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?
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.
Just found a receipt in my pocket from yesterday. The smallest shittiest eggs are 33.30 Norwegian Kroner for 12 at co-op xtra ($2.95).
Norwegian krone =/= Swedish krona
I mean 1 krone is 0.97 krona so it’s not a huge difference but I’m sure Americans would point out if someone had been talking about US dollars and a person replied with a comment with, idk, Canadian dollars.
Sorry I’m just pedantic and krona and krone is easy to confuse probably, it’s not like one of them is “the default” like USD when talking of dollars. Although krone and krona do have actually different words, but the difference isn’t a massive one to be fair.
Jo, eg veit at det er en forskjell mellom krone og krona. Men det spiller jo ikke noe rolle. Eg har jo sagt at det er det eg har betalt og spesifisitet at eg snakker om norske kroner. Det er mange andre som har svart på samme måte.
En epäile yhtään ettetkö sä ymmärtäisi eroa kronen ja kronan välillä, mutta kun se ero on niin pieni ja ihmiset jotka ei oo Pohjolasta saattaa sekottaa ne, ni ajattelin painottaa sitä eroa, jotta enemmän jengiä oppii meidän (as in the Nordics) kulttuureista.
áh, ok. mun jáhkken ahte du kommentára lei čujuhuvvon munnje. mu meattáhus.
It might have been, I’m not infallible.
I’m just riding on the wave of possibility bro
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.
Watch this https://watchdominion.org/ and then tell me they are not tortured.
Dominion is a 2018 Australian documentary film filmed primarily with drones and hidden cameras inside Australian slaughterhouses and macro-farms with the aim to expose an opaque and inhumane system, according to the film’s writer, director, and producer, Chris Delforce, an animal rights activist.[1] The film documents multiple animal abuse industries in Australia, especially agricultural livestock, while focusing its message on animal rights.[2][3][4] Dominion portrays the killing of animals through methods such as using carbon dioxide to gas pigs, maceration of chicks, and skinning foxes alive.[5][3][6]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_(2018_film)
This may come as a shock to you, but Australia and Sweden are not only not the same place, they’re also on opposite sides of the planet.
3 for 15 isn’t bad
We are at $6 for 12 and that is for the cheap eggs
The idea of the post is that they aren’t expensive here. The past few weeks, seeing all the price of eggs in the US memes and then I see this at my local store. It’s right by the entrence and a weekly deal, it seems consciously done, haha. Like “those silly Americans, well show that we don’t have any egg problems here.”
The weirdness of it all is that in my area the organic freerange eggs are now the cheapest by far, their prices haven’t gone up, I assume they didn’t lose chickens to bird flu
Funny how if you don’t cram 10,000 chickens into tiny cages all stacked on top of one another…
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.
Is that the American isle? Here in the us, you’ll find the Asian isle, the Hispanic isle, the Curry isle etc depending on your neighborhood. Its encouraging us to shop there when there’s an isle just for us.
I’m gonna be pedantic for just a sec cause I want to share my visualization with you:
Isle - small island
Aisle - row of shelves typically housing objects like groceries or books, etc.
That caused me to think about a small archipelago that could fit in a neighborhood that consisted of different ethnic or national peoples hawking foods. Like large swimming pools with floating stands manned by someone yelling “get your Twinkies here! Twinkies!”
I’m crying.
Ah, when pedanticism leads not to unnecessary eye rolling or hostility but hilarious imagery. Today will be a good day.
Now I really like my grammatical correctness! Thanks stranger for enforcing the laws of the teachers union!
Is that IKEA font?
this picture raises so many questions
why is it in the middle of a corner, why is the box tilted so weird, why aren’t they refrigerated, why are they in 15 packs, why is it ägg, how do you pronounce ägg, what is happening??Europe doesn’t refridgerate eggs, you don’t have to when you don’t wash them. It’s somewhere accessible because it is a sale for them.
People say this, but I still don’t believe it.
And no, that’s not just because I’m an American and love refrigeration. I’ve stayed in Mexico for extended periods and they do the same shit where eggs are left out at the stores.
And every time I’m down there, I play Russian roulette with fucking eggs. Making hotcakes? Crack every egg into a seperate bowl one at a time before adding to the batter, because 1 in 10 are fucking rancid. Making breakfast? Cook eggs one at a time because, again, it’s rancid egg roulette and I’d rather not throw out 2 perfectly good eggs because one is totally fucked.
And yes I know the trick of checking if they float in water, but that means I also have to waste water in a desert. I’d rather just use a separate bowl.
Just because you don’t have to refrigerate something right away doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. My eggs in America last for weeks in the fridge, and I never have to worry about ruining an entire cake or dish because I cracked a bomb of rancid shit into it.
Don’t know about Mexico, but i’ve never had a rotten egg in a fresh carton in Switzerland.
I start doing the swim test when my eggs are 2 weeks over the indicated minimum shelf life, and they are usually only standing up, not swimming yet.
My eggs in Europe last for weeks without refridgirating them. I never cracked a rancid egg in my life. They’re all fresh and “work as intended”.
They aren’t refrigerated because eggs naturally have a coating on them that protects them from spoiling due to exposure. In the US we wash it off in an effort to get things like salmonella off the shells, instead of regulate farm side safety measures
That sounds awesome! I definitely vote for clean, refrigerated eggs.
Why tho? Over here they don’t need refrigeration, keep longer, and are still salmonella-free. Really unproblematic to eat them raw as well.
Smaller stores some times place box shelfs like that do to low amount of wall space and regular spalce.
Why the tilt sometimes do to space issues, sometimes someone moved it or the staff was in a hurry.
Why 15 , we also have 6,10,12,20 and 24, never really reflected on that.
Why are your eggs refrigerated?
Fun fact even though stores don’t keep the eggs in the refrigerator most people do when we get home. I don’t know why that is, either way on the matter.
How to pronounce ägg like egg but with ai from air instead of e.
What is happening eggs on sale at a relative normal price at a normal store.
Thanks, you just made me realise I used the same vowel in “air” and “egg” and it makes me uncomfortable.
We do the same re: fridge in Australia, although stores are increasingly moving them to fridges recently.
My speculation is supermarkets maximise for cost, homes maximise for longevity.
Alternatively, homes tend to get hotter than supermarkets.
I’m sorry for that, then I can’t really help to much with the pronunciation.
My mum has the same theory about temperature, makes some sense I haven’t really noticed but I also haven’t measured it.
Intresting that Australia dose the same.
Do you do the same with the word leg? This is typical in Ohio or another part of Midwest US.
I say egg. People in Ohio say ayyyg and layyyg, drawing out the vowel. Do you do this as well?
The sound is longer in “air” than “egg” and “leg”. Egg and leg are perfect rhymes for me
How do you pronounce the word oil?
I would love to tell you, but I have no idea how to convey that in text
I guess “oyul”? I can’t really describe that first sound, maybe a shortened “or” as in “horse” (non-rhotic). The second vowel I’ve represented with a “u” is a schwa.
Because of differing standards of bacteria
https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/health/diet-nutrition/do-eggs-need-to-be-refrigerated?op=1
Also, are you really confused why a language with common roots with English has similar but different spelling? Did you know that we call children Barn (see bairn) or the old word for window is Vindöga ?
A newer loan word is Tejp for tape, and in my car I have a radio. Garage is the same word, but weather and väder are just almost
Eggs don’t have to be refrigerated unless the shells have been cleaned
Those are some pretty easy to answer questions?
- for the same reason a kitchen island is in the middle of a corner
- it’s a pallet of eggs, someone dropped it there with a jig
- it seems one side of the corner has a barrier, the pallet attemps to complete it and prevent people from going that way (a cash register might be there). Or the person dropping it wasn’t careful
- only bleached eggs need a fridge, most of the world doesn’t bleach their eggs so they can stay on the counter.
- why not 15? Base 12 makes sense because it’s a highly divisible number (1/2/3/4/6/12) so a lot of stuff are dozens or half a dozens, but there’s no reason eggs need to be. It likely has to do with “the packing problem” which is a difficult math problem of how to shape stuff so you fit the most in a truck load
- other countries have other languages, and even sometimes completely different alphabets that resemble or share the same roots as English
- you are experiencing another culture.
It costs… 35 what? What kind of currency is
:-? I don’t speak IKEA.Krona, i.e. Swedish crowns. One’s about $0.09.
They denote their currency with :-? Wtf is that? It looks like a lil mosquito
Yeah, we did that in Finland too before euros.
I think it denotes the cents. 35:23 would mean “35 kronor and 23 öre” (where öre is 1/100s of a krona). 35:- means “35 kronor” and “0 öre”.
Ohhh, okay, that actually makes a lot of cents. Thanks!
Goddammit, dimes!
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.
Sometimes yeah, there might be a tiny bit of dried poop with like a tiny feather stuck on the egg.
Depending on what I do with them though you can always just give em a wash if you want to. But if I’m just cracking it to a pan why bother?
Here in Finland our eggs are so good that the government’s official guideline is that it is safe to eat raw eggs.
Now the US might get a similar official stance with brainworm man as the highest health official, but I don’t think I would trust them as much as the Finnish food authorities. And while I don’t trust my government to not fuck shit up in general, food hygiene has never been an issue.
Finally, someone is asking the real questions.
They are poop free. They are cleaned but not the same way as in the USA. More a tidy up than a wash.
Fun fact, unlike the rest of the EU, sweden does wash almost all its eggs. Unlike the United States, Sweden has very strict rules regarding how that wash is done though, and the eggs does 't loose their membrane.
In the EU washed eggs are generally illegal to sell outside of the country of origin, Sweden is granted an exemption from that rule due the gentle nature of the wash.
ägg!
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.
What is that “:-” symbol next to the number? I thought they used “kr” as the symbol for their money?
It’s short for 35:00, so the price is 35 kronor and 0 ören
Ah that makes sense. Like the other guy said that just makes me think of time lol.
: is an interesting separator that I would only think of for time
i’ve made a post about his before, but it sort of used to be an öre separator. it’s just that people have forgotten, so now you get stuff like “23,50:-”
I’m just working off context here, can’t really defend the Swedes. It seems a little unusual to me too.
But I can’t complain too much, because there are plenty of weirdoes in my country who use single dots for time, which I find even worse. Especially because the dot is also often a decimal separator. So depending on context 9.25 can be 09:25 or 9 hours and 15 minutes.
I like to keep things simple and don’t use any separator at all for time.
they use :- instead of currency symbol because then you don’t think of it as money, you are more likely to happily pay a bigger price
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.
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.
6 or 12? Wth is this? Insanity.
Eggs come in 10 packs. That’s it.
In City Center Supermarket I can get 4 packs.
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).
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
