This is what true freedom looks like.
Yes, you can choose to decorate eggs OR potatoes. Why not apples! This is true freedom. No shegingping telling you what you can and can’t decorate!
+1 capitalism
This is what happens when you either don’t have your own chickens in village or don’t buy local which are fresh from people who do have.
Meanwhile in China
That’s why I love China. They have things structured to keep prices of food low.
That’s what I’m talking about!
Is the price per grams or kg?
3.99 RMB ($0.55) per 500g - about 10 eggs.
It would be better to compare the cost using average wages, or even minimum wage. Where I live in the west we could get about 282kg of eggs permonth on minimum wage (pretax), and in some Chinese provinces (minimum wage varies) you could get 340kg.
Jeez, you can’t even imagine something like that in USA and west in general.
Prices were very similar back in Yugoslavia and entire Eastern Europe.
In México, we are having price surges as well. People prefer to smuggle eggs instead selling them locally because the price is higher in the other side. It sucks when capitalist have the means of production.
I envy people living in China or in other socialist countries.
Is it because of tariffs?
Yankees are pretty much getting what’s coming to them after that but idk how it’s effecting other countries.
We all miss Yugoslavia here, it’s slowly getting worse even here but it’s alright for now.
Nah, eggs prices are rising in Mexico due to the shortage of eggs in the USA which mostly caused by several reasons: Bird flu, price speculation and some others(maybe someone more knowledgeable could correct me on this).
Going back to Mexico, Mexican capitalist are favoring the US market because they can profit way more and that is pushing the price upward. Tariffs for the Mexica food industry are in a 90 day pause except for tomatoes.
What’s crazy to me is that people won’t even buy local eggs that are still being sold for cheaper. A year ago, the free range and pasture eggs were going for $5-7 a dozen in my area and still selling. We sell eggs for a relative that pasture raises chickens and we were selling out weekly at $4 a dozen. Had to raise price to $5 a dozen because of feed cost and we have just gotten no sales in weeks. People just, in general, have stopped buying any eggs. A guy down the road from us sells for $4 a dozen still and he’s fully stocked. It’s kind of surreal. Meanwhile the cheapest eggs at the store are $5+ and the pasture raised type store eggs and in the teens. It’s a few days before Easter and I haven’t sold a single dozen eggs in two weeks.
Good.
Why didn’t we do that before but for vegan reasons?
Most Americans aren’t vegan. Also, the egg is symbolic for fertility and much of Easter traditions are based on the pagan Ester traditions, which celebrated spring and fertility. Hence the eggs and bunnies. I think it might also be because of how they’re dyed and how that might not work on potatoes. Maybe it’ll be a new tradition though.
idk man potatoes get me pretty fertile myself…
And any red-blooded being with taste, true. But I don’t think European pagans knew they existed when Ester was a thing. If they had, it very well might have been a staple in Easter too.
Oh absolutely not they had no clue, but honestly Christianity utilised so many pagan traditions as well as Norse and Greek gods why not chuck in some South American food into the mix at this point, finalise the gumbo-ification of western religon!!
Mmm. Gumbo. My only guess is that by 1492 the Catholics forgot what syncretism was.
