Maybe don’t waste your money on organic food.
Them eggs is spensive cuz they real good ones. I gottem and gonna eatum with my limited edition cheese and laugh at the poors!
Just 2 more payments, gentlemen, and this beautiful 12-slot luxury egg carton is all mine!
I have chickens. People refuse to pay $5 a dozen for our pasture eggs. Even though that’s cheaper than any other eggs in the area. I’m also sitting on a dozen goose eggs. A goose egg is three times the size of a chicken egg. They want to pay less than three times the cost of a chicken egg, even though geese only lay during the spring and only lay every other day.
Here in southern california the only eggs I have even seen on shelves are my usual small farmers market eggs, which are now the same price or cheaper than the grocery store. It has been astounding me that the better and now cheaper option is the one not sold out. Humans really are just psychology multiplied.
This is because people assume that you should do it out of the goodness of your heart. Since you’re not mass producing.
Which is absurd.
If anything they should be willing to pay you a premium for a high quality product produced in far better conditions.
no but see it’s about hierarchy. the factory farm is bigger than me, and so I must serve it and obey on its terms. the local farm is just a person. I bet I could take them in a fight. therefore they should serve me and all interactions should be on my terms.
Keep sitting on those goose eggs, when they hatch and you attack with your goose army they’ll all be sorry.
It takes a full year to hatch them and then wait for them to become soldiers since they are only aggressive in the spring. Ain’tnobodygottimeforthat-meme.gif
If me neighbor had eggs like that I would buy it as often as they would let me.
I wish I knew how to find farmers selling eggs like you. $5 for a dozen is a steal. Do you wash them? Or go European style?
They want to pay less than three times the cost of a chicken egg, even though geese only lay during the spring and only lay every other day.
That’s not how markets work though…
If they wanted to go buy a commercial goose egg that’s how it works. Geese eggs are rare. They take a lot of investment in time to produce. If you can’t recoup the costs then you can’t sell as selling requires time and time is money if you believe that labor should be compensated.
No, that’s not how it works. You’ve provided a chart that shows average prices for a specific point in time. That’s it. They are constantly fluctuating, and the price is based on supply and demand.
You don’t get to charge 3x for an egg just because it’s 3x the size. I mean, you can try, but people will not buy it unless that’s the equilibrium price. There is no rule stating that price must increase by the same amount as the size of the thing. That’s silly.
A thing is worth what people are willing to pay for it. Goose eggs simply aren’t as popular as chicken eggs, therefore the demand is lower. Assuming supply remains stable, that means price goes down.
How many years have you worked in the egg business?
Buddy, this is econ 100. This applies to nearly every business.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supply_and_demand
If you look at the chart there, the equilibrium price is where the supply line and the demand line cross. Assuming supply remains the same, if demand decreases, the equilibrium price will decrease.
If supply increases, and demand decreases, price goes way down.
Wiki probably explains it better.
Do the eggs just go to waste then or do you need to eat a lot of extra eggs if you can’t sell them for $5/dozen?
Wouldn’t it make sense to lower the price to what people will pay even if it doesn’t cover the cost of the chickens, but at least reduce the cost of the chickens? If it’s not your main source of income and you have the chickens either way wouldn’t some money be better than no money?
Eggs go to waste. There is no way we can eat them as fast as they come. It’s not really even a factor of price. We could list them as free and even though the stores are sold out we’d still not get rid of them. Selling eggs is similar to the worst parts of Facebook marketplace. People say they will come and don’t. They show up and the eggs aren’t good enough because you don’t feed them the same exact feed they would if they had chickens. They can only buy if there are at least five dozen available. The eggs aren’t white, or blue, or green, or whatever their kink is.
Egg buyers are the most picky people on earth. We did get lucky last year with one couple that would always take whatever we had. But we don’t actually set a price. We live in poverty. We let anyone that shows up pay whatever they want. These people covered our feed costs but that was about it.
Just poke tiny holes in them, blow out the contents and return them for a refund.
Just syphon other people’s eggs contents using a long straw whenever they are distracted.
LPT: it’s almost springtime and you can find free eggs in the tree then.
Does the White House still do the egg roll? It sounds Chinese? But the Russians have those nested egg doll things. Which will Trump embrace?
Its also the time of year to start thinking about buying chicks. Its a commitment and I recommend doing your research but if you can properly care for egg laying hens then I highly recommend you consider building the required infrastructure and having hens. There is an initial investment, but now it costs me about $3 to produce a dozen pasture raised eggs.
Unless you are in the U.S. and that is likely against the migratory bird act of 1918.
Who’s going to stop me. The government agency that was just decimated. I stopped paying taxes too.
Subscription payment on eggs is wild! lol
Even worse, it’s buy now pay later.
Just watched a video a month ago about how Gen Z is doomed to own nothing when we die, and how so many of us are in crazy debt already because of buy now pay later services. So thankful me and my sister are borderline allergic to spending money and that I just hate shopping for clothes because that shit was depressing to hear.
Apparently my gen fell into this debt whole because we think they’re not the “scary & bad” loans that our 2008 financial crisis parents had, these are “different” somehow 😬
4 × 2.97 < 11.89.
Don’t worry, that’s just the rate if you have perfect credit (*starting at). The people that actually need such a service would likely be paying $3.50 per payment.
Yup. It’s just another predatory service.
Bringing up the chicken shit of people amongst an avian fowl epidemic… sounds red enough. OP never has cared about the country so much as the problem of the day to push the people apart.
But considering OP I’m not surprised this whole post isn’t dedicated to making Biden look bad. Even after the election. Their point is for you to hate everyone regardless…
Given your post history, I feel bad for this woman.
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Yea you’re all good. You’re doing the Lord’s work pushing BS about eggs of all things.
Eggs are expensive because of reasons but this politicalization is fine and your post is completely neutral… by all means post pics of people while ruining discourse.
It’s a memes channel. It’s not that serious.
Random tip: Kala Namak is a condiment which tastes a lot like egg yolk. If you sprinkle it onto some cooked white beans, that’s kind of like scrambled eggs (well, it is different, but also good and might satiate a craving).
Basically, Kala Namak is salt+sulphur. Egg yolk also contains sulphur, and well, sulphur is one of the minerals we should be eating anyways.
Tofu scramble is another good alternative, albeit also not exactly the same. This recipe looks like a decent starting point:
https://www.noracooks.com/tofu-scramble/#wprm-recipe-container-4234
I also really like adding vegetables to my scramble, that’ll make it even less like eggs though.
This is some dystopian shit right here
Chaat masala is delicious and this is one of the main ingredients, along with green mango powder (amchoor). The smell is a bit surprising at first but it’s good.
