Close to Home by John McPherson for March 06, 2025

And let’s not forget all the things on the shelves made with eggs, like cookies and mayonnaise and bread, etc. Those prices increase as well.

Maybe later this year that will happen.

No eggs at Costco today. I think I need to scramble in early morning.

Is the guard going to accompany her to her car?

Grocers will soon be using ’Egg-timer delayed safes."

This might be funny if it weren’t for the fact that 5 years ago they had a Sheriff’s deputy standing next to a pallet of toilet paper in the local Walmart.

As I took my package I looked at her and said “On behalf of the entire Human Race, I want to apologize to you for having to stand here today.”

She rolled her eyes and said “I’ve had weirder assignments – but not much.”

DING DING DING DING!

GREEN PLAID ALERT!

Everybody do a shot!

Maybe they’ll start doing egg rationing by odd and even license plate numbers… like they did with gas in the late 70’s.

Who needs Fort Knox when you could have a strategic egg reserve.

I don’t get egg hoarding, they have a finite shelf life.

They haven’t gotten cheaper, have they? Nothing has gotten cheaper. Normally, I wouldn’t say anything, but the promise was that prices would go down (not up) on day one.

Clean two dozen beats a dirty dozen.

Two dozen? I can’t afford that.

I thought this was going to be the first thing that got fixed.

Stop buying eggs and the price will soon drop.

We’ve gone from the regime’s apologists promising to lower the price of eggs to advising us to buy chickens.

Instead of smuggling fentanyl the Mexican cartels are now bringing in eggs. More profit.

Remember when people were buying up and hoarding toilet paper. Wasn’t that long ago!

I remember the last time this the bird flu hit, my brother blamed Biden for the price of eggs. I just let him rant. I haven’t heard a “peep” from him this time.

I saw that eggs were $10.95 a dozen at Whole Foods

Thanks Trump!

So funny, Americans and their idiocracies. That’s what happens when you put your eggs in one basket and then some moron comes along and drops the basket.

This is ova and above the call of duty.

Welcome to Trump’s Ameriꓘa.

Right now Egg prices are as bad as some people make them out to be. The problem is hoarding creating shortages which is why several stores are limiting sales to no more than 2 dozen

DOGE just fired the Easter bunny!

Welp, looks like I’ll be building a chicken coop this year

It’s the dollars, not the eggs. There is no way to pay off such a huge debt with high dollars, so they’re shrinking the dollar.

The way we got here: bird flu is scary contagious, especially when chickens are grown in the crowded conditions typical of Big Ag. For years, trucks that go in and out of these farms have condoms put on their tires to reduce the chance that the trucks can spread the virus. Thousands of birds have been killed to try to prevent spread.

It’s likely that the current administration will be anywhere near as willing to try to reduce the spread. And we already know that scientific research is no longer worthwhile. Don’t expect things to get better on that front.

Meanwhile….the 5 or 6 big chick producers, who worked seriously during the pandemic to increase production during the dark days of the pandemic, have realized that if they don’t work so hard at replacing the culled chickens, they can keep prices high both for chickens and for eggs. This is what we get when we get rid of job-killing regulations and ignore the consequences of allowing monopolies to form.

It’s fashionable for people to think they can raise chickens. People who really actually do raise chickens in their backyards will tell you without exception that it’s a lot of work, and that you will end up paying less for eggs at the store, given the costs of feed and other upkeep. Not to say there’s no reason to do it; just that it’s often way more difficult than newbies imagine.