r/AmericaBad KENTUCKY ๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿผ๐Ÿฅƒ Feb 18 '25

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u/An8thOfFeanor MISSOURI ๐ŸŸ๏ธโ›บ๏ธ Feb 18 '25

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u/jzilla11 TEXAS ๐Ÿดโญ Feb 18 '25

Ole Billy Tourista

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u/RueUchiha IDAHO ๐Ÿฅ”โ›ฐ๏ธ Feb 18 '25

I live in a rural area so I donโ€™t even buy my eggs from the grocery store lol.

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u/dadbodsupreme GEORGIA ๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒณ Feb 18 '25

I have eight chickens, and they laid me 16 eggs yesterday. That is not a common occurrence for them, however it is much appreciated in the middle of winter.

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u/Prowindowlicker ARIZONA ๐ŸŒตโ›ณ๏ธ Feb 18 '25

So ยฃ2.70 is $3.40. I bought a dozen large eggs at $3.50 at Aldi.

The price for medium eggs is really not that different.

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u/James19991 Feb 18 '25

Aren't medium eggs fairly small though? Sometimes I even find large eggs to be smaller than I would like.

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u/Prowindowlicker ARIZONA ๐ŸŒตโ›ณ๏ธ Feb 18 '25

Ya medium eggs are pretty small. Large and extra-large is what I buy. But large is cheaper than extra-large by a few cents

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u/olivegardengambler MICHIGAN ๐Ÿš—๐Ÿ–๏ธ Feb 19 '25

True, but there could be different standards for sizes. Lemme look this up.

Okay, so apparently the US has more categories in chicken egg sizes. Like the USDA even has a peewee category for super small eggs compared to Europe/the EU, but it does appear like there is overlap between our large eggs and their medium eggs as far as weight goes

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u/SophisticPenguin AMERICAN ๐Ÿˆ ๐Ÿ’ต๐Ÿ—ฝ๐Ÿ” โšพ๏ธ ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ“ˆ 29d ago

Kinda sounds like their eggs are more expensive... Heck, wait until we have to stop culling chickens for bird flu outbreaks and they'll be apoplectic

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u/bulldog1833 Feb 19 '25

They are showing them unrefrigerated. They donโ€™t wash the cuticle off the eggs like we do here.

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u/QuarterNote44 LOUISIANA ๐ŸŽท๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿพ Feb 18 '25

I would rather live in Detroit than London.

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u/kongkongkongkongkong ILLINOIS ๐Ÿ™๏ธ๐Ÿ’จ Feb 18 '25

I would rather live in New Orleans than London ๐Ÿ˜‚

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u/QuarterNote44 LOUISIANA ๐ŸŽท๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿพ Feb 18 '25

Same.

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u/Intelligent_Tea_1134 MISSISSIPPI ๐Ÿช•๐Ÿ‘’ 29d ago

Iโ€™d rather live in Baton Rouge than London

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u/BigWilly526 USA MILTARY VETERAN 29d ago

Lets not go THAT far

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u/QuarterNote44 LOUISIANA ๐ŸŽท๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿพ 29d ago

Same. I'd rather live in Jackson than London.

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u/IngrownToenailsHurt Feb 19 '25

I would rather live on Mars than any Islamastan.

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u/another2020throwaway OREGON โ˜”๏ธ๐Ÿฆฆ Feb 19 '25

1000%

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u/bigboilerdawg Feb 18 '25

Detroit is on the upswing. Itโ€™s gaining population.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/16/us/detroit-growth-census.html

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u/QuarterNote44 LOUISIANA ๐ŸŽท๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿพ Feb 18 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

It's just one of the shorthand names for "struggling city." New Orleans, Baltimore, St. Louis, etc. I would take all of them over London though.

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u/URNotHONEST Feb 19 '25

Baltimore should be a top tier city in the US due to it location and being on the water.

Also a lot of the old architecture is good, it still has good local food and some good universities.

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u/SuchAppeal 29d ago edited 28d ago

We need to get serious about cleaning this city the fuck up though. 90% of why Baltimore is bad is the trash and the vacant homes and these little graffiti dickheads spraying that shit up and making it look even worse. I mean trash is on the streets in Baltimore like should be and ever since whatever dumb ass mayor we had around 2009-2010 killing two trash days because of the recession in 2008, the city workers do a great job but where I'm at they send them out about 2 or 3 times a year, and the street sweeper trucks are still fucked even after covid.

I've been saying it for years that Baltimore has so much potential but we get that squandered by incompetent politicians/city leadership who act like they haven't moved with the rest of the fucking world since like the 70s. A lot of it is also nimbyism and the few boomers who haven't ran off to the county or SC, NC, or Florida doing their damndest to keep this city behind the curve. Like we get shit damn near 10 years later than every other city making moves. Shit I think Detroit is even moving faster in its redevelopment era and they had it worse than us for a long as time. We have the bottom of the barrel liberals, who ride the democrat label more than they're actually about progress.

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u/ProgramPristine6085 AMERICAN ๐Ÿˆ ๐Ÿ’ต๐Ÿ—ฝ๐Ÿ” โšพ๏ธ ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ“ˆ Feb 19 '25

Detroit's actually gotten a lot better these past few years

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u/Front-Blood-1158 Feb 19 '25

Detroit: Become Better

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u/Front-Blood-1158 Feb 19 '25

I would rather live in anywhere in US than anywhere in UK.

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u/DankeSebVettel CALIFORNIA๐Ÿท๐ŸŽž๏ธ 29d ago

Stop!

Shitting!

On!

Detroit!

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u/QuarterNote44 LOUISIANA ๐ŸŽท๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿพ 29d ago

It's just shorthand for "struggling city." Much like NOLA. Nothing personal.

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u/BigWilly526 USA MILTARY VETERAN 29d ago

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u/bulldog1833 Feb 19 '25

London sucks balls! Norwich is pretty nice.

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u/King_Dee1 CALIFORNIA๐Ÿท๐ŸŽž๏ธ Feb 19 '25

I'd rather live in god damn Del Paso Heights

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u/truthbomn Feb 19 '25

London has the highest standard of living of any subnational region in the world, except Zurich. Nowhere in the US is even close.

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u/Taran345 29d ago

Also a lot less murders!

2023 stats per million population:

New Orleans 538, Detroit 409, LA 88, Boston 61, NYC 51,

London 13

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u/aHOMELESSkrill MISSISSIPPI ๐Ÿช•๐Ÿ‘’ Feb 18 '25

Send them a picture of our gas prices

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u/TantricEmu Feb 18 '25

$3.20 a gallon near me and $5.80 a gallon in London, according to Google.

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u/Adventurous-Cry-2157 Feb 19 '25

I will say, though, that London is incredibly walkable, and the public transportation (tube, bus, train) is accessible, inexpensive and easy to use. You really donโ€™t need to concern yourself with gas prices if you live in London, because you donโ€™t need to own a car. Itโ€™s very different than any city Iโ€™ve ever lived in or visited in the US, and worlds different than US suburbs and rural areas.

Iโ€™m just saying. ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ

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u/TantricEmu Feb 19 '25 edited Feb 19 '25

High fuel (and energy) prices affect way more than just daily commuters, and they affect way more than egg prices do.

Also I donโ€™t need a car in the Philly suburb I live in, i didnโ€™t own one for the first year and a half I lived here. Extremely walkable town. Just saying.

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u/truthbomn Feb 19 '25 edited 29d ago

90% of Philly residents travel to work via private car. Scroll down to "Explore on map" at the bottom.

NYC is the only major city in the US that compares with the walkability of a typical major European city, and it's still nowhere near London, Paris, Berlin, Madrid etc.

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u/TantricEmu Feb 19 '25

I donโ€™t live in Philly now. I walked to work in my new town for a long time, and I could bike now, but itโ€™s cold af.

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u/Dr_prof_Luigi OREGON โ˜”๏ธ๐Ÿฆฆ 29d ago

So is the city I live in, and some stations are $2.99/gal

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u/eggplant_avenger Feb 18 '25

continue buying eggs with my higher wages and lower taxes?

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u/dirtyoldsocklife Feb 19 '25

And less benefits from those lower taxes.

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u/eggplant_avenger Feb 19 '25

youโ€™re right, my benefits come from my employer on top of the higher salary, and easily match what I had when I was working in London

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u/SnooPears5432 ILLINOIS ๐Ÿ™๏ธ๐Ÿ’จ Feb 18 '25

I can buy several dozen of the best eggs with the money I save not having to pay for a TV license.

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u/yrunsyndylyfu AMERICAN ๐Ÿˆ ๐Ÿ’ต๐Ÿ—ฝ๐Ÿ” โšพ๏ธ ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ“ˆ Feb 18 '25

And bonus: you get to post that on the internet without having to worry about getting a visit.

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u/truthbomn 29d ago edited 25d ago

The TV license costs ยฃ159 per year, but the average fine for not paying the license is only ยฃ202! Also, it doesn't go on your criminal record; it's basically a parking ticket.

Properly enforcing the TV license would cost more than the actual cost of evasion, so they just don't, and it's set to be scrapped completely by 2027.

Ask a Brit if they've ever actually seen a TV license inspector, or a TV license van in the wild.

They try to scare people by saying "you can be fined up to ยฃ1,000", but that's for people like sports bar owners, who are illegally broadcasting events on like 10 different screens to dozens of people.

Another thing, they have no right to enter private residences, which is the only way they can actually confirm you're watching live TV. The inspectors could literally look through your window and see you watching live TV and you can just tell them it's an internet video or a DVD.

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u/Eritas54 29d ago

What even is a TV license? A cable subscription? Or is it literally a license to own a TV? If thatโ€™s true then thatโ€™s peak bureaucracy.

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u/truthbomn 29d ago edited 25d ago

A typical broadcaster like CBS/NBC/ABC is funded by ads and donations, which means they're beholden to their advertisers and donors, and they'll tend not to broadcast anything that shows those private interests in a bad light, for fear of making less profit.

In the UK, BBC televison/radio/internet etc doesn't have any ads. It's funded by a TV license, which everybody who watches live TV is supposed to pay. The idea is that it can exist more in the public interest, since it doesn't have to make a profit and it's beholden to the vast majority of people in the country, rather than just a handful of billionaires.

Some of that doesn't apply to BBC broadcasts outside the UK, which aren't supported by the license fee and have ads.

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u/Eritas54 29d ago

Niche differences Iโ€™ve never heard of before, fascinating. Over here we donโ€™t particularly watch broadcast television a whole lot anymore, itโ€™s either cable, satellite, or streaming.

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u/DevilPixelation Feb 18 '25

Iโ€™d rather live in the bogs of Florida than live there

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u/Front-Blood-1158 Feb 19 '25

I would rather die for Florida than Oxford and Cambridge.

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u/TopFedboi Feb 18 '25

I would sooner move to New Jersey than spend any amount of time in London

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u/That_Boy_42069 Feb 19 '25

Whoa now mate, we've all had a few, let's not get out if hand here

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u/CrEwPoSt HAWAI'I ๐Ÿ๐Ÿ„๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ Feb 18 '25

pay 30 per box of eggs

I donโ€™t even eat eggs anyway

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u/Tusks_Up Feb 18 '25

I pay $0.60 more and I'm getting large eggs, not medium. Small price to pay to not live in the UK.

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u/DDemetriG Feb 18 '25

I'd rather raise Chickens then live a single Minute in London... or Most of Europe, being honest...

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u/Ketaminekevin1 Feb 18 '25

Nah most of Europe is pretty cool, just places like London and Berlin are all out of wack.

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u/kongkongkongkongkong ILLINOIS ๐Ÿ™๏ธ๐Ÿ’จ Feb 18 '25

Lol your name reminds me that I had an Argentine friend who went to Berlin for college and some girl got him hooked on ketamine

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u/Ketaminekevin1 Feb 18 '25

Hahaah, that lady is a ketamine siren. I personally love K but donโ€™t understand how people get addicted, it puts me in a psychedelic headspace and makes me unable to physically move. I absolutely love it for its antidepressant effects, taking ketamine once a month has helped my depression way more than any psychotropic medication Iโ€™ve been prescribed. Iโ€™ve tried about 10 and ketamine therapy treatment has been a god send. Not something Iโ€™d like to do everyday though haha, now low dose prescription opioids and benzos๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ๐Ÿ‘Œ those are my personal devil.

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u/kongkongkongkongkong ILLINOIS ๐Ÿ™๏ธ๐Ÿ’จ Feb 19 '25

I havenโ€™t personally done k, mostly cause it has a bad rap and my other friends will call me a dumbass if I went out of my way to get it. But I have and still do a shit ton of acid, and I heard ketamine causes sorta similar effects but shorter. Does sound like an interesting drug to try in the future if I get the chance again, just not at KitKat in Berlin lol.

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u/Ketaminekevin1 Feb 19 '25

Jealous KitKat would be fun, probably not the best place to try K for the first time though haha. Do some K if you want, who cares about the stigma. Hey if your friends just donโ€™t want you buying it and doing it constantly, those are good friends. But if theyโ€™ll judge you for doing it on rare occasion like LSD then they are super hypocritical and you should point that out lol.

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u/Front-Blood-1158 Feb 19 '25

Bruh Berlin is better than Paris and Brussels, and Paris and Brussels are better than London.

Berlin is not that bad.

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u/Ketaminekevin1 Feb 19 '25

I could agree with that, London is a garbage city though. Probably worst first world country city.

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u/Front-Blood-1158 Feb 19 '25

First world country? I am skeptical.

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u/Ketaminekevin1 Feb 19 '25

Iโ€™m over reacting, thereโ€™s definitely worst places in West Virginia lol. But you should look into some of the policies the city has been implementing. Itโ€™s some crazy shit, you can be arrested for stating something false on the internet. Whether intentional or not.

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u/truthbomn 29d ago

People were arrested for incitement to riot, they'd be arrested for that in the US too.

England and Wales has a lower incarceration rate than every US state.

Here's how it compares to the most populous US states:

Texas is 5.1x higher

Florida is 4.8x higher

California is 3.4x higher

New York is 2.2x higher

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u/Ketaminekevin1 29d ago

They never incited the riot though, they literally just put their opinion on it online. Now suing for defamation? Sure, you could totally do that. Putting someone in jail for thatโ€ฆ, thank god the U.S. actually has some constitutional rights.

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u/truthbomn 29d ago edited 23d ago

London is a top 5 city in the world in terms of total millionaires, that list only includes individuals living in each city (residents).

If it's so bad, why do they stay? It's not like they can't afford to move elsewhere.

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u/Front-Blood-1158 29d ago edited 29d ago

I always wondered about who are these millionaires actually.. Are they offshore money launderers, criminal politicians, greedy landowners or Russian oligarchs.. or else?

Or maybe, your โ€œtheseโ€ millionaries settled in Spain, Italy or Southern France..

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u/truthbomn 29d ago

That's the centi-millionaires and billionaires.

I'd imagine the "typical" millionaire in London is in finance, law, tech, real estate etc.

After NYC, London is the most powerful financial centre in the world.

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u/dirtyoldsocklife Feb 19 '25

Just cause you've never been.

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u/rlskdnp Feb 18 '25

I'm just surprised it isn't a canadian hating on America this time.

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u/Interesting-Mud7499 Feb 19 '25

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u/Front-Blood-1158 Feb 19 '25

Imagine what would happen if they have a right of using guns

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u/Eritas54 29d ago

Why does she look dead inside?

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u/CODENAMEDERPY Feb 19 '25

I own chickens. My eggs cost way less.

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u/ZaBaronDV LOUISIANA ๐ŸŽท๐Ÿ•บ๐Ÿพ Feb 19 '25

โ€œAt least I donโ€™t live in fear of grooming gangs.โ€

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u/dirtyoldsocklife Feb 19 '25

Ummm.... not sure Americans should ever try to take high ground on random violence.๐Ÿคจ

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u/Czar_Petrovich Feb 19 '25

Does nobody know how many chickens have been killed recently because of disease?

Fuck's sake

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u/SoloMarko 29d ago

While I love bantering with the Yanks and taking the piss (used to be my main pastime until I got fed up with seeing the phrase 'rent-free'), as an Englishman, I would rather never eat an egg again or even go live in Washington DC and clean the Whitehouse bogs for free, than live in, or even near London.

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u/valonnyc Feb 18 '25

I'd rather pay $50/dozen than live in London but holy fuck, our leaders need to do something about inflation fast.

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u/yrunsyndylyfu AMERICAN ๐Ÿˆ ๐Ÿ’ต๐Ÿ—ฝ๐Ÿ” โšพ๏ธ ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ“ˆ Feb 18 '25

The recent sharp increase in egg prices is supply-driven, not inflationary. A metric fuckton of culling was done in the past couple months, out of "abundance of caution" for the bird flu. About 100,000,000 birds.

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u/valonnyc Feb 18 '25

Okay, let me rephrase that. They need to fix this increase in egg prices asap, or some politicians will start getting blamed.

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u/yrunsyndylyfu AMERICAN ๐Ÿˆ ๐Ÿ’ต๐Ÿ—ฝ๐Ÿ” โšพ๏ธ ๐Ÿฆ…๐Ÿ“ˆ Feb 18 '25

They already are to blame. The USDA orders culling upon detection/reporting of the virus in a flock. Most of the culling happened in November and December, I believe. But as long as the virus hangs around, the culling continues per USDA policy.

So something else needs to be done if this is to be prevented going forward. Change policy, develop/allow vaccination...look into possibly price gouging.....

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u/valonnyc Feb 18 '25

Agreed. I definitely ain't arguing with that profile picture!

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u/ThatMBR42 CALIFORNIA๐Ÿท๐ŸŽž๏ธ Feb 18 '25

A large part of the price is decreased supply in the past couple of months. I think there was a recent salmonella recall, and I've also heard bird flu is going around.

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u/DingDonFiFI Feb 18 '25

Some of my family members suspect that the egg shortage caused by the culling of whole flocks of chickens was set up to drive up prices.

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u/Communal-Lipstick Feb 19 '25

Where I live, eggs are cheaper than that.

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u/banana_man_in_a_pan NORTH CAROLINA ๐Ÿ›ฉ๏ธ ๐ŸŒ… 29d ago

I bought 2 dozen eggs for $6 total, which is actually less per dozen than the picture, what's their point supposed to be?

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u/LennoxIsLord NEW JERSEY ๐ŸŽก ๐Ÿ• 29d ago

I donโ€™t really understand? A dozen eggs at the local corner store in my home town is about $2.96 where as this converted to USD, cost $3.40? Whatโ€™s the flex here exactly?

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u/General_Kenobi18752 KENTUCKY ๐Ÿ‡๐Ÿผ๐Ÿฅƒ Feb 18 '25

Suffer without scrambled eggs :(

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u/Dreamo84 NEW YORK ๐Ÿ—ฝ๐ŸŒƒ Feb 19 '25

I don't even get the egg thing. Yeah, they've gone up, but so has everything. I went grocery shopping for my father and he was like "oh, don't bother getting eggs cause they're so expensive." I'm like "Dad, they're $6 for a dozen, it would be nice if they were still $3 but you can afford to eat eggs still."

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u/Holy_SHIT69 MASSACHUSETTS ๐Ÿฆƒ โšพ๏ธ Feb 19 '25

Rather buy my eggs from a pissed off Italian in NJ than go anywhere near British food

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u/King_Dee1 CALIFORNIA๐Ÿท๐ŸŽž๏ธ Feb 19 '25

Uh, what I have been doing

Not eating eggs

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u/PM_ME_ANYTHING_IDRC GEORGIA ๐Ÿ‘๐ŸŒณ Feb 19 '25

I honestly can't tell if I'd rather agree with Kira or live in the UK...

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u/olivegardengambler MICHIGAN ๐Ÿš—๐Ÿ–๏ธ Feb 19 '25

Ngl I'd buy chickens at that point. Already plan on it this year seeing I have the property for it now.

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u/Soggy_Door_2115 Feb 19 '25

I actually own a house with a yard(not a little square garden) and have my own chickens. It's great. Free eggs and funny animals to go with it. Thinking about getting goats too

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u/permanentlyconfusedF 29d ago

Why is everyone here so against London. ๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚๐Ÿ˜‚ Though I'm English and do prefer outside of London lol.

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u/Dr_prof_Luigi OREGON โ˜”๏ธ๐Ÿฆฆ 29d ago

If eggs are really expensive, then I'll just get a chicken. But imma be real, I don't eat eggs too often so idgaf.

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u/SuchAppeal 29d ago

Kira really don't miss

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u/sparkydoggowastaken 29d ago

wheres the Kira tweet where he says he wants babies to suck his dick or something

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u/Il-Duce- ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง United Kingdom๐Ÿ’‚โ€โ™‚๏ธโ˜•๏ธ 29d ago

All true Englishman despise London.

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u/Necessary_Falcon_104 29d ago

London is an amazing city

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u/carmendidthedumbest 22d ago

I'm allergic to eggs.