Now, I kept seeing references about egg prices being ridiculous here on Lemmy. I live in Australia and free range eggs here are rather expensive, around $6 - $9 a dozen. For some perspective for Americans, here with $8.90 you can get a Big Mac (no fries, no drinks), or for $7.95 a regular size popcorn chicken at KFC. Personally the average cost of groceries if I am cooking myself is around $15 to $20 per day, but I don't eat a lot.

How do egg prices stack against other things in the States?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I believe the average price in the US has risen to around 9.5 AUD. I'm not entirely sure what the situation or scale is in other countries, but the bird flu epidemic is causing devastation due to the industrialization and scale of our farming. It's so bad, I am willing to bet the first stable human to human transmissible variant will form here in the US.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Thanks, $9 AUD is on the pricier end. I can make a conversion too but I find I need the context of the cost of living for it to make sense, hence why I compared it to other food prices.

Also- are these free range, cage free or cage eggs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

I couldn't tell you specifics, I read it recently in an article. It was the average for the whole country, so there will be quite a bit of variation. I don't buy many eggs personally.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Saw a dozen eggs for $15 or so, a big mac at the McD's 2 blocks away is $6.49. Granted this is downtown in a big city so everything is expensive, but I still had to laugh at how much eggs cost

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Wow, that guy's loaded

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My friend sent me a picture of eggs at 12.50 in Denver, what are the record egg prices around you guys?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 21 hours ago

$6 for our cheapest dozen eggs at my local store in my neck of the woods in Washington.

So about triple where they were last year.

We have quite a few farms right in the area so the price is normally pretty low.