Eggs are crazy-too expensive !!!

[Mikey]

Wiki say's …

Huevo is the Spanish-language translation of the word "egg", but can also be used as a Spanish slang term for "testicle".

Kinda shying away from eating anything named huevo …

[Hector]

I had a brekkie burrito (baked) for lunch yesterday: scrambled egg / crispy tots / roasted poblanos & onion / shredded cheddar / chipotle maple aioli. It was pretty good, but chorizo is optional and I forgot to ask her to add it. Huge mistake. Crushing defeat. No amount of hot sauce could make up for the loss of chorizo, and I feel guilty for wasting the precious eggs in that manner.

Your breaking burrito sounds amazing!

Chorizo is one of the gods greatest creations…

Beef chorizo is good, but pork chorizo is DA bomb!

[Hector]

Orale!! I had chilaquiles a la puro Mexican style. Delicioso!.

Doble órale!!

[Duncan]

I had a brekkie burrito (baked) for lunch yesterday: scrambled egg / crispy tots / roasted poblanos & onion / shredded cheddar / chipotle maple aioli. It was pretty good, but chorizo is optional and I forgot to ask her to add it. Huge mistake. Crushing defeat. No amount of hot sauce could make up for the loss of chorizo, and I feel guilty for wasting the precious eggs in that manner.

[SeattleEd]

I just had huevos con chorizo today, man, delicious!

Orale!! I had chilaquiles a la puro Mexican style. Delicioso!.

[Hector]

I just had huevos con chorizo today, man, delicious!

[Mikey]

^--- will even bump-up my usual delivery-tip amount

[Mikey]

My local Chinese restaurant still has their egg-foo-young at the same price it's always been.

Finally, somebody not trying to gouge me.

Will be ordering 2 --- with extra gravy

[Jorge Galvan]

Went to ALDI's today, egg's were $4.89 the cheapest brand. Needless to say I didn't get any.

Bread was $1.89 and $1.99 respectively Got that instead.

[J.B.]

and give extra's to the local women's shelter.

Mad props.

[monitor_ep]

It has been so long since I checked on prices so today while at the grocery store I checked; $4 a dozen for regular eggs.

I refused to even look at "organic" anything. You have no idea if what they say is true so why spend that insane amount. I supple eggs for the two of us, parents, brothers house and give extra's to the local women's shelter. Same goes for our garden.

[SeattleEd]

Looks like more shenanigans with the top egg producing farmers, for example Cal-Maine Foods that holds 80% of the egg industry, "reported quarterly sales up 110% and gross profits up more than 600% over the same quarter in the prior fiscal year".

Here is point from a Senator in Rhode Island:
"Many in the egg industry have pointed to last year’s avian flu outbreak as the reason behind these substantial price increases. However, as early as May 2022 the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Economic Research Service found that “the price increase” observed in the egg sector was “much larger than the decreases in production” caused by the avian flu. Indeed, while prices are up 138%, the American Egg Board recently reported that U.S. egg producer flocks are only 6% below normal levels. USDA also observed little effort among the largest egg producers to increase production to moderate record prices. It is also worth noting that small producers, which have faced many of the same market challenges as the biggest producers, have managed to keep prices under control."

Price gouging? I would say yes. Not sure why the FTC is dragging their feet on investigating.

I walked across the street from my work to a Portland based Bakery here in Seattle, "Essential Foods" and they sell eggs from local egg producers....$8 for a dozen! Grant it these are from free range organic feed based non-hormone chicken farmers so you pay more for the indie healthy eggs.
All I'm seeing is a reason for markets and farmers to make a profit at the cost of Media reporting and causing panic in the public.

Just humans being humans at the expense of other humans.

[Scott777]

many farmers are saying it's the feed they are using, and switching to something more local has improved the yield of eggs.

[Duncan]

Here's a quick summary of the causes.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/america-s-egg-shortage-is-about-to-get-a-whole-lot-worse/ar-AA16Ufjc?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=b13ef6cf96444b209f13e1a8000f81df

[Jorge Galvan]

idk what it is in your area, but here, the price of chicken has gone up 50%. A bag of chicken was $5.99 and now it's $8.99 for the same bag, just a year later.

Funny enough I went to pick up up a roasted chicken last month at Walmart for $4.99

A few weeks ago I picked one up for $6.59. A buck/fifftynine cents more. So I wasn't beat up too bad.