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?
It’s weird, there is no reason for eggs to be expensive. Eggs are ultra cheap to manufacture. You can do that anywhere and just need some kind of food because they can eat a lot of different things. It doesn’t need precious metals or rare earth or patents or import raw materials - any country can just produce chickens and eggs easily.
So egg prices skyrocketing is either a fundamental dysfunction in a countries economy. Or maybe a political move to influence an election.
well, losing tens of millions of hens to bird flu is bound to make a dent in the supply side of the supply/demand balance.
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.
Ägg is not what I expected the Swedish word for egg to be.
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.
R$25, or ~4 dollars for 30 eggs in Brazil
It’s about 5-6000 KRW/30 eggs here in Seoul, provided you go for the cheapest ones, so about $4 per 30.
Everything else is ridiculously expensive though
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.
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?
Yeah, some of them could have some dried up poop on the shell. Not often and not many though. But you can wash them before you use them.
They are poop free. They are cleaned but not the same way as in the USA. More a tidy up than a wash.
Finally, someone is asking the real questions.
Is that IKEA font?
No idea how much money 35:-/st is, but apparently it’s marked down from 42:95/st, so I’ll take two please.
Yeah, the off brand is always cheaper
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).
Wow! Meanwhile in Sweden you can get chicken menstruations from tortured individuals for only a fraction of the price! Wow! So amazing!
Tortured Individuals? The eggs pictured are free range.
Those words mean nothing other than show how ignorant you are of their conditions, and the final moments of their drastically short existence.
i think chicken conditions are probably better in sweden that the vast majority of other countries, definitely including the US, so i’m not sure what your point is here.
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
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)
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.
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.
Considering that they have also shot up in price, probably.
Ohhh, siracha. My Edeka only has those really tiny scam-bottles, and only one type.
