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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 .
Brainster said:
How about in almost every baked product you have ever eaten?
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I don't know, I guess I shall have to eat one of everything again, and see if I can taste any eggs within. I'll get back to you, this may take a while. A long, delicious while.
 
Dead chickens --> fewer eggs, obviously.
Dead chickens --> more chickens for the grocery stores.

Does anybody know about the price of milk and the price of beef?!
 
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Edit: Nevermind, a quick Google search has shown me that I have no idea how either egg or chicken farming works.
 
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My fortnightly delivery of a dozen free-range eggs have just been delivered to my doorstep, from a local farm, very fresh, even get an occasional double yolk. And they are all different colours. The farmer even delivered on Christmas day! As he said the chickens don't stop for Christmas day. £10.96 a month.
 
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Darat said:
My fortnightly delivery of a dozen free-range eggs have just been delivered to my doorstep, from a local farm, very fresh, even get an occasional double yolk. And they are all different colours. The farmer even delivered on Christmas day! As he said the chickens don't stop for Christmas day. £10.96 a month.
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Its crazy how much people are paying for eggs...
I'm lucky, I don't pay anything, just wander out to the chook run and collect the eggs lol
 
I don't pay anything for eggs - but only because we don't have eggs in the house.

I do consume eggs outside the house, primarily as an ingredient in cakes. It's been a long time since I had an actual egg.
 
The Don said:
I don't pay anything for eggs - but only because we don't have eggs in the house.

I do consume eggs outside the house
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I was momentarily enchanted with a vision of you living under some kind of religious prohibition about bringing eggs indoors, so that you perch upon your roof each time you wish to eat an egg.
 
Here's a pretty thorough explanation as to why "Why Canada has avoided egg shortages, major price spikes seen in U.S."

globalnews.ca

Why Canada has avoided egg shortages, major price spikes seen in U.S. - National | Globalnews.ca

While Canadians have seen a significant increase in the price of eggs, it's a fraction of the spiralling costs recorded in other countries.
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At least part of the reason is Supply Management vs Laissez Faire Capitalism. This is an issue that always came up (or did prior Trump) in trade negations between the US and Canada.


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Gord_in_Toronto said:
Here's a pretty thorough explanation as to why "Why Canada has avoided egg shortages, major price spikes seen in U.S."

globalnews.ca

Why Canada has avoided egg shortages, major price spikes seen in U.S. - National | Globalnews.ca

While Canadians have seen a significant increase in the price of eggs, it's a fraction of the spiralling costs recorded in other countries.
globalnews.ca globalnews.ca

At least part of the reason is Supply Management vs Laissez Faire Capitalism. This is an issue that always came up (or did prior Trump) in trade negations between the US and Canada.


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Communism!!!

The egg situation in the US is a perfect illustration that the market is far more efficient than Supply Management. US consumers are free to decide whether to use 90% of their disposable income to buy a dozen eggs whilst Canadians are suffering under the yolk (sic) of having cheap eggs forced upon them.
 
Brainster said:
How about in almost every baked product you have ever eaten?
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No, that's not true. You don't use eggs when baking bread. (Usually) I worked in a friend's bakery. We went through a lot of eggs. Still, it wasn't an ingredient in 90 percent of what we made. Cakes yes, cookies yes, certain pastries yes. It's very common ingredient when making fillings and frostings. Bread on the other hand, usually no. Basic bread is a mixture of flour, salt yeast and water. And then you expand from that. Sugar, milk, cream, butter, maybe vegetable oil of some kind. Croissants and puffed pastries use a lot of butter.
 
acbytesla said:
No, that's not true. You don't use eggs when baking bread. (Usually) I worked in a friend's bakery. We went through a lot of eggs. Still, it wasn't an ingredient in 90 percent of what we made. Cakes yes, cookies yes, certain pastries yes. It's very common ingredient when making fillings and frostings. Bread on the other hand, usually no. Basic bread is a mixture of flour, salt yeast and water. And then you expand from that. Sugar, milk, cream, butter, maybe vegetable oil of some kind. Croissants and puffed pastries use a lot of butter.
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It’s probably also worth mentioning that eggs mostly serve as binders in baking, and there are lots of other binders to choose from, which is why eggless versions of just about every baked good under the sun are available.

If egg prices were to remain high, I’d expect them to be subbed out from at least some commercial baked goods, and I’d also expect that most people wouldn’t notice.
 
I was terribly upset when I heard about egg shortages but then one of my many butlers relayed the news that its only chicken eggs that are running short, Faberge eggs are still abundant. I'm using them to cobble a garden path on one of my estates.
 
mumblethrax said:
It’s probably also worth mentioning that eggs mostly serve as binders in baking, and there are lots of other binders to choose from, which is why eggless versions of just about every baked good under the sun are available.

If egg prices were to remain high, I’d expect them to be subbed out from at least some commercial baked goods, and I’d also expect that most people wouldn’t notice.
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It's absolutely ridiculous that egg prices are this high. And even if the FDA ordered the destruction of 100 million chickens because of bird flu, (not saying he did, that wouldn't explain it. We kill probably 50 million chickens daily for chicken meat. And a chickens start laying eggs from 4 to 8 months of age. Depends on the breed. At most, we're talking about a few months disruption of the supply of eggs. Chickens are prolific at reproducing. Something else is going on.
 
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