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.
Chickens do have vitamin, mineral, and macronutrient requirements to maintain health, produce eggs, and produce the next generation of healthy chicks. So it’s not just “anything” in that sense. Some areas couldn’t support sustained, particularly large-scale, flocks with only inputs from the local environment. That said, they’re not too finicky.
Secondarily, whole flocks, commerical and backyard, are being culled to attempt to contain avian influenza. One human recently died after getting it (they had a backyard flock and also other health problems).
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 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
How is this funny?
[email protected] 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.
All I see is a pile of Äggs. Eggs on the other hand, those fuckers are expensive.
:P
Äggs eez bargain. Almost as good!
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
Baker’s… half dozen?
Bonus bysphenols A-Z
Metric eggs!!
Oh wow, their chickens don’t pop 6 at a time ehh.
/s
This gave me a good laugh
Base-5 eggs
Based eggs.
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 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.
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
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.”
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!
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!
Yea but we’re talking American eggs here. They just cost more for some reason that we can’t seem to find out why.
I dunno, I saw some brown eggs in my Texas supermarket last week.
All those woke DEI chickens are leading to a genocide against wholesome, white, AMERICAN eggs.
American eggs are refrigerated so therefore they have a much shorter shelf life.
They just cost more for some reason that we can’t seem to find out why.
golly gee what could it be…
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/as-bird-flu-ravages-poultry-industry-the-damage-spreads/
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/science/bird-flu-aid-animal-welfare.html
All very good points. But there was an acute shortage of eggs in Norway a few months ago and they just shipped them in from Denmark. But they kept the prices high even after the shortage was resolved. Malignant capitalism has a far greater share of the responsibility.
Valid, there’s far too little oversight on price gouging and profiteering and I think coupled with a major pandemic, the penalties should be severe for anyone caught engaging in them.
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.
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??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 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
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.
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
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”.
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:-”
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
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.
ägg!
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.
