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submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by M137 to c/[email protected]
 

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?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Here in Russia we have big shortage of eggs. They are insanely expensive. 100 roubles for 10! Entire 1 dollar!

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[–] FlyingSquid 42 points 1 day ago (27 children)

Excuse me, but Donald Trump never promised to make äggs cheaper for Americans.

Just eggs.

How is that going anyway?

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[–] Theonetheycall1845 2 points 22 hours ago (8 children)

Yea but we're talking American eggs here. They just cost more for some reason that we can't seem to find out why.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Buying eggs 15 at the times? Funny indeed.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago (14 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 74 points 2 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] SwordInStone 35 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Boi, do I have an abomination for you

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

They get even cheaper than this as well - this is on sale at Hemköp for the non-organic brand. If you look at Lidl for the same category, the regular price is approximately the same. To get lower you'd have to buy the 24-pack. If you get it on sale, then you're looking at basically the best price imaginable, probably somewhere below 2 SEK/egg.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

non-organic brand

Mineral eggs, straight from caves.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago

Delicious! Though not quite as good as the meteorite eggs, straight from space.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

This is interesting to see as someone who hasn't been able to afford to travel. One of the cool things since learning German that I have noticed is that I can read a lot of Swedish and Dutch. Those languages kind of look like a combination of English and German with alternative spelling to me now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

This is how knowing Russian/Ukrainian/Belarusian feels.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah I would say there's a spectrum of intelligibility of English - Dutch - Swedish - German.

[–] sprack 2 points 1 day ago

I noticed you excluded Danish.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 days ago (4 children)

All I see is a pile of Äggs. Eggs on the other hand, those fuckers are expensive.

:P

[–] M137 25 points 2 days ago (4 children)

The two dots above the A means they're fancy!

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If there's anything I miss about reddit it's that if you were looking for a place to post something like this you could just go to r/eggs or r/eggprices and it would typically work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And be the only one to post in it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Such is niche a subreddit's fate.

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[–] hesusingthespiritbomb 14 points 1 day ago

I do feel the need to point out that the people posting the astronomical egg prices tend to live in the most expensive areas of the country, and don't do themselves any favors in terms of their choice of local grocery store.

Eggs are $4 for 12 at Aldi. While that's a little more than twice what they usually are, it isn't really the biggest deal in the grand scheme of things for an individual consumer.

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