# $4.00 for a dozen eggs?!? (RO) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 23, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541 "2008-07-23T21:45:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/1 "2008-07-23T21:45:41Z")
Fuck. Food prices are just getting unreal. We just returned from the local grocery store. Sticker shock all around. Eggs - $3.99/dozen Barilla Large Shells - $2.49 Starkist Tuna - $2.49/pouch Ground Round - $3.89/lb. Potatoes - $3.49/#5lb. This is what will make me stick to a diet. I remember when…well, what all older people say. Two years ago eggs were less than $1.50/dozen. Time to start plowing up the driveway for a garden. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/2 "2008-07-23T21:59:52Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Two years ago eggs were less than $1.50/dozen. Time to start plowing up the driveway for a garden. [/QUOTE] Make sure you plant the chickens at least 6 inches apart and no more than 2 inches deep. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/3 "2008-07-23T21:59:57Z")
Are these eggs from the golden goose? Free-range golden goose? StG ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/4 "2008-07-23T22:56:54Z")
[QUOTE=Apollyon] Make sure you plant the chickens at least 6 inches apart and no more than 2 inches deep. 😃 [/QUOTE] Be sure to plant pointy end up. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/5 "2008-07-23T23:11:31Z")
Maybe you need a better grocery store. Those prices aren’t quite as bad as Whole Paycheck, err, Whole Foods, but they’re worse than Safeway. In this week’s ad flyer, 80% hamburger is on sale for $2.49 a pound, and if you’re not fussy about the brand, they often have pasta on sale for a buck a box. Last time I bought eggs, (about a month ago) they were something like $2.79 for 18 at Costco. ---
**Author:** ![pbbth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@pbbth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pbbth)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/6 "2008-07-23T23:18:17Z")
Man, those are some expensive groceries! I am in Manhattan and I get eggs for less than $2/dozen and pasta for 75 cents per 1 lb box. I don’t know that I have ever paid that much for ground round or potatoes either. Tuna I don’t know about though…I don’t eat seafood of any kind so I can’t really compare prices there. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/7 "2008-07-23T23:41:25Z")
I get Barilla up here in Lancaster 2lbs/$1 **silenus**! Are you grocery shopping at AM/PM? (Although I will note that ramen rose to a whole \*dime \*a package. Not exactly highway robbery, sure, but it’s a sign of the times). ---
**Author:** ![GorillaMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/50afbb/32.png) [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2008, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/8 "2008-07-23T23:51:12Z")
That sounds like the cost of free range eggs in my local supermarket. Yet it’s no problem to pick up honesty-box side-of-road offerings at little more than half that. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/9 "2008-07-24T00:15:06Z")
Okay, I stopped by the grocery store on my way home. A dozen Grade A Extra-Large eggs were $1.89. A dozen non-caged, hand-picked eggs was $2.39. I didn’t check the rest of the prices. StG ---
**Author:** ![dogbutler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dogbutler/32/428_2.png) [@dogbutler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dogbutler)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/10 "2008-07-24T01:16:08Z")
I paid 99 cents for a six pack of eggs on Monday. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/11 "2008-07-24T01:40:44Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] Be sure to plant pointy end up. [/QUOTE] No no, the pointy end goes _down_! Otherwise the eggs have too far to travel to the surface! ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 6:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/12 "2008-07-24T06:58:03Z")
$2 for a dozen at a local CVS… shop around some. I know it’s California, but there’s got to be a better deal somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/13 "2008-07-24T07:34:48Z")
Hmm…beware **silenus** when your wife suddenly offers to give you a back rub and you notice she is using sage and oregano and she has oddly already pre-heated the oven. ---
**Author:** ![Marlitharn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marlitharn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marlitharn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/14 "2008-07-24T07:57:26Z")
I paid 89 cents a dozen at Aldi’s last week. Which is a dime cheaper than they usually are. Their pasta, on the other hand, was up by about 20 cents. But at least the kitty litter was still only $3.99 for a 15 pound tub. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/15 "2008-07-24T12:16:23Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] Fuck. Food prices are just getting unreal. We just returned from the local grocery store. Sticker shock all around. Eggs - $3.99/dozen Barilla Large Shells - $2.49 Starkist Tuna - $2.49/pouch Ground Round - $3.89/lb. Potatoes - $3.49/#5lb. This is what will make me stick to a diet. I remember when…well, what all older people say. Two years ago eggs were less than $1.50/dozen. Time to start plowing up the driveway for a garden. [/QUOTE] Except for the eggs being about $2 to $2.50 here everything else seems right for our local store, I can’t afford food from. Ground round is about $4.50 a pound too. Thank God I got a ride to Madison to buy my months groceries. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/16 "2008-07-24T13:36:39Z")
[QUOTE=Marlitharn] But at least the kitty litter was still only $3.99 for a 15 pound tub. [/QUOTE] Stop! You’re making me hungry. ---
**Author:** ![chela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chela/32/21582_2.png) [@chela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chela)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/17 "2008-07-24T15:14:38Z")
Did you get the super eggs, the super large ones that often have double yolks ? Those are $4 here. I buy those or the eggs from happy organic hens. YMMV but I feel they taste much better than the run of the mill eggs. I went to buy a 200ft roll of aluminum foil and it was damn near $10! ---
**Author:** ![kushiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbce88/32.png) [@kushiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kushiel)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/18 "2008-07-24T15:24:59Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Bruin] (Although I will note that ramen rose to a whole \*dime \*a package. Not exactly highway robbery, sure, but it’s a sign of the times). [/QUOTE] WTF? Man, it’s like thirty to fifty cents a pack for either store brand or name brand on sale here (name brand can go to eighty cents normally). Of course, price goes down when you buy it in bulk, but only a dime? Kee-rist! When is Canada going to get our prices treated like American ones, seeing as we’re damn near on par? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/19 "2008-07-24T15:28:46Z")
[QUOTE=chela] I went to buy a 200ft roll of aluminum foil and it was damn near $10! [/QUOTE] That’s a lot of hats! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scarlett67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scarlett67/32/7387_2.png) [@Scarlett67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlett67)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2008, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541/20 "2008-07-24T20:11:16Z")
Just for shits and giggles I noted egg prices today at the independently owned grocery store in my town (central WI): Eggland’s Best: $3.13/dz Sparboe Farms brown veg-fed eggs: $2.26/dz Sorry, I forgot to catch the size on those. IGA (store brand): ranged from $0.87/dz to $1.37/dz for medium through jumbo size; $1.67 for 18 large IGA eggs. I used to pay $1.50/dz for eggs from a local free-range source, but I haven’t been to that little country store in the last week or so. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/4-00-for-a-dozen-eggs-ro/457541.md?page=2)