That’s $3 for 15 eggs. Sadly not free-range, only cage-free.
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Is that IKEA font?
Yes
No idea how much money 35:-/st is, but apparently it’s marked down from 42:95/st, so I’ll take two please.
It’s approximately 11 SEK to a dollar. Used to be less, but that was pre-pandemic.
Why aren’t the egss refrigerated?
The USDA requires eggs to be washed, which removes the natural protective coating. Then they need to be kept cool in a refrigerator.
Over there the eggs aren’t required to be washed so the natural protective coating stays on. No refrigeration needed.
Fun fact, unlike the rest of the EU, sweden does wash almost all its eggs. Unlike the United States, Sweden has very strict rules regarding how that wash is done though, and the eggs does 't loose their membrane.
In the EU washed eggs are generally illegal to sell outside of the country of origin, Sweden is granted an exemption from that rule due the gentle nature of the wash.
As someone who used to raise chickens, I know that the eggs can be covered in poop. Does this leave poop on the eggs in the store if they are unwashed?
Yeah, some of them could have some dried up poop on the shell. Not often and not many though. But you can wash them before you use them.
Finally, someone is asking the real questions.
They are poop free. They are cleaned but not the same way as in the USA. More a tidy up than a wash.
Eggs have a natural membrane that is removed through washing in the USA amongst other places, for example. This membrane allows eggs a longer shelflife and also allows them to be kept unrefrigerated
I think I’m more bothered by the fact that it’s 15 eggs rather than a dozen or 18. I’m used to seeing eggs in multiples of six. This is weirding me out.
I’m a weirdo that likes to make myself 4 eggs at a time. WHERE DO I GET THE LAST EGG??
Gotta buy 4 packs to even it out
I haven’t thought about that, haven’t bought eggs for almost a decade so I generally don’t look at them. I think it’s a brand thing now that I looked at different store sites, some are 6, 12 or 24, others are 10, 15 or 30.
Shrinkflation is brutal.
Common sizes in Sweden are 6, 12, 15 and 24.
No idea how 15 made it in there, it is what it is.
some do 10 as well
Ah yeah, right you are
Boi, do I have an abomination for you
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Bonus egg
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This seems inconvenient for retailers.
It takes up more space than the traditional cuboid
Metric eggs!!
Base-5 eggs
Based eggs.
Oh wow, their chickens don’t pop 6 at a time ehh.
/s
This gave me a good laugh
They sell eggs in packages of 6, 10, 12 and 15 in Tesco here in the UK.
Only 15 confuses me. Why not make it an even number every time?
It’s weird, there is no reason for eggs to be expensive. Eggs are ultra cheap to manufacture. You can do that anywhere and just need some kind of food because they can eat a lot of different things. It doesn’t need precious metals or rare earth or patents or import raw materials - any country can just produce chickens and eggs easily.
So egg prices skyrocketing is either a fundamental dysfunction in a countries economy. Or maybe a political move to influence an election.
well, losing tens of millions of hens to bird flu is bound to make a dent in the supply side of the supply/demand balance.
Chickens do have vitamin, mineral, and macronutrient requirements to maintain health, produce eggs, and produce the next generation of healthy chicks. So it’s not just “anything” in that sense. Some areas couldn’t support sustained, particularly large-scale, flocks with only inputs from the local environment. That said, they’re not too finicky.
Secondarily, whole flocks, commerical and backyard, are being culled to attempt to contain avian influenza. One human recently died after getting it (they had a backyard flock and also other health problems).
I do feel the need to point out that the people posting the astronomical egg prices tend to live in the most expensive areas of the country, and don’t do themselves any favors in terms of their choice of local grocery store.
Eggs are $4 for 12 at Aldi. While that’s a little more than twice what they usually are, it isn’t really the biggest deal in the grand scheme of things for an individual consumer.
3 for 15 isn’t bad
We are at $6 for 12 and that is for the cheap eggs
The idea of the post is that they aren’t expensive here. The past few weeks, seeing all the price of eggs in the US memes and then I see this at my local store. It’s right by the entrence and a weekly deal, it seems consciously done, haha. Like “those silly Americans, well show that we don’t have any egg problems here.”
The weirdness of it all is that in my area the organic freerange eggs are now the cheapest by far, their prices haven’t gone up, I assume they didn’t lose chickens to bird flu
Funny how if you don’t cram 10,000 chickens into tiny cages all stacked on top of one another…
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It’s about 5-6000 KRW/30 eggs here in Seoul, provided you go for the cheapest ones, so about $4 per 30.
Everything else is ridiculously expensive though
this picture raises so many questions
why is it in the middle of a corner, why is the box tilted so weird, why aren’t they refrigerated, why are they in 15 packs, why is it ägg, how do you pronounce ägg, what is happening??Because of differing standards of bacteria
https://www.businessinsider.com/guides/health/diet-nutrition/do-eggs-need-to-be-refrigerated?op=1
Also, are you really confused why a language with common roots with English has similar but different spelling? Did you know that we call children Barn (see bairn) or the old word for window is Vindöga ?
A newer loan word is Tejp for tape, and in my car I have a radio. Garage is the same word, but weather and väder are just almost
They aren’t refrigerated because eggs naturally have a coating on them that protects them from spoiling due to exposure. In the US we wash it off in an effort to get things like salmonella off the shells, instead of regulate farm side safety measures
That sounds awesome! I definitely vote for clean, refrigerated eggs.
Why tho? Over here they don’t need refrigeration, keep longer, and are still salmonella-free. Really unproblematic to eat them raw as well.
Eggs don’t have to be refrigerated unless the shells have been cleaned
Europe doesn’t refridgerate eggs, you don’t have to when you don’t wash them. It’s somewhere accessible because it is a sale for them.
People say this, but I still don’t believe it.
And no, that’s not just because I’m an American and love refrigeration. I’ve stayed in Mexico for extended periods and they do the same shit where eggs are left out at the stores.
And every time I’m down there, I play Russian roulette with fucking eggs. Making hotcakes? Crack every egg into a seperate bowl one at a time before adding to the batter, because 1 in 10 are fucking rancid. Making breakfast? Cook eggs one at a time because, again, it’s rancid egg roulette and I’d rather not throw out 2 perfectly good eggs because one is totally fucked.
And yes I know the trick of checking if they float in water, but that means I also have to waste water in a desert. I’d rather just use a separate bowl.
Just because you don’t have to refrigerate something right away doesn’t mean you shouldn’t. My eggs in America last for weeks in the fridge, and I never have to worry about ruining an entire cake or dish because I cracked a bomb of rancid shit into it.
Don’t know about Mexico, but i’ve never had a rotten egg in a fresh carton in Switzerland.
I start doing the swim test when my eggs are 2 weeks over the indicated minimum shelf life, and they are usually only standing up, not swimming yet.
Exactly. I only recently started experiencing rotten eggs and it’s mostly because I have them at home and forget they exist and 3 months later I go and try and they are bad.
My eggs in Europe last for weeks without refridgirating them. I never cracked a rancid egg in my life. They’re all fresh and “work as intended”.
Smaller stores some times place box shelfs like that do to low amount of wall space and regular spalce.
Why the tilt sometimes do to space issues, sometimes someone moved it or the staff was in a hurry.
Why 15 , we also have 6,10,12,20 and 24, never really reflected on that.
Why are your eggs refrigerated?
Fun fact even though stores don’t keep the eggs in the refrigerator most people do when we get home. I don’t know why that is, either way on the matter.
How to pronounce ägg like egg but with ai from air instead of e.
What is happening eggs on sale at a relative normal price at a normal store.
Thanks, you just made me realise I used the same vowel in “air” and “egg” and it makes me uncomfortable.
We do the same re: fridge in Australia, although stores are increasingly moving them to fridges recently.
My speculation is supermarkets maximise for cost, homes maximise for longevity.
Alternatively, homes tend to get hotter than supermarkets.
I’m sorry for that, then I can’t really help to much with the pronunciation.
My mum has the same theory about temperature, makes some sense I haven’t really noticed but I also haven’t measured it.
Intresting that Australia dose the same.
Do you do the same with the word leg? This is typical in Ohio or another part of Midwest US.
I say egg. People in Ohio say ayyyg and layyyg, drawing out the vowel. Do you do this as well?
Those are some pretty easy to answer questions?
- for the same reason a kitchen island is in the middle of a corner
- it’s a pallet of eggs, someone dropped it there with a jig
- it seems one side of the corner has a barrier, the pallet attemps to complete it and prevent people from going that way (a cash register might be there). Or the person dropping it wasn’t careful
- only bleached eggs need a fridge, most of the world doesn’t bleach their eggs so they can stay on the counter.
- why not 15? Base 12 makes sense because it’s a highly divisible number (1/2/3/4/6/12) so a lot of stuff are dozens or half a dozens, but there’s no reason eggs need to be. It likely has to do with “the packing problem” which is a difficult math problem of how to shape stuff so you fit the most in a truck load
- other countries have other languages, and even sometimes completely different alphabets that resemble or share the same roots as English
- you are experiencing another culture.
Just found a receipt in my pocket from yesterday. The smallest shittiest eggs are 33.30 Norwegian Kroner for 12 at co-op xtra ($2.95).
If there’s anything I miss about reddit it’s that if you were looking for a place to post something like this you could just go to r/eggs or r/eggprices and it would typically work
/r/weirdeggs for pictures of odd shaped eggs. Very odd and specific subs
Yeah, the off brand is always cheaper
All I see is a pile of Äggs. Eggs on the other hand, those fuckers are expensive.
:P
Äggs eez bargain. Almost as good!
The two dots above the A means they’re fancy!
Must be from one of those bird species with spotted eggs?
They’re from Österreich
Ägg and egg is pronounced almost identically.
depends on who’s reading it
And du sparar 7.95!
What is that “:-” symbol next to the number? I thought they used “kr” as the symbol for their money?
It’s short for 35:00, so the price is 35 kronor and 0 ören
Ah that makes sense. Like the other guy said that just makes me think of time lol.
: is an interesting separator that I would only think of for time
i’ve made a post about his before, but it sort of used to be an öre separator. it’s just that people have forgotten, so now you get stuff like “23,50:-”
they use :- instead of currency symbol because then you don’t think of it as money, you are more likely to happily pay a bigger price
I’m just working off context here, can’t really defend the Swedes. It seems a little unusual to me too.
But I can’t complain too much, because there are plenty of weirdoes in my country who use single dots for time, which I find even worse. Especially because the dot is also often a decimal separator. So depending on context 9.25 can be 09:25 or 9 hours and 15 minutes.
I like to keep things simple and don’t use any separator at all for time.
