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)
Considering that they have also shot up in price, probably.
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.
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.
I’m not American, and I don’t find another country’s distress funny
I find your lack of fun distressing.
Can confirm.
3 for 15 isn’t bad
We are at $6 for 12 and that is for the cheap eggs
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…
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.”
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 about the same age and I distinctly remember $1.99/doz at one point.
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
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 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.
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
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. Hexsgons 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.
Metric eggs!!
This gave me a good laugh
Oh wow, their chickens don’t pop 6 at a time ehh.
/s
Base-5 eggs
Based eggs.
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.
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.
Same with æg. I can get 10 cage-free æg for 18,- kr incl tax, which is 2.49 USD.
depends on who’s reading it
Äggs eez bargain. Almost as good!
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”.
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
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.
Eggs don’t have to be refrigerated unless the shells have been cleaned
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.
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 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.
I would love to tell you, but I have no idea how to convey that in text
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.
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.
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
Well? Go and make it!
And be the only one to post in it
Such is niche a subreddit’s fate.
/r/weirdeggs for pictures of odd shaped eggs. Very odd and specific subs
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
: 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
Ah that makes sense. Like the other guy said that just makes me think of time lol.
Why are eggs so expensive in Sweden, not even fancy organic free range eggs?
I think everything is expensive in the Nordic countries
Organic outdoor eggs are about $0.50 an egg in Sweden near me. The eggs in the picture are free-range indoor and are less than $0.10 per egg.
The price is in Swedish kroner its about $3.20 for 15 eggs.
Actually that’s significantly cheaper than Norway rn. If it weren’t for the price of fuel I’d be going on a road trip.
Ok after converting from GBP its not quite as overpriced as I first thought on seeing it.
Is $3 for 15 eggs expensive? I pay $3.50 for a dozen in the Netherlands
And du sparar 7.95!
Ohhh, siracha. My Edeka only has those really tiny scam-bottles, and only one type.
Do they have any vastly superior hot sauces for sale?
Sorry I’m being a dick but I really don’t get the Sriracha love. Now crispy chili oil from the same company, hell yeah.
Well, it’s hot, but not too hot. As in, easy to portion. Apart from that, I could also use Tabasco, Jalapenos or any other off or onbrand hot sauce. Except those aren’t as easy to portion.
No idea how much money 35:-/st is, but apparently it’s marked down from 42:95/st, so I’ll take two please.
It’s approximately 11 SEK to a dollar. Used to be less, but that was pre-pandemic.
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 or 12? Wth is this? Insanity.
Eggs come in 10 packs. That’s it.
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.
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).
In City Center Supermarket I can get 4 packs.
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
