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i fully understand, but c'mon man

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many of us go grocery shopping.

male or female.

in our house the wife and i share that chore rather equally

well, went to walmart this morning, in search a a few things.

got to the reefer section for eggs...

HO-LEE CHRIST....

$3.97 per dozen for white eggs.

the local "chain grocer"....$4.35

smaller grocer....$4.45


pork loin on sale at "chain grocer", $2.49 a pound.

looks like i can get a few pounds of that for breakfast instead......well at least for 2 seperate dinners.

i full understand that the bird flu has wiped out the egg productions across the country

but c'mon man...(as Brandon says every so often)

soon will i have to choose from heating my house, or having an egg mcmuffin sandwich tomorrow..???


how costly is it to spray the farms with anti-viral(??) meds to protect the chickens?

is it even safe to do that?

i dunno...i just never thought i'd see the day, eggs cost more than gasoline, or natural gas to heat my house.
 
i'm just glad that Mc Donalds did not jack up the prices of the sausage/egg/cheese mc muffins. to "market pricing for the day."

what that means here for instance, say you want a lobster...the fish stores and restaurants sell that lobster for the going prices at the fish markets for THAT day.

in another thread, i mentioned about my doctor appointment...well he sent me for xrays.

after all was done, i headed to mc donalds up the street from the xray place.

now, to be fair, it was nearing 10:30 AM, and at 10:30 they stop selling breakfast, and start serving lunch.

i got 2 egg mcmuffins as mentioned above, for $2.00 each, and a medium coffee

now, the eggs were scrambled not fried like they should be, so maybe they had to dump them off, to be rid of them.

i dunno, its my favorite breakfast sammich

had they been sold for "market pricing for the day", i wonder if they would have cost me more like $5.00 each...??
 
Old_Me said:
many of us go grocery shopping.

male or female.

in our house the wife and i share that chore rather equally

well, went to walmart this morning, in search a a few things.

got to the reefer section for eggs...

HO-LEE CHRIST....

$3.97 per dozen for white eggs.

the local "chain grocer"....$4.35

smaller grocer....$4.45


pork loin on sale at "chain grocer", $2.49 a pound.

looks like i can get a few pounds of that for breakfast instead......well at least for 2 seperate dinners.

i full understand that the bird flu has wiped out the egg productions across the country

but c'mon man...(as Brandon says every so often)

soon will i have to choose from heating my house, or having an egg mcmuffin sandwich tomorrow..???


how costly is it to spray the farms with anti-viral(??) meds to protect the chickens?

is it even safe to do that?

i dunno...i just never thought i'd see the day, eggs cost more than gasoline, or natural gas to heat my house.
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Big ice storm headed this way. $11 2 gallon gas cans are now $32 at Lowes. I cracked my Lowes card in half and gave it to the CS guy. C ya
 
Old_Me said:
i'm just glad that Mc Donalds did not jack up the prices of the sausage/egg/cheese mc muffins. to "market pricing for the day."

what that means here for instance, say you want a lobster...the fish stores and restaurants sell that lobster for the going prices at the fish markets for THAT day.

in another thread, i mentioned about my doctor appointment...well he sent me for xrays.

after all was done, i headed to mc donalds up the street from the xray place.

now, to be fair, it was nearing 10:30 AM, and at 10:30 they stop selling breakfast, and start serving lunch.

i got 2 egg mcmuffins as mentioned above, for $2.00 each, and a medium coffee

now, the eggs were scrambled not fried like they should be, so maybe they had to dump them off, to be rid of them.

i dunno, its my favorite breakfast sammich

had they been sold for "market pricing for the day", i wonder if they would have cost me more like $5.00 each...??
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I think I paid just under $16 for 5 dozen a couple weeks ago at Costco. Yeah, the bird flu has wrecked the poultry farms in the United States and it's going to take time for those prices to stabilize, but some of that price hike is because retailers know they can do it. The free market in action, it doesn't matter who's in charge. Unfortunately the only way prices drop in a meaningful way is a recession, and that's not the remedy anyone should want.
 
One of my customer's clients is a large egg farm. They had to kill 270,000 birds in one shot last year because a bird was found in that barn with bird flu. I don't think it was even a chicken (large factory farms are easy for wild birds to get in).

The way the government kills these birds is pretty bizarre, and not a painless experience for the animals.
 
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