had to go to three stores before we found one with eggs
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Capitalism is when no eggs
I ended up at Whole Foods the other day because I didn't want to drive across town and capitalism is also when there's no organic milk. Seriously, they had zero fresh dairy products and signs about how hard it was to get organic dairy now of days, but no non-organic dairy cause that's povo filth.
In Colorado, surrounded by the same poultry farms that gave us the first human transmission case:
Affordable grocers have had no stock for much of the last six months or so. When you can find them in stock, it's about $5/dozen with a pre-bird flu price of around $3/dozen.
Luxury grocers have had no reasonably priced eggs in stock for the same length of time. There are sometimes one or two options for high-end eggs at $10-12/dozen. They also have cartons of liquefied whole eggs and egg whites.
Both ration eggs to 1-2 dozen per customer when they're in stock.
Chicken-focused restaurants are either going out of business, raising prices (a breakfast burrito went from $6 to $9 at my favourite taco truck), or limiting their egg usage with intermittent shortages. Barbecue is another cuisine that has been particularly impacted since those animals are fed chicken shit from the infected poultry farms. I think we've lost three or four local bakeries in the past six months.
What makes an egg “high end”?
They put a little stamp on the egg that says "Eggstra Good"
The conditions the chickens are kept in. Normally you can buy factory farm eggs ($2-3/dozen), cage-free eggs ($3-6/dozen) where the chickens can still be kept indoors, or free-range eggs ($6-10/dozen) where the chickens get to forage in a pasture of some sort. The factory farm conditions are what causes such rapid transmission so the only farms left are the smaller ones.
The yolk is orange and tastes 5x better
And the shells don't crack from sneezin on em
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high end eggs are eggs made specifically in colorado, where its a liberal communist wild wild west for marijuana laws. they inject the chickens with THC and the eggs come out infused with it. the liberals in colorado feed them to their kids and what does it do? makes them lazy hippies who keep voting democrat.
Hell yeah, brother
I get my eggs from a local farmer who charges $3 a dozen
He calls me Skip, but that's a fair trade in my book
Local eggs and a nickname? That's a win-win right there!
These prices are insane. Is it because of the bird flu?
And price gouging
Capital is unionized…porky wants more.
Although part of me was hoping that with the friendly face of the gop in office, porky would be on his best behavior for at least a little bit.
5.40 a dozen, I've been using flax seed and garbanzo liquid eggs in baked goods since you usually can't tell anyway.
Aquafaba my beloved.
Shaws/Albertsons has a dozen for 4.99 in new hampshire
Sorry, but I came into this thread to brag about being 
Recently, I learned to simmer tofu in extremely salty water for 2 minutes to dry it out. Drip dry. Then toss it with cornstarch, oil, and black pepper. I put it in my toaster oven at 425 for 14 minutes on each side. Or just sauté it in a pan for a lil bit. Comes out crispy as hell. Then I toss it in a sauce made from green onion, garlic, ginger, oil, gochujang, xaoxing wine, Chinese black vinegar, Sichuan chili bean paste, and soy sauce. Then I add some cabbage for extra veggie goodness. And toasted sesame oil.
For breakfast, you could do a simpler sauce with just soy, toasted sesame oil, and rice vinegar. Or something western like pesto.
Anyway, tofu slaps, and you can get an organic brick of it with 70g of protein for like 3$
I read that soy gives you increased estrogen so I've been eating it every day for a year and I still haven't grown breasts
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I wish I had that much time in the morning. I'm a rice and kim chi kinda guy since it takes a third of the time.
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Last night I saw 9.99 for the 'we treat the chickens slightly more humanely' version
I have no idea
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Holy shit, I haven't bought eggs in about 6 months and had no idea it got this bad. Local farmers with small operations tend to sell for much cheaper than supermarket prices under normal conditions, it would be interesting to see what they're charging at farmers markets and roadside stands at the moment.
I haven't bought any but I've seen them advertised at $7-8/dozen at various roadside stands
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4.50 USD from the walmart near me checking online, I don't buy eggs so idk if that is out of the ordinary.
Aldi used to have a dozen for .99
The lowest price on the shelf where I work is $5 for a dozen. There are none of those though.
There are $6 and $8 dozens of the store brand. I think they're organic. The highest cost dozen is like $14 I think but they're the super organic bougie ones.
The store has been receiving less then a quarter of the eggs getting ordered too so the shelves get wiped out fast.
American Lite here, I'll check when I go to the store later, I'm curious how it compares to down south
Couldn't tell you, I'm a vegan BTW. However, a large Hass Avacado in my area is $2.50 a piece which is preposterous
I mean it is winter, I don't think they're in season
Saw a coupon for 4.⁹⁹ with super card (not pictured) but most are between 7-10 dollars
Canada, not far from the border
This is in Canadian dollars too. Someone good at the economy please explain
For now it seems like Canadian egg supply hasn't been hit (or hit hard maybe? I'm not too sure) as that was also the price I saw when I went shopping yesterday. From looking up the currency exchange, 4.17 Canuck dollars = 2.90 Yankee dollars.
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$6.59 according to doordash at my store.
Over 9$ a dozen in my part of CA, at the grocer that sells them the cheapest (so these aren't particularly good eggs either). I'm very glad that I don't care for eggs much.
I've seen it fluctuate from 4-6 dollars for a dozen of the factory-farm shit. It's actually cheaper (for now) to go to local health-food store and get something off your local Amish farm or the like. Usually 4-5, or 7 on the super organic specialty stuff.
Kinda wish my sister still had her coop, but a fox got in or something and went DoomGuy on them.
I live in Major Metropolitan City and eggs I’ve seen fully sold out for $7.99. At local subreddits I’m seeing $11.99 and such.
Granted Major Metropolitan City has a problem with price gouging already.
It was 6 dollars a dozen at my local trader joes
I used to buy these at $11 a box. They used to be the best way to ride out the price jumps, but they've been up around 20 and above since summer sometime.
One country
My in-laws said they paid $14 for a dozen last week.
My wife and I have stopped buying eggs at this point though. Between the bird flu ripping through our farms and the subsequent price increase caused by it, we just don’t think it’s worth it.
The store near me was at $9 for their store brand organic free range last week (which were the only ones in stock), but this week they’re at about $5 for the same.
shit I forgot to look yesterday.
a week ago the entire egg area was wiped out. when I walked by yesterday all I noticed was that there were eggs on the shelves again.
the online listing for my local grocer says $5/doz for the junkfed industrial white leghorn style trash eggs. which, goddam.
$6.50 for 12, I live in a MCOL area
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