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[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?)." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.", ">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.", ">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.", ">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.", ">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.", ">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.", ">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.", ">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.", ">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.", ">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?", ">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.", ">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.", ">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.", ">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?", ">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?", ">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.", ">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.", ">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.", ">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?", ">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?", ">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year", ">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.", ">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.", ">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.", ">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?", ">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?", ">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year", ">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!", ">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.", ">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.", ">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.", ">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?", ">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?", ">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year", ">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!", ">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.", ">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%" ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.", ">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.", ">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.", ">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?", ">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?", ">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year", ">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!", ">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.", ">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%", ">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.", ">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.", ">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.", ">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?", ">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?", ">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year", ">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!", ">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.", ">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%", ">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.", ">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.", ">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.", ">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.", ">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?", ">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?", ">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year", ">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!", ">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.", ">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%", ">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.", ">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.", ">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house." ]

[ "I can't even offer you an egg in these trying times", ">\n\nOh shit that one wasn’t hard boiled. Want me to cook it up for you.", ">\n\nIt’s just a jumping off point!", ">\n\nI get that egg prices are higher due to the millions of chickens that had to be destroyed last year. But what's going on with dairy cattle that would make butter skyrocket?", ">\n\nAccording to the USDA, crop prices are up, labor prices are up, and the global market is producing less milk. Dairies have traditionally made up the difference with technology and scale efficiencies, but those gains are slowing down and natural disasters/climate change are affecting production.\nMargarine is even more expensive. It's mostly vegetable oil, and most of that is sunflower oil. Ukraine produces 31% of the world's sunflower oil -- or did, before the invasion. Producers are having to turn to palm, canola, and other more expensive oils.", ">\n\nHadn't heard this. I really pay attention to what's in my food and I can 100% say palm oil is now in everything unlike before COVID and even a year ago which is unfortunate.", ">\n\nPalm oil is very bad for the environment.", ">\n\nIt's a shame because it is a rather high-yield oil crop that is more efficient in terms of land used compared to other crops, palm oil does have its benefits. \nThe issue is the scale of our agriculture and that we're planting monoculture crops. The habitat destruction is off the chain because of our consumption of palm oil and the air pollution from burning the crops isn't helping either. \nAs it is with most things, the farming itself could be reasonable with some tweaks and have much less impact but that costs money and requires oversight which is not an option when it comes to capitalism (and consumption) that demands larger margins constantly", ">\n\nThe constant push for growth in margins is just insane and unsustainable. We can't grow infinitely.", ">\n\nInflationary money demands it.", ">\n\nCapitalism demands it.", ">\n\nProfits must be maintained.", ">\n\nEggs? More like chicken caviar now.", ">\n\n59.9%??? Much more than that here in Maine. Just this past summer I'd pay $1.99 for basic eggs. Today, I saw the same eggs for $5.49.", ">\n\nThey really shouldn't be selling expired food products like that. I would report them!", ">\n\nThanks for the laugh.", ">\n\nA goddamn loaf of bread was $5 yesterday at the local supermarket chain. The store bran loaf was the only bread under $5. Insane.", ">\n\nDude, a small pack of Kraft singles was $5!!!", ">\n\nEggs last year were about $2.50 a dozen, often times lower when on sale.\nI bought them yesterday for $5.99 a dozen. \nUp over 100%", ">\n\nI accidentally bought $8 eggs at Walmart. I thought my kid brother put the good eggs in my cart and I checked again and that's just what they charged me for store brand.", ">\n\nWait do people think there’s a difference in eggs? Is there a difference and I just never noticed?", ">\n\nIt's not so much the eggs are different but how the chickens are treated.\nSome brands ensure the chickens aren't as mistreated.", ">\n\n5 dollars for a 12 pack at aldis the other day, aldis always had eggs for a buck fifty or so, it was fucking wild to see, and super disheartening, times are rough right now and that was my go to cheap protein.", ">\n\nCostco has 24 eggs for 4.xxx", ">\n\nThree x's makes it look like Costco sells them down to the thousandth of a cent.", ">\n\nSignificant feggures", ">\n\nThat was an eggceptable pun", ">\n\nDon’t egg me on", ">\n\nAw shell, here we go again.", ">\n\nYolk it up all you want, these prices aren’t funny!", ">\n\nThat joke was bad, but omlette you get away with it", ">\n\nI work at a grocery store with a bit cheaper egg prices. The eggs are going out of stock Fast, and I've already had customers scream at me three times this week over the lack of eggs.", ">\n\nI seriously doubt the dairy farmers and egg ranchers are the ones making more profit.", ">\n\nNobody is making more profit in this case. The industry took massive hit and had to cull tens of millions of hens to slow an ongoing epidemic in their flocks.", ">\n\n\nNobody is making more profit\n\nThe $4/dz increase doesn't just disappear. Someone is making more money", ">\n\nPeople buy fewer eggs.", ">\n\nYeah, one problem is when prices go up a little bit some consumers either panic buy and others just refuse to change behavor.\nWhen consumers don't change their behavior when prices go up, companies take that as meaning prices are too low. A good example is potato chips, we can debate whether or not you need eggs and butter, but nobody NEEDS potato chips. Prices go up and people still kept buying them.\nMy source is a grocer I know, so take that with all the salt.", ">\n\nYou're completely correct.\nI haven't bought a bag of cheetos in over 6 months. I check the price every time I go in the store and they've been going down that whole time. Now they're doing \"you can buy them at a nearly normal price if you buy two bags.\"\nLike dude, you tried to charge me $9 for puffed corn meal. I'm not forgetting until you beg me to take the things.", ">\n\nI've been the same way with cereal.", ">\n\n$8 for Cinnamon Toast Crunch?! No way", ">\n\nI always paid more for the “fancy” eggs, but now I’m noticing the previously cheaper option is closing in on the organic/free range prices, and sometimes, the “cheap” eggs are even more expensive! Not sure of the logic there but there you have it.", ">\n\nCheaper probably comes from bulk farms who had to cull a lot. \nMore expensive fancy eggs may have been able to avoid as much culling due to the chickens not being packed together and at huge risk of disease. \nMaybe?", ">\n\nThat's my on going theory.", ">\n\nThe entire grocery bill is up 50%. Shit, total expenses in general are up over 50% from a few years ago and that's even with a reduction in my standard of living to save on costs. The \"cost of living\" increase I got at work wasn't even the rate of inflation. I have a lot of options to move to a new job for more money but I like the job I have now. It kind of sounds like a first world problem when I type it out like that but lately it's starting to feel a bit less than first world around here.", ">\n\nMy company has 50% growth, so clearly the fiscally responsible thing to do was fire 10% of the employees and not do merit raises. I got referred to as a \"rockstar\" a few times so there's that.", ">\n\nBut no pizza party from little Caesar’s? Sounds like you got a raw deal.", ">\n\nI know you're joking but now I'm kinda pissed they didn't give us atleast a personal pan pizza coupon", ">\n\nYes and if you pay really close attention you'll notice things like how bagels used to be packages of 6 and now they're 5 or a super size of ground beef used to be 2.5kg and now it's 1.5kg.. and the price is higher...it's criminal", ">\n\naka shrinkflation", ">\n\nCan of tuna was crazy last week at my store. The steak was cheaper.", ">\n\nI've noticed this. I was looking at ways to save money on protein and looked at the canned Tuna and was shocked. Granted it's been awhile, but who pays these prices.", ">\n\nTunas been expensive for the past year this isn't new. You can usually find good store brand tuna for cheaper.", ">\n\nImagine people's shock if they saw how much these things would cost without government subsidies for the egg and dairy industry", ">\n\nMeanwhile I got Just Egg for like, $3.50 yesterday", ">\n\nHell yeah, I'm about to go to Publix and grab some too lol", ">\n\nHave you guys just tried not eating?!", ">\n\nBasically half of every day now, can't afford to gas the car and eat and handle bills.", ">\n\nI saw 18 eggs at Publix the other day for $9.79. They were store brand. My jaw dropped, I used to like grocery shopping but now we're seriously struggling to make ends meet. I don't know how everyone else is doing it.", ">\n\nStore brand or not, a wave of Avian flu killed millions of hens this year. Gonna affect everywhere where you buy eggs", ">\n\nbiggest issue is once prices up they dont go back down. This is the forever price now.", ">\n\nThat's never been the case for anything. Prices change for a thousand different reasons, but they don't stay the same \"because thats how it was before\"\nNot even Arizona Ice Tea is that way, and they were at 99c for like 30 years", ">\n\nJokes on them I've had the same butter since last year and still got half a tub", ">\n\nHere 18 eggs has went from $2.50 to $7.50.", ">\n\nI realized I've never once looked at the price of a carton of eggs before when buying them.", ">\n\nStupid avian influenza.... Worse than in 2015.", ">\n\nEggs are up because a wave of Avian Flu killed millions of hens this year. Don't be fooled by that one", ">\n\nChicken isn't up 150% though?", ">\n\nMeat chickens are different from the ones that lay eggs.", ">\n\nEggs have quintupled where I live, I don't know how they are coming up with this 60% crap", ">\n\nIn my country (italy - north) a box of 6 eggs in my local weekly street market is around 2.80-3.00€ \nIt used to be 2.10-2.20€", ">\n\nThe silver lining, at least near me, is that eggs from free range, hormone free chickens are the same price as eggs from the Aushwitz factory chickens, so you might as well get the much healthier eggs.", ">\n\nCat litter is the worst. Catsan is freaking £17 per bag now. How is gravel that expensive?", ">\n\nWashington State here. A small package of chicken wings at WinCo yesterday was $14.", ">\n\nIs the spike in egg prices largely a US thing? Here in Canada eggs are like $3.69 at Walmart etc for a dozen I believe... they've jumped up a fair bit but not quite like the crazy prices I see people quote from the US.", ">\n\nHuge culling due to avian flu.", ">\n\n3... 2... 1... \n\"Biden did this\"", ">\n\nWhy is it every time i see \"product x\" is up 50% or whatever, when i go to the store the price has tripled?", ">\n\nAll who have the means to raise chickens themselves, please do. It’s not as difficult as you might think, and they don’t need a ton of attention, like cats or dogs. These poor fellas producing for grocery stores are usually raised in horrendous conditions and live very hormone-filled, short lives. Plus, home grown eggs taste better!", ">\n\nAs long as \"means to raise them\" includes land large enough that the coop is nowhere near your neighbors.\nChickens (hens included) are noisy AF. And no, free eggs once in a while doesn't make up for being rudely awoken at the crack of dawn every morning.", ">\n\nI’ve owned plenty of hens and they’re not very noisy, especially compared to a barking dog for example. Any average sized yard, excluding some homes in big cities, can maintain a proper chicken coop. You don’t have to own 15 at a time, just a few will do the trick too.", ">\n\nMaybe it depends on the breed or mannerisms of the particular hens? My neighbor's were a nightmare. We're both on 2+ acre lots but they would wake me up almost every day, especially during seasons when they were laying more frequently.", ">\n\nYeah I’m not sure, maybe the breed does make a difference. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Also of course the amount. A whole brood vs just a few would be noticeably different. \nAnd maybe since I grew up with them for a portion of my youth, I just got so used to the sound, it’s almost calming for me. Not any louder than a barky dog though lol.", ">\n\nI picked the wrong time to discover a love for egg salad sandwiches.", ">\n\nThat avian flu which killed off a massive portion of egg laying hens is being felt now. Last year saw the rise of chicken wings massively when they had the kill off. Eggs took longer to feel the brunt it seems.\nButter is weird. 2% and skim milk drinkers have plummeted while whole milk has increased(baby formula related?). This means less cream for butter. Demand for butter is also up(Go America?).", ">\n\nMy kiddos and I ate a lot of eggs and potatoes to survive poorer times. I don't know what they expect people to do. Starve? I keep thinking it'll improve at least a little then it gets worse. When will we break, I wonder?", ">\n\nBeans. Chickpeas. Black beans. Pinto beans. They’re super healthy and still super cheap.", ">\n\nThe eggs I buy have tripled, maybe more. So.. 59%??", ">\n\nI notice the vegan milk alternatives are now cheaper than cows milk now too.", ">\n\nAnd yet, food stamp funding got decreased. From $752 with the covid relief to $432 for a family of 4 in my state. It's absurd. I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do.", ">\n\n59%? Since 2022... sure-- since 2021 they're up like 500%", ">\n\nNo, egg prices have not increased five-fold since 2021.", ">\n\nYou could get three dozen for a bit over 3 dollars \nWhere as now I am seeing 1 dozen for over 5. \nThough that's comparing bulk to not. (I can't give a bulk to bulk comparison as I moved across the country and my small town doesn't sell bulk eggs like I could get at the big chains where I am from)", ">\n\nLazy-ass reporting from CBS News. They want to pin the blame squarely on \"inflation,\" which triggers the incurious right to triumphantly whip out their Biden \"I did that!\" stickers.\nWhy are egg prices are so high?\n\nAvian flu has decimated chicken farmers, causing as many as 57 million chickens to be affected.\nEgg consumption has risen 17% between 2012 and 2021, according to a report from the USDA and has even outpaced red meats.\n\nWhy are butter prices to high?\n\nHigher production costs and extreme heat have hurt milk supply, said Tanner Ehmke, lead economist for dairy and specialty crops at CoBank, a national cooperative bank serving industries across rural America.\n\nWhy are food prices in general so high?\n\nYes, inflation plays a role — but so does price-gouging from companies, which continue to see record profits.", ">\n\nI just went to the store and the lowest price they had for eggs there was $7-$8. That’s why I shop at grocery outlet first, literally the only way I can afford groceries.", ">\n\n🎶Grocery Outlet, Bargain Market 🎶", ">\n\nButter has been interesting for us. Our local dairy has a retail store. They don't even have butter. I asked. \"Because everyone is buying whole milk.\" I guess the near complete collapse of the skim and 2% market has put a cap on how much can go into butter. Years ago they had so much extra fat and whey that it gave birth to nacho cheese powder. They were just trying to find uses for it.", ">\n\nA box of eggs for $9 is fucking egregious", ">\n\n“Labor shortages” are direct result of corporate greed. Keep wages down, cry “no labor”, costs go up 1.4%, raise prices 50%.", ">\n\nI don't buy eggs anymore. Their price to nutrition (protein) ratio is trash these days", ">\n\nWhat do you recommend as a good substitute for the price to protein ratio? Beans? Peanut butter?", ">\n\nA serving of oatmeal costs pennies (like $0.08 if you buy in bulk at Costco) and has as much protein as an egg (6 grams). Sure it's not complete protein, but as long as you eat some other stuff throughout the day you'll be fine. A serving of beans also has around 5-7 grams of protein, but prepared (canned) beans cost more than oats. Around $0.29/serving assuming you can find them for $1/can.", ">\n\nI can't eat three servings of oats though, totally can eat 3 eggs.\nFor people who are trying to hit 120g of protein a day, it's getting harder.", ">\n\nr/veganfitness has a ton of ideas for cheap plant-based protein sources. People post 200g a day sometimes. \nSeems excessive to me. I think people are way too preoccupied with protein. No one is dying of protein deficiency. Better to focus on dietary fiber, as most people aren’t even getting half of what they need to fight cardiovascular disease and some cancers. but to each their own.", ">\n\nCost of living riots/protests are incoming if we don’t get this inflation business under wraps.", ">\n\nThere isn't a clear way to do that, it's global.", ">\n\nAs someone who bakes a lot, I've noticed.", ">\n\nKeep increase the cost of food. See how that works out.", ">\n\nWell, how much longer are people goimg to allow shit to get worse before they realize that they have to fix shit themselves?? Any day now right?? You gonna wait until they literally ask you guys to die for their profits before you understand??", ">\n\n59% they were $1.50 and now they are $5.", ">\n\nThe price of organic/free range eggs hasn’t increased. This isn’t inflation, this is shitty capitalism creating unhygienic farms where diseases spread.", ">\n\nThe dirty masses are starting to be priced out of both Bread and Circuses.", ">\n\nIf this is caused by avian flu, why have egg prices increased more than chicken?", ">\n\nThis is BS I pay 600% more, a dozen eggs was like a dollar now it's between $6-7.", ">\n\nChickens are cheap. They eat much of the stuff you compost. Their feed is cheap. They sell a coop at the farm store. And they’re actually cute.", ">\n\nI’m gonna start laying eggs. It’d be much cheaper!", ">\n\nI lay one every month! Ugh.", ">\n\nChocolate would be more but they're adding metals to weigh it down", ">\n\ncrossbranding with some norwegian heavy metal bands has helped as well.", ">\n\nSeems weird to lump in a price increase caused by a temporary external event (deadliest bird flu outbreak in US history) with general overall inflation.", ">\n\nPeople can't absorb the higher prices as well because everything else in the grocery store cost 50 percent more than it did a few years ago.", ">\n\nIs there something wrong with their math? Last Jan a dozen eggs were $2.00 (USD) now they are $5.00 (USD). That is not 59%.", ">\n\nAnd how much was our yearly raise..?", ">\n\nWait… you guys are getting raises?", ">\n\nShit, might actually go vegan this year", ">\n\nBest thing I’ve ever done!", ">\n\nEggs were $2.49 last year. They are $7.99 today. Up over 300%.", ">\n\nFood & energy pushed the inflation rate up from 5.7 to 6.5%", ">\n\nWhat butter? My grocer has been completely out for over a week. The only exception was $11/lb imported from Ireland. Note: I drive past a dairy farm every day, so it’s not like my area doesn’t have the ability to produce butter.", ">\n\nWhen you are shopping eggs, be sure to check the prices on the \"premium\" eggs. Last time I was at Walmart, Egglands Best were the same price as Great Value. I was at a crappy supermarket yesterday where their 18 packs of store brand was $9.50 and their free-range 18 pack was $6.50.", ">\n\nMy milkmans prices went from $3.50/dozen to $7.50/dozen from last week to this week. I canceled my weekly egg order and went to Costco this afternoon. $15.99 for 5 dozen. We use a dozen every other day in my house.", ">\n\ncostco membership pays for itself with the egg prices right now" ]