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I wish I could go back in time about 40 years, where I had the same faith in government that you have currently. (I'm age 43 at the moment)
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#192With the obsession over egg prices you’d think everyone is eating two dozen per day or something.
Are you not? When I was a lad I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. And now that I'm grown I eat five dozen eggs (so I'm roughly the size of a barn).
A barn? Should be a barge.
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#193At my local Safeway, low-end eggs have gone up proportionally less than high quality eggs. Cheapest went from $1.50 to $2.50. Pasture raised hen eggs went from $4/dozen to $8.50/dozen in the last year.
Bummer, because the low-quality ones taste... not great, and they have weak yolks.
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Lots of things have eggs as an ingredient, from breakfasts, to breads, pastries, ramens and pastas.
I doubt this is the main explanation, because liquid egg product prices don't necessarily track whole egg prices. I don't know where to look up the current prices for "breaker eggs", but the supply chains are remarkably bifurcated, and even if e.g. the same bird flu outbreak affected both, the effects might evolve differently across time and location.
30 pound pail of eggs is $82. https://www.webstaurantstore.com/frozen-whole-liquid-eggs-30...
But no idea what they used to be - maybe somewhere someone has printed catalogs.
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#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
Anything produce related is going to fluctuate based on location. This is because most produce is bought within some distance of the store (ex: 100 miles).
> This is because most produce is bought within some distance of the store (ex: 100 miles). Living in Canada, this is rarely the case (probably because it's too cold here to grow... most things.) Here in Vancouver, our strawberries comes up the coast from California; our lettuce tends to come all the way from Mexico; etc.
You might be surprised how many things are actually local; vegetables and fruits are the most likely to be shipped long distances (and other things that keep well like potatoes, etc).
But milk and dairy and eggs are often packaged relatively close; but you might not know it unless you know how to read the packaging codes.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wish I could go back in time about 40 years, where I had the same faith in government that you have currently. (I'm age 43 at the moment)
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The context of this one is inflation, and the tracking of it. The statement is that there is an army of government analysts working on it, to get it right.
The reality that I subscribe too (see what I did there?) contains the fact that the government continuously changes the metric from which inflation is measured. And how unemployment is measured. And how much money is in circulation. Until those numbers (and plenty of others) look better than the previous set of numbers.
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#197Like I said to my family members when this topic came up the other day. "Egg prices are barely a blip compared to paying an extra 2 months rent per year for no reason" If investigating collusion...I suggest starting with real estate.
Everything has gone up in price. Egg alone may be barely a blip, but people don't buy one dozen eggs per week to sustain themselves on. They buy a few bags of groceries, which have doubled (or more) in price in the last year where I live - that might be a few hundred per month extra.
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#198I find it kind of strange that $5 for a dozen eggs is considered expensive. I'm from Austria and more used to 2.90€ for half a dozen freerange eggs. How is it possible to pay less than $2 for a dozen eggs without treating the chicken like absolute shit?
> without treating the chicken like absolute shit?
I think you answered your own question. These are not organic, free range. They are kept in shoebox size pens and have horrible lives.
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Which commenter identified as conservative? Or are you mind reading?
These kind of comments are the strangest imho. Do we really need an official declaration to deduce someone who says something as clear as "[I don't have] faith in government that you have currently."? Even if they then claim to be something else -- or even against conservatism -- they still are using the exact same rhetoric GP points out that American conservatives use to unjustly cast doubt on government. It's not helpful to seek out explicit information like this. "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck."
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#200Funny how near east palestine, eggs are the cheapest
100% of people who confuse correlation and causation die. Just sayin’