Maybe don’t waste your money on organic food.
Them eggs is spensive cuz they real good ones. I gottem and gonna eatum with my limited edition cheese and laugh at the poors!
Limited edition cheese - grated, plated and curated!
Just 2 more payments, gentlemen, and this beautiful 12-slot luxury egg carton is all mine!
I have chickens. People refuse to pay $5 a dozen for our pasture eggs. Even though that’s cheaper than any other eggs in the area. I’m also sitting on a dozen goose eggs. A goose egg is three times the size of a chicken egg. They want to pay less than three times the cost of a chicken egg, even though geese only lay during the spring and only lay every other day.
And goose eggs are also way better than chicken eggs for a lot of pastry.
Keep sitting on those goose eggs, when they hatch and you attack with your goose army they’ll all be sorry.
It takes a full year to hatch them and then wait for them to become soldiers since they are only aggressive in the spring. Ain’tnobodygottimeforthat-meme.gif
This is because people assume that you should do it out of the goodness of your heart. Since you’re not mass producing.
Which is absurd.
If anything they should be willing to pay you a premium for a high quality product produced in far better conditions.
no but see it’s about hierarchy. the factory farm is bigger than me, and so I must serve it and obey on its terms. the local farm is just a person. I bet I could take them in a fight. therefore they should serve me and all interactions should be on my terms.
Here in southern california the only eggs I have even seen on shelves are my usual small farmers market eggs, which are now the same price or cheaper than the grocery store. It has been astounding me that the better and now cheaper option is the one not sold out. Humans really are just psychology multiplied.
If me neighbor had eggs like that I would buy it as often as they would let me.
I wish I knew how to find farmers selling eggs like you. $5 for a dozen is a steal. Do you wash them? Or go European style?
They want to pay less than three times the cost of a chicken egg, even though geese only lay during the spring and only lay every other day.
That’s not how markets work though…
If they wanted to go buy a commercial goose egg that’s how it works. Geese eggs are rare. They take a lot of investment in time to produce. If you can’t recoup the costs then you can’t sell as selling requires time and time is money if you believe that labor should be compensated.
No, that’s not how it works. You’ve provided a chart that shows average prices for a specific point in time. That’s it. They are constantly fluctuating, and the price is based on supply and demand.
You don’t get to charge 3x for an egg just because it’s 3x the size. I mean, you can try, but people will not buy it unless that’s the equilibrium price. There is no rule stating that price must increase by the same amount as the size of the thing. That’s silly.
A thing is worth what people are willing to pay for it. Goose eggs simply aren’t as popular as chicken eggs, therefore the demand is lower. Assuming supply remains stable, that means price goes down.
How many years have you worked in the egg business?
Buddy, this is econ 100. This applies to nearly every business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
If you look at the chart there, the equilibrium price is where the supply line and the demand line cross. Assuming supply remains the same, if demand decreases, the equilibrium price will decrease.
If supply increases, and demand decreases, price goes way down.
Wiki probably explains it better.
Yeah, I took econ too. I’m just asking if you have any egg-bird specific experience. If you know about the details of dealing with each kind of bird and the complications that come with the different types. Anyone can econsplain. But do you have industry specific knowledge? Are you successful in this industry? Do you have actionable information that leads to success? Or if are you just repeating highschool level generalities.
There is this idea out there that people shouldn’t take unsolicited advice, especially from people that don’t have any experience in what you are trying to do. So I’m asking the questions to see if you are offering anything of value or are just repeating things without providing that value.
So it’s not “of value,” because what… It’s not new and sexy to you? Sorry that supply and demand is so boring and predictable.
there are ways other than capitalism to support people who do stuff, but im guessing most of these people wouldn’t support you in those ways either, and it’s just a hierarchy issue.
Do the eggs just go to waste then or do you need to eat a lot of extra eggs if you can’t sell them for $5/dozen?
Wouldn’t it make sense to lower the price to what people will pay even if it doesn’t cover the cost of the chickens, but at least reduce the cost of the chickens? If it’s not your main source of income and you have the chickens either way wouldn’t some money be better than no money?
Eggs go to waste. There is no way we can eat them as fast as they come. It’s not really even a factor of price. We could list them as free and even though the stores are sold out we’d still not get rid of them. Selling eggs is similar to the worst parts of Facebook marketplace. People say they will come and don’t. They show up and the eggs aren’t good enough because you don’t feed them the same exact feed they would if they had chickens. They can only buy if there are at least five dozen available. The eggs aren’t white, or blue, or green, or whatever their kink is.
Egg buyers are the most picky people on earth. We did get lucky last year with one couple that would always take whatever we had. But we don’t actually set a price. We live in poverty. We let anyone that shows up pay whatever they want. These people covered our feed costs but that was about it.
In Canada a 30 pack of eggs is $10 CAD, which is just shy of $7 USD.
Must be all that fentanyl making the chicken make more eggs /s
Subscription payment on eggs is wild! lol
You call indebting/loan a “subscription” in US?
We could call it Satan’s hell payment if that fits better or parasitical payment…
Even worse, it’s buy now pay later.
Just watched a video a month ago about how Gen Z is doomed to own nothing when we die, and how so many of us are in crazy debt already because of buy now pay later services. So thankful me and my sister are borderline allergic to spending money and that I just hate shopping for clothes because that shit was depressing to hear.
Apparently my gen fell into this debt whole because we think they’re not the “scary & bad” loans that our 2008 financial crisis parents had, these are “different” somehow 😬
Oh my gosh, this planet is the bad place. Are we in hell and did we all die in Dec 21 2012?
LPT: it’s almost springtime and you can find free eggs in the tree then.
Unless you are in the U.S. and that is likely against the migratory bird act of 1918.
Who’s going to stop me. The government agency that was just decimated. I stopped paying taxes too.
Oh, I’m just providing information so that people can be fully informed. I personally would never try to stop someone from utilizing what the Earth provides in order to survive (to a non-climate changing extent). Only governments do that. Otherwise, I would have had to wait 50 years to try marijuana and that wasn’t going to happen lol
Does the White House still do the egg roll? It sounds Chinese? But the Russians have those nested egg doll things. Which will Trump embrace?
Its also the time of year to start thinking about buying chicks. Its a commitment and I recommend doing your research but if you can properly care for egg laying hens then I highly recommend you consider building the required infrastructure and having hens. There is an initial investment, but now it costs me about $3 to produce a dozen pasture raised eggs.
Just poke tiny holes in them, blow out the contents and return them for a refund.
Just syphon other people’s eggs contents using a long straw whenever they are distracted.
I used to buy these after recent price hikes. To be fair, these were always three times the price than regular eggs.
Random tip: Kala Namak is a condiment which tastes a lot like egg yolk. If you sprinkle it onto some cooked white beans, that’s kind of like scrambled eggs (well, it is different, but also good and might satiate a craving).
Basically, Kala Namak is salt+sulphur. Egg yolk also contains sulphur, and well, sulphur is one of the minerals we should be eating anyways.
Tofu scramble is another good alternative, albeit also not exactly the same. This recipe looks like a decent starting point:
https://www.noracooks.com/tofu-scramble/#wprm-recipe-container-4234
I also really like adding vegetables to my scramble, that’ll make it even less like eggs though.
This is some dystopian shit right here
Chaat masala is delicious and this is one of the main ingredients, along with green mango powder (amchoor). The smell is a bit surprising at first but it’s good.
Building a small den to hold 2 to 4 chickens is cheaper in the long run.
For the city: Renting a parking spot and turning an old junker into a chicken den is also probably cheaper. Just make sure to secure it against egg thiefs.
Not eating eggs is cheapest.
4 × 2.97 < 11.89.
Don’t worry, that’s just the rate if you have perfect credit (*starting at). The people that actually need such a service would likely be paying $3.50 per payment.
Yup. It’s just another predatory service.
Honestly they’re probably taking a loss to punish people who miss payments on their eggs. One person on the debt treadmill is worth a lot more than a few cents… Loans are so shady as an industry, the smaller they are the more they’re just looking to further exploit the poorest people
Either that or they think the dollar is about to deflate lol
why are eggs so atrociously expensive in the US? where i live they’re the equivalent of 3$ USD for a dozen
Because egg producers are using the hype of bird flu to increase profit margins at the expense of their customers.
Grocery stores are following suit by spreading signs about bird flu and increasing their prices as well.
There’s also just a lot of actual bird flu due to awful conditions
Yeah it’s not just made up by big business, it’s the same as when COVID hit.
"Oh, our product is going to be 20% more expensive due to supply chain disruptions… Might as well raise the price by 50% and pocket the rest while blaming it all on the supply chain.
Customers will be mad it’s going up by 20% so they won’t be any more mad if it goes up by 50% instead."
Stop eating eggs. It’s literally animal period if that helps you
why couldn’t you have made literally any other argument against eating eggs? you could have brought up the conditions in chicken farms instead of this pointless appeal to whatever you were trying to appeal to
you did not even write anything to support beeing vegan in the commetns. Thats kinda more sad than what I did ngl. But we both know who the enemy is. Those dead body eaters.
Bro, I am not vegan because it is disgusting. Which is why, I wrote if this helps… because for many people it does not matter how the animals are treated. There are an infinity of good amounts for going vegan.
I was with you in the first sentence. Then you just made me hungry.
Bringing up the chicken shit of people amongst an avian fowl epidemic… sounds red enough. OP never has cared about the country so much as the problem of the day to push the people apart.
But considering OP I’m not surprised this whole post isn’t dedicated to making Biden look bad. Even after the election. Their point is for you to hate everyone regardless…
Are you OK right now? Are you safe from yourself?
Just sick of morons boiling everything down to the price of eggs
Given your post history, I feel bad for this woman.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Yea you’re all good. You’re doing the Lord’s work pushing BS about eggs of all things.
Eggs are expensive because of reasons but this politicalization is fine and your post is completely neutral… by all means post pics of people while ruining discourse.
It’s a memes channel. It’s not that serious.
Just a joke bro. Doesn’t matter how stupid it was… so my words are just a meme… nothing matters. Just a joke bro…
Quick Q: why spend your time on such nonsense if it’s “just a meme”?
Sure you can reply to write it off but really why are you doing this in the first place?
