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?
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.
Before English standardized, you could be in different parts of what is now england and hear ‘egges’ and ‘eier’ depending on which languages influenced things.
This is how knowing Russian/Ukrainian/Belarusian feels.
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
Bonus bysphenols A-Z
Baker’s… half dozen?
🤯
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.
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
Ah yeah, right you are
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
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?
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.
UK is a mess. Some things are measured in metric, some in imperial, and others are measured in stones and sticks and whatnot.
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.
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.
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.
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.
depends on who’s reading it
Same with æg. I can get 10 cage-free æg for 18,- kr incl tax, which is 2.49 USD.
Äggs eez bargain. Almost as good!
If there’s anything I miss about reddit it’s that if you were looking for a place to post something like this you could just go to r/eggs or r/eggprices and it would typically work
/r/weirdeggs for pictures of odd shaped eggs. Very odd and specific subs
Well? Go and make it!
And be the only one to post in it
Such is niche a subreddit’s fate.
I do feel the need to point out that the people posting the astronomical egg prices tend to live in the most expensive areas of the country, and don’t do themselves any favors in terms of their choice of local grocery store.
Eggs are $4 for 12 at Aldi. While that’s a little more than twice what they usually are, it isn’t really the biggest deal in the grand scheme of things for an individual consumer.
15? Wth is this? Insanity.
Eggs come in 6 or 12 packs. That’s it.
The other day I saw a place with a pack of 20 for the first time and had to recheck in what planet I was.
6-packs are available in the US, but it’s mostly 12 and 18-packs. There’s also the giant package, which must canonically be a “pallet” of eggs.
In Singapore, chicken eggs come in packs of 6, 10, 12 (always labelled as having two bonus eggs: 10 + 2), 15, and 30. Duck eggs come in packs of 6. Quail eggs come in cans (NFI how many they include).
It’s the Swedish bakers dozen so you can eat 3 raw eggs + shells on the way home and still have a dozen eggs to put in the fridge. It takes three eggs to equal the calories found in a small donut which is why the bakers dozen eggs is 15 instead of 13.
Come to Japan: 1,2,4,6, and 10 are the common ones (10 is most common at supermarkets). They have flats as well at some stores which I’m guessing are 30 but I don’t remember.
1 and 2? What is this, eggs for ants? 😂
In a place where people often eat raw egg, freshness is important. Also, tiny kitchens
6 or 12? Wth is this? Insanity.
Eggs come in 10 packs. That’s it.
In City Center Supermarket I can get 4 packs.
Now, that’s just sick.
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.
Not terribly off topic, but I’ve been wondering if cage free or free range has had an affect on the spread of bird flu. Our state banned cages long ago, but we still seem hit hard.
We have a local pultry ranch and last I heard they were hit pretty hard, but I think they are free range. I’ve also had a neighbor with a couple chickens in her backyard have to cull one. Oh, and one report of a cat dying. (It’s really bad for pets)
The terms “cage free” and “free range” are near meaningless on an industrial scale. The chickens are still packed in as tightly as regulations allow.
As for smaller producers, I don’t know. It sounds like bird flu is about as contagious as is possible.
This is why I like “pasture raised” as that term has regulatory teeth behind it, at least when I researched it
We have quite a lot of rules and regulations in place for how chickens are allowed to be kept. If you’re curious, Jordbruksverket has a guide on their website., assuming you’re not Swedish here is a machine-translated version.
According to regulations on disease control, poultry kept for food production must be enclosed when they are outside. This also applies if you sell meat or eggs on a smaller scale.
You may only have your birds outside without enclosure if you do not sell meat or eggs from them.
I think this rule was put in place back when there was a bird flu outbreak a few years ago. My old principal used to keep chickens, but she stopped doing that after the outbreak because she felt like the rules around how chickens were allowed to be kept after that was too inhumane. Granted I think she said that you’re not allowed to let them roam free at all so maybe she misunderstood, or maybe the law has been changed since.
Granted I think she said that you’re not allowed to let them roam free at all so maybe she misunderstood, or maybe the law has been changed since.
Seems like you’re required to keep them indoors during the outbreak of a disease like bird flu - there’s mention of this in the section right after the part you quoted.
I think the rules about having some form of enclosure are fairly sensible and probably not incompatible with an acceptable life for the birds. I’d guess a fence around your property would suffice, after all, which would simultaneously serve to make sure that none of your birds get lost.
Ah yes, I’d missed that. Thank you. Her not wanting to lock up the chickens 24/7 for an indeterminate amount of time makes a lot of sense to me. She was very fond of her chickens.
Considering that they have also shot up in price, probably.
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.
And thus we ended up with a 12 hour clock most places
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.
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
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
ägg!
How is this funny?
!mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world or any of the other infuriating communities are probably better
It’s only infuriating to Americans, which makes it funny.
Can confirm.
I’m not American, and I don’t find another country’s distress funny
I find your lack of fun distressing.
Was basically the US price before bird flu.
I’m almost 46, and I never remember a dozen or more eggs being that cheap.
I’m a decade younger, but until about 5 years ago we could get a dozen large eggs for $0.99 (caged). Probably highly dependent upon the area (urban/rural, quality of surrounding land, overall cost of living in relation to wages, etc.).
They are currently over $6/doz here. I’m not sure by how much as I haven’t bought since they were $2/doz., which has been years now.
I’m about the same age and I distinctly remember $1.99/doz was standard for a while.
Check out this chart, things only went crazy in 2022 https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/APU0000708111
Sure, but not $.79 for 15
Where are you getting that price from? OP says 35sk/15 is about $3/15.
Looks like I misread the sign
