#cheaper eggs

[bitchesgetriches]

If you're in the ANGER stage of your election grief cycle, I do hope you enjoy this little ditty.

[ir-tg-curvy-mature-feetworship]

I AIN'T SEEN ANY.

[randomtheidiot]

Are the long-promised cheaper eggs in the room with us right now?

[captainxtra]

Yeah.

Orange Palpatine Voters dun effed up…

[littleapocalypsekitten]

An odd thought on eggs today. So, I went to work (mildly sick, but masked) and did my shopping after work (I work in a grocery store). I took a look at the eggs (and snapped photos for my price-record sideblog). So, they really are just through the roof now on pricing. $8.29 for a dozen of the Jumbo White we usually get. My partner prefers the jumbo eggs because he likes big eggs. However, this is the second week in a row I've replenished our egg-supply with those "healthy" cage-free little brown eggs ("Large" but they aren't very) from pasture-raised chickens. They were about $5-something a dozen, just under $6. Not cheap, but not as WTF as regular eggs. (Large regular eggs were over $7). Those used to be the expensive eggs. I was struck with the thought that the current egg crisis is making me (seems to be making a lot of others, too, as the speciality eggs were almost out of stock) just a touch more humane. People are getting those "nice hippie eggs" because they've suddenly become cheaper than the standard eggs. I do not know why they are affected less by the price-issues. I have a few theories. Maybe the pasture-flocks are less affected by bird flu because they aren't cramped in. Maybe it is a greater commitment by the farms that raise them to not price-gouge their customers. You see, I think that H1N1 is only part of the problem. I think that most of it is actually a "let's see what we can get away with" thing in Capitalism, like, "We'll use H1N1 as an excuse to charge extra, like what we did with the Covid-pandemic with supply and demand: We actually DO have enough supply, but we'll do some artificial scarcity to drive up profits." And I think some of the organic farms are just not doing that. It's like they've played the long game and are winning. They always had a locked-in customer base of people who wanted a cleaner conscience about where their food comes from, but now they're getting the rest of us just based on the market. I wonder if the world will take notice. (BTW... Not to sound cruel or anything, but I've always been more interested in being able to eat as a poor person than in the comfort of animals barely smarter than a turnip. My family raised chickens when I was a kid. They ain't smart. Cute, but not smart. I'm also a person who has killed her own food before, so, yeah, there's that). Point is, you're gonna win over people like me on cost-effectiveness more than bleeding heart stuff, but it is happening.

[spidermartini]

If you don't knowTennessee Brando, he has a YouTube channel where he speaks out againt Trumo and all things MAGA.

He wrote this amazing protest song called CHEAPER EGGS.

It is about 2 mins. It is not my style of music, but I have listened to it on repeat because it is genuinely great.

It is well written, succinct, and brings the spirit of the 60s protest to our current national tragedy.

Don't get apathetic, cynical or "over it". There are real problems on the horizon. Stay pissed off, focused and plugged into information.

[adventuresofgrocerygirl]

1 Dozen White Jumbo Eggs (standard raised) for $6.99 store-exclusive sale. There is a sign for organic eggs at $7.29 a Dozen just out of camera-range. Captured on February 3, 2025.

[captainxtra]

Oh hey, Tariffs are actually bad!

If only folks who voted for Orange Palpatine bothered to listen…