mschwett
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same here, last dozen at Trader Joe’s was $3.99. surprising.
So how much was the last dozen eggs you bought?
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same here, last dozen at Trader Joe’s was $3.99. surprising.
JRA
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Other than the bird flu epidemic that occurred last year and had a big effect on egg price due to the farmer's need to get rid of that which was the main reason egg prices were high here on the north coast of OR a dozen eggs is still $6 or so. Gas is $4.17 but that always is higher after Memorial Day every year. I am way less concerned about those prices than I am of the results yet to come of fruit and vegetables that are going to be left rotting due to lack of a labor force to harvest them. That is next.........and also my health care costs as a retired person dependent on a Medicare supplement plan that has already been jacked up $20/mo starting 8/1.
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I love Canada. Just had major surgery on my bowel and bladder. Cost to me ZERO out of pocket. I pay with my taxes, which are still lower than those in the states contrary to popular propaganda. We don't need health insurance, we are covered via the government for everything medically besides prescriptions and we have gone back to decent wait times. My condition was discovered in February, and I had my surgery put off until may 29th because I wanted to attend my son's special Olympics bowling tournament. Got back, 2 days later I was in the OR. no years waiting, again like the popular propaganda machines make it seem like.
kojack
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If he does, he doesn't need health insurance payments to get treatment at a doctor without bankrupting his family.
spokewrench
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Today I bought 2 dozen @2.72 a dozen.
I have a relative who produces organic eggs for farmers' markets. Customers would pay high prices for "better" eggs. If only they knew...
By selling a little food, he could dodge standard property tax rates by calling his estate a farm. I'd run it while he and the missus were off at some snob locale like Italy or California. Hens prefer dark laying boxes, where they don't peck or poop. He gave nests plenty of sunlight, losing half his eggs with the survivors covered in yolk and poop. I proved he could get twice as many eggs, all clean, with dark nests. He'd have none of it.
Filthy eggs required washing, which was a shame because it dissolved protection. He'd hold them under hot running water and let them air dry. I told him the USDA said they should be toweled dry immediately. The hot water would heat the air sac, driving some air out. As the egg cooled, there would be a vacuum. If the shell were left wet, water and any remaining bacteria would be drawn in. He refused to dry them. To him, all that mattered was a clean appearance. He had no conscience. Report him? To whom? Because he was under a certain volume, he wasn't subject to regulation.
OTOH, my uncle kept thousands of hens for 50 years or so. Twice a day, his hands collected bushel baskets of eggs. Sometimes I had the privilege of doing that or of grading them in the cellar of his 18th Century house. A truck from the co-op came pretty often to pick up lots of cases of eggs. He was among the most productive Americans, but the economics of farming kept him in poverty. Still, if he'd won a mega lottery, he would have kept farming until the money was gone.
He may have been in his 60s when he began leaving a box of cash on the back porch beside a refrigerator with a paper taped to the front naming his prices for the various boxed eggs inside. The co-op might be able to offer him a break-even price, but he could get a big markup on his porch. Word spread and volume grew. Let the good times roll. His spot audits of eggs and cash always seemed to check out. They were the same as the eggs he sent to supermarkets, but their market value was much higher because customers knew the character of the man selling them.
JRA
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The reason eggs need to be refrigerated here in the US is because the USDA guidlines require that they be "washed". I would assume that the industry isn't doing this to SW's relatives method but in other countries, like Mexico for example, they don't refrigerate them as they don't "wash" them. I would guess that they are hip to the dark box theory as mentioned.
Caveat however is that a huevos rancheros I ate in Cabo Pulmo years ago laid me out for the afternoon with great discomfort.
Farm eggs here are $4/doz btw when they are available but they go faster than I am able to get to them.
Caveat however is that a huevos rancheros I ate in Cabo Pulmo years ago laid me out for the afternoon with great discomfort.
Farm eggs here are $4/doz btw when they are available but they go faster than I am able to get to them.
chunk
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$4.99 / dozen today at Vons, at my local SoCal store. Gas for my genny was $4.69 / gallon. Edison keeps shutting power off due to fire concerns. I had to throw out dairy that had gotten warm in the refrigerator when I was on a quick trip to the coast. GRRRRRRR.
kojack
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Very good.
I know our eggs in the store are not fresh. They are trucked in from god knows where, The eggs I buy from my local producer are laid that day. He only sells so many a day. The quality are night and day difference compared to the store eggs we get here. Where you are, you might have a better supply chain. Here, we don't. half the eggs we buy in the store are freakin rotten. it's gross. just like our meats, and veggies too. Local is way better for all of it. The same farmer that has the eggs also sells lamb. that is top quality stuff while the lamb in our stores is shipped from new zealand. That's as far as you can get from us shipping lane wise. We support local farmers whenever possible.
Curious, where do you live, India?
kojack
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No, Newfoundland Canada. We live on an island. Everything gets trucked in from a ferry in Nova Scotia, our food sits on the dock for days waiting even longer if it's bad weather and the boats don't sail. Such is life. As I said, Local is ALWAYS better for freshness, and not feeding the "Galen Weston trust fund", the smarmy F^*Ker.
Visited Newfoundland in 1972 with my brothers. Visiting again this October as a cruise port; beautiful area (1972 experience.) Remember sailing in to Port aux Basques with colorful houses as the boats went out for the day and eating KFC in St. John's on (as I recall) Signal Hill in 60 mph winds.
kojack
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Awesome. That KFC is still there. it's on Duckworth street at the base of Signal hill. They moved across the street into a new building but the original building is still there.
stompandgo
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I steamed a couple of 2# local Cape lobsters for Father's Day dinner. $7.99/#. We had enough left over for lobster rolls the following evening.
kojack
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Now you're talking. My family has a tourism business in the town where my father's family originally came from. They have lobsters cooked ready to go for their customers, 6.99 a lb cooked delivered to the cottages! Great deal imo. that's canadian dollars too. Once I am fully recovered, we are going down there for a few nights and enjoy some long lost family bonding. I used to love going there as a child, when my grand father had a house there for the weekends.
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