Tracking the price of eggs in the US dictatorship

Quiche, tortilla española, and soufflés.

Oh, and please invite us over. We’re only a drive away!

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Huevos rancheros, or stracciatella Romana or a bit of zabaglione

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Make egg pasta, make the forms you want, air dry them (3-4 hours) then freeze.

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Make a ton of pancakes and/or waffles and freeze a bunch.

Make lotsa crêpes.

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Dinner is served.

It turned out delicious! I used a jar of stewed cherry tomatoes (from the garden!) and a red onion. Otherwise pretty much as written.

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Under $4 a dozen here at Winco Foods but they are only allowing one carton per family today.

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Now that eggs are fancy high cuisine expensive ingredients…

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Excellent! that looks delicious!

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Here is the weekly update. Eggs and petroleum prices dropping. Any ideas why?

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posting this here as well.
thanks, @MerelyGifted !

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ATTU

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Posting here as well, thanks @bluehenbear.

(Stuff I didn’t know before, about the egg industry overall, and its pricing. It’s a relatively longish post over at Pluralistic, I thought, and I found it interesting.)

This is a special subspecies of greedflation called “excuseflation”

Egg prices are at record highs, and we’re told that this is the fault of bird flu. but a closer look demonstrates that eggflation is excuseflation. The egg industry is a vertical stack of monopolies, duopolies, and cartels, controlling everything from the genomes of egg-laying chickens to the raising and processing of chickens, to the distribution and retailing of eggs. These monopolists have conspired in the open to use the excuse of bird flu to restrict production and raise prices, over and over, every time bird flu strikes, posting record profits while poormouthing about their rising costs – costs that don’t actually show up on their balance sheets.

In “Hatching a Conspiracy,” an investigative series for Matt Stoller’s BIG newsletter, antitrust lawyer Basel Musharbash lays out the history, mechanics, and fantastical profits of Big Egg, whose price-fixing and price-gouging are every bit as shameless as their excusemaking over bird flu:

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Costco North Alabama still holding at $8.99/2 doz ($4.50/doz) for either white cage-free or brown organic. Still limit 3.

Aldi Gold Hen white conventional eggs also unchanged in a little over 2 weeks at $5.97/doz, limit 2.

Aldi was sold out of all not-from-concentrate orange juice, though, and just a few cartons of organic still in the coolers today. That is a first since 2020. :thinking:

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The large brown cage free eggs (in store brand) are now sitting at $6.49. Traditional eggs (lg) are now $4.99. This is at Kroger - I forgot to look at the farmer’s market this week.

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Publix in Key Largo up fitty at $7.29/ doz grade A large.
where my street chickens at?

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20 days later: up to $7.29 for normal eggs, but organic down to $6.53!

Supply/demand curves must be all over the place down here.

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But without hen Cells…

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Skipped Costco 2 weeks ago, but went this past Sunday. The 18 packs of brown eggs are up to $8.99 with a limit of 3.

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