I’m seeing some people say crazy numbers on Twitter.

$6.59 according to doordash at my store.

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Shaws/Albertsons has a dozen for 4.99 in new hampshire

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had to go to three stores before we found one with eggs

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Capitalism is when no eggs

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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.

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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.

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Aldi used to have a dozen for .99

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It wasn’t long ago that Aldi had a dozen eggs for 46¢ in my area

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4 cents an egg is wild. For 10 years I’ve been used to a dozen cage-free eggs costing around 20 cents an egg.

46 cents a dozen, that’s like being able to get all your daily calories from eggs for $1.20, equivalent to 10 minutes of the federal minimum wage. Literally less expensive than the time it takes to buy them or the gas it takes to get to the store. Extremely rational and beneficial and wholesome industry.

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It costs 1.99 euros and 3.39 euros for animal-friendly for a carton of 10 eggs

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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.

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What makes an egg “high end”?

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They put a little stamp on the egg that says “Eggstra Good”

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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.

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The yolk is orange and tastes 5x better

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And the shells don’t crack from sneezin on em

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tbh the biggest difference is the freshness. Getting them from a farmer’s market or your neighbor is a huge difference, plus your neighbor is nicer to their chickens than the poultry plant

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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.

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Hell yeah, brother

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