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slrpnk.net

In the dumbest timeline our future Mad Max style hellscape will be dominated by those who control the eggs rather than oil and gas.

We must prepare our bodies for the Thunderdome. Thunderdome is the new law!

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IninewCrowreply
lemmy.ca

The Four Horsemen will be .... the Egg Man .... the Flour Man ... the Yeast Man ... all held together in an alliance with 'Oven Man'

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fedia.io

Who has the ability to fence 100K eggs before they go bad?

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Bro I got hard boiled, cage-free, and century. I can get my hands on Balut but it’ll take a couple days, and it’ll cost you.

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Someone who already has a buyer, most likely an industry.

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I wonder if this was before or after they wash the eggs. AFAIK they last longer and can be left unrefrigerated before they're washed

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Maybe start marking eggs with some kind of dye pattern to make it harder.

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I had actually thought about this sort of scenario happening, and wondered the same about a week ago. My conclusion was freeze drying to make powdered eggs that can be shelf stable for years.

Also might end up with a serious market for that as prices continue to climb with no end in sight.

Last I bought powdered egg prior to this recent skyrocketing, it was about a dollar per egg in equivalence. I don't know what it is now, but I'm sure that will go up too.

(I use powdered egg for baking because I just don't go through eggs enough to justify buying fresh. I actually save money by not having to throw away unused product)

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Depends: in the most likely case, where the thief is someone who's trying to exploit the crisis to make a quick buck (just like Big Egg are), your sarcasm is accurate.

In the unlikely, but not impossible, scenario of this being an act of Robin Hood style vigilantism, though, this could indeed make the price go down as a bunch of struggling people suddenly get free eggs..

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lemm.ee

So we are stealing eggs, now? What have we become...

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Tronn4reply
lemmy.world

And you can't eat them all! My empire of eggs

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A dystopian anti-intellectual society ruled by tech oligarchs.

Buy a gun.

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In other news, my store is having a 50% off sale on eggs! Everything must go!

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ZeroCoolreply
slrpnk.net

Joking aside, it was about $40k worth of eggs.

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lemmy.world

Huh, near me a dozen eggs is $9.50, so close to $80k worth of eggs at retail prices.

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Damagereply
slrpnk.net

Eh, pallets don't sell for retail price, and stolen ones, well...

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Damagereply
slrpnk.net

You joke, but industrially prepared eggs nowadays have expiration date and lot number printed on them

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lemmy.zip

not even vegan just don't like eggs and I'm increasingly lol

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lemmy.world

100k eggs about to go bad.

You'd have to try to sell to stores and restaurant chains. I'm guestimating that's 28 pallets of eggs. Googling says 8640 eggs per pallet, so 11.5 pallets.

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