.5mpg, though I'm going to round that up to 30 because it's mostly highway driving. At a (low) estimate of $3/gallon, that's 27 gallons one way so that's $162 for the full trip
Some quick searching says I can get 40qt coolers for $4 (local pickup). I'm assuming you'd want to keep the boxes for resale so a dozen eggs is about 12x4x3. I can't find the internal dimensions for the cooler but let's assume 12x24x14.
Each layer could fit 6 dozen eggs. Let's make that 5 so we have room for the ice packs. For the same reason, we'll say the eggs can be stacked 3 layers high. So 15 dozen or 180 eggs.
I do not want to think about car sizes so I'm gonna straight up guess: you can fit about of these 12 coolers in a sedan. That's 2160 eggs in this ridiculous math problem.
I'm gonna say 5-6 ice packs per cooler so you'll need 60-72. I found a place where you can get 100 for about $150 so we'll go with that.
Now the eggs. You'd need to buy 180 dozen for $7.50, $1350.
Your total costs would be
54 gallons of fuel: $162
12 styrofoam coolers: $48
100 ice packs: $150
2160 eggs (180 dozen): $1350
$1710 for the whole trip.
Now let's take your local prices and assume you're selling your black market eggs at a discount - $10 per dozen. If you sold every single one, you're at $90 in profit driving a normal car.
Ah, the egg crisis—again. Remember when they blamed inflation on avocado toast and millennials? Now it’s bird flu and “supply chain disruptions.” Convenient how every corporate profit surge gets a fresh apocalyptic label. Remember 2020’s toilet paper panic? Same playbook: manufacture scarcity, hike prices, blame nature.
Your breakfast is now a speculative asset. Farmers cull flocks, execs cash in, and we’re left decoding USDA press releases like Talmudic texts. Remember when eggs were just… eggs? Now they’re a political litmus test. “Do you support Big Poultry?”
Democracy’s corpse twitches as we argue over carton prices instead of the monopolies jacking them up. Nothing unites like collective delusion. But sure, let’s debate free-range ethics while the real hens roost in boardrooms.
Incoming executive order to change the name of "salt" to "eggs" thereby leading to the lowest egg prices in decades!
Damn. My local prices are $4.49, $5.61, $6.06, and $6.51; respectively.
Yeah same here. I just bought eggs this morning.
Free range 700g eggs for a pack of 12 is $6.10 AUD
That's 3.84 usd.
You guys are really getting shafted
That's what they cost here literally two months ago 😔
I got a dozen eggs this weekend for just under $5 in this exact area. This feels like cherry picked ragebait.
Just saw a dozen for $9 here
I went to whole foods last night and was able to get a dozen "organic" large dozen eggs for $5.99. Not that there weren't more expensive options, but it makes me doubt the "wholesale" pricing was $7.50 unless as I alluded to in a previous comment, the stores are subsidizing them as a loss leader.
Why would the current administration do that though? These prices are straight from the Department of Agriculture. They show a 30% increase in price between 1/3 and 2/7. That can't be good press
I don't understand your question. Why would the current administration do what? Also I don't believe I brought up anything related to the current administration. I am only speaking with regards to the prices that I have seen in person that do not reflect what an article says and used my area as an example.
Why would the current administration release a report with cherry-picked data that makes the price of eggs look higher, when that's something the current president ran on lowering
Midwest is a pretty big 'exact area' to call it cherry picked. I haven't particularly paid attention to the price recently but it was just a few years ago I recall them being less than $2 so even $5 is a pretty big increase.
The specific place they mention and take a pic of was a Cub in Minneapolis, which is what I was referring to.
Convenient that I happen to be in MN too then. Out in the corn fields they're certainly up. Like I said, generally I don't pay attention to things specifically, more the aggregate total that for me has stayed pretty much within $100 range of any given month to month without any major changes to habits.
They went up near me and my wife and I are looking at straight up eggs as more a luxury and prioritize their use in baking. We went organic pasteur raised and would rather cut back than lose that nice dark yolk flavor.
I'm not familiar with Coborns, but I usually shop at Cub, Hyvee, or some of the smaller local stores. I've been paying very close attention to prices, which is why I have actually been a bit confused why we haven't been seeing a more dramatic price hike on eggs as the media has been reporting. It could be that some of the stores are using egg prices to compete, which is artificially stabilizing the price a little. No idea, but the article specifically had a picture from Cub in Minneapolis, so I felt more than familiar enough to cast some doubt.
I only started buying eggs regularly recently, but they are up to $6.99 at my local store. Not Midwest but I am in a place where there's lots of locals who have their own chicken and small farms. So that price is wicked surprising. Imma just nab some from my friend for the cartons
$5.82 a dozen for large in MO