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Eggs

How much will the price of eggs drop by tomorrow now that Trump is president?

  • by 50 percent

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • by 90 percent

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • by 99 percent

    Votes: 1 5.9%

  • by 99.99 percent

    Votes: 3 17.6%

  • Egg prices on Planet X are too scrambled to tell

    Votes: 13 76.5%
  • Total voters
    17
  • Poll closed .
mumblethrax said:
Well, as long as you're going into it with an open mind.
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As open as I can be. I have a friend that is vegan. She has cooked for me many times. I would never tell her, but virtually everything she has ever made is a poor imitation of food.
 
Resume said:
Marianos, a fancy Kroger, Jewel Foods, an Albertson's subsidiary, Woodman's, a Wisconsin chain that sometimes offers whole striploin for $5.99 a pound. Almost all these stores offer standing ribroasts for the holidays at $5.99 to $6.99 a pound. When I'm up north, I go to Henson's market, a sort of Jack Link's outlet (In addition to other things) that sometimes offers tenderloin for $12.99 a pound as, does my local Aldi
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Thanks, that's pretty good. This made me do a spot check at the local Safeway which is were I usually shop. The ad price on a USDA choice steak is $7.99. https://www.freshlando.com/us/weekl...KP-ZmR-lR0WaOQDHKnHKvMlchRAhGVZ4aAkcdEALw_wcB

A T-bone and Porterhouse is on sale for $10.99 a pound. https://www.freshlando.com/us/weekly-ad/publix-weekly-ad-29-01-2025-F14334173
Those are sale price at a major supermarket.

Grocery prices have gone up a lot. Which I'm convinced is why the Dems lost. It's not just the price of eggs. But that is symbolic. For decades you could buy a dozen eggs for $1.50 to $3.00. I sometimes bought the ten dozen pack and spend may $12 to $15. Eggs were cheap.
 
Resume said:
I'm not calling you on this specifically but making sort of a general observation. To Eraserhead Jesse Watters' horror and condemnation, I do a lot of grocery shopping with (and without) my wife, and though I've felt inflation in many areas, beef is not one of them. Now maybe it's because I limit my beef intake to once a month, but shopping sales, I'm paying only about one dollar per pound more for good steak cuts than I had ten years ago. I live two suburbs northwest of Chicago, so I have a nice choice of stores. But even up at the lake house where I have maybe one and a half choices, I can still find choice ribeyes for $5.99 a pound on sale.

Yeah, yeah I know, good for me, but the only time I spending $16+ a pound is for prime when it's on sale at Costco or the like. That compared to $32+ a pound for prime loin primals at my butcher. There was a magawhiner around hereabouts that complained about Bidenflation and grocery store prices, but some of them he quoted had to be bull ◊◊◊◊. I could only assume he shopped exclusively at the Food & Stuff up his local holler.

Again, not calling you out, just relating my experience.
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inflation on beef hasn’t been nearly as bad as chicken. last time i went shopping chicken was more than beef per pound.
 
dirtywick said:
inflation on beef hasn’t been nearly as bad as chicken. last time i went shopping chicken was more than beef per pound.
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That must be some kind of anomaly. Same Safeway ad in Washington has boneless breasts for $2.99 a lb and also pork loin chops for $2.99. This is a 27% the cost of a T-Bone at the same store. So I tend to buy pork and chicken. Beef is a splurge for me.
 
i was thinking more like a pound of ground beef vs a pound of chicken breast.
 
Back on topic, the highest I've paid for eggs was $3.49 a dozen two weeks ago. Now they were just regular ole large eggs, not free range or anything. The most my wife ever paid was $4.69, and she nearly had a stroke. Due to health concerns, I can a have two to four eggs a week, my wife as many as she likes, but we generally go through a dozen eggs ever two weeks. There is absolutely nothing Donnie Diapers can do about egg prices save writing another one of his stupid executive orders proclaiming eggs to be a penny a dozen and he will enforce this by threatening to jail any grocery that deigns to defy his edict.
 
As usual, the GQP has used something thats a worldwide issue to be a 'Biden dun it' line to their low education voter base...
Or was it his fault that eggs are in short supply (and more expensive) in Australia as well...
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dirtywick said:
inflation on beef hasn’t been nearly as bad as chicken. last time i went shopping chicken was more than beef per pound.
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A couple of stores near me discount chicken pieces as they get close to sell by date, which isn't as iffy as it seems. They've always passed the sniff test, but I've had to return "fresh" chicken that upon opening, gave me the heaves. Normally, boneless skinless chicken breasts are $1.99 to $2.99 per pound in sale.
 
dirtywick said:
i was thinking more like a pound of ground beef vs a pound of chicken breast.
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Same Safeway. $7.49 for 80% lean ground beef. They are also selling sirloin ground beef $8.49 a pound. Now to be fully forthcoming, the big rise in beef prices is not a recent phenomenon. Probably 5 to 6 years ago beef prices almost doubled in price. I use to be huge beef consumer. Now, maybe once every few months I'll buy a steak. And when I want burgers I'll grind maybe sirloin along with pork. It tastes almost exactly like any burger.
 
acbytesla said:
Same Safeway. $7.49 for 80% lean ground beef. They are also selling sirloin ground beef $8.49 a pound. Now to be fully forthcoming, the big rise in beef prices is not a recent phenomenon. Probably 5 to 6 years ago beef prices almost doubled in price. I use to be huge beef consumer. Now, maybe once every few months I'll buy a steak. And when I want burgers I'll grind maybe sirloin along with pork. It tastes almost exactly like any burger.
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Damn. I don't want to dox you but are you near a major metropolitan area?
 
acbytesla said:
As open as I can be. I have a friend that is vegan. She has cooked for me many times. I would never tell her, but virtually everything she has ever made is a poor imitation of food.
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If you're declaring vegan dishes (even badly prepared vegan dishes) to be imitation food, I'm going to gently suggest that you are not, in fact, being as open-minded as you can be.

In any case, I'm just pointing out that eggs are replaceable, in just about every dish, because they are. Whether you're happy with the results is neither here nor there.
 
Resume said:
A couple of stores near me discount chicken pieces as they get close to sell by date, which isn't as iffy as it seems. They've always passed the sniff test, but I've had to return "fresh" chicken that upon opening, gave me the heaves. Normally, boneless skinless chicken breasts are $1.99 to $2.99 per pound in sale.
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I can still buy chicken breasts for under $3 a pound. Which is pretty damn close to the price I've been paying for them for for years but it is damn hard to get a dozen eggs for $5.00 which is more than double what I've paid for years.
 
well you can just google the prices of stuff and see they're comparable. unless you're comparing frozen tyson crap vs a pound of fresh beef from the meat section, idk what you guys got going on there at safeway or why the prices are so wildly different
 
Resume said:
Damn. I don't want to dox you but are you near a major metropolitan area?
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10 miles away from Longview, Kelso on Interstate 5. Combined population about 50,000. There are 3 Safeway supermarkets, a Fred Meyer, 1 Winco, 2 Walmart superstores and a Grocery outlet Bargain market. It's a 30 milie drive to the new Costco. About 40 miles to Vancouver Washington which is part of the Portland, Oregon metro market. I tend to shop at one of the Safeways, the WINCO or the Grocery Outlet.
 
acbytesla said:
As open as I can be. I have a friend that is vegan. She has cooked for me many times. I would never tell her, but virtually everything she has ever made is a poor imitation of food.
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Man, why do you have to be so rude about it?

I sometimes see people talking about how "vegans always push their agenda" etc... but is there anything any vegan can say without it being thrown back in their face?
 
acbytesla said:
Is it ill advised?

How much does the country spend subsidizing eggs? We subsidize lots of things. Like milk, corn and soybean production. I think the corn subsidies are far worse for the economy and the environment. Yet Ethanol is by far the most subsidized fuel in the US and it doesn'tmake fuel cheaper for consumers. I bet whatever we pay to subsidize corn is many magnitudes greater than what we pay or even could pay to subsidize eggs.

I'm not saying you're not right. Perhaps it is ill advised. I need to look at this more closely. But replacing eggs in food is a major step. I eat them almost every day. I go through at least two dozen a week. But if chickens are a problem, beef is not the answer. It too has skyrocketed in price. Are you saying I have to become a vegan? You might as well shoot me now.
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There's a lot of unnecessary dairy and eggs especially in processed food. In some cases plant based alternatives can be easily substituted (there's a whole set of accidentally vegan products out there) in other cases the ingredients are there because lobbyists insist they are.

You don't have to go fully vegan to make a big difference. 7 million people going plant based one day a week is the same as one million becoming vegan.

That said becoming vegan is pretty easy and you don't miss out on much (if anything at all).
 
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