I get that the point is inflation, but why eggs? If they went to $12/dozen, it would cost me like $4 extra dollars per week.

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
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    It depends. Eggs are part of cakes and pancakes, and a very quick to cook healthy thing to eat. Family of 4 now, we go through between 8 eggs on a light week and 32 eggs on a week I make a lot of egg stuff, or if someone is bulking, like today I made shakshuka for supper and a cake, that’s eight eggs in one meal.

    I think they are a commodity and historically a cheap source of animal protein, that’s why they are talked about.

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    Because eggs are seen as a very reasonable weekly purchase that a consumer can see a price delta in over a short period of time.

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    Eggs because:

    Vance gave a quote bashing the price of eggs, but he cited a number much higher than the sign he was standing next to.

    Dems pounced on this, mocking the blatant exaggeration and dismissing any concerns about a cost of living crisis.

    It stuck around because it’s emblematic of the overall situation:

    Repubs don’t give a shit about facts, just vibes, and wanna paint as dark of a picture as possible.

    Dems only care about being correct on paper, and don’t give a shit about listening to the problems of ordinary people or doing anything that could be called “radical”.

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    Zero after I went vegan 3 years ago.

    And honestly, when you know your way around a little and stick mostly to whole foods, it gets dirt cheap if you try. 💚

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    I get that the point is inflation, but why eggs?

    It’s because the current avian flu, chicken and egg farms are having to kill a metric fuck ton of their chickens. 😢 Meanwhile spray tan is already vowing to gut the CDC and leave WHO.

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        You know, if you spent your entire life living underground and never saw the sky, you’d never worry about silly little things like asteroids crashing into the planet and killing everyone.

        It doesn’t mean you’ll survive any better, you just get to die ignorant.

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    4 hours ago

    Eggs still only 3 something where I am. Don’t eat em much but maybe a dozen each month or two.

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      I’m not sure anyone really is blaming trump, but when we ask “what’s he doing about the egg prices”, it’s because he and his supporters blamed Biden for high egg prices and it’s fun to hear them make excuses for how the president doesn’t control egg prices.

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    Eggs are not that expensive in Sweden, but in all honesty I don’t really eat that many eggs in a week. Maybe if we use it as an ingredient, or maybe I’m having a boiled egg as a healthy snack, but I think most weeks it would be 0.