That’s $3 for 15 eggs. Sadly not free-range, only cage-free.
Not sure if this is the best community for this post, does anyone have a better suggestion?
They get even cheaper than this as well - this is on sale at Hemköp for the non-organic brand. If you look at Lidl for the same category, the regular price is approximately the same. To get lower you’d have to buy the 24-pack. If you get it on sale, then you’re looking at basically the best price imaginable, probably somewhere below 2 SEK/egg.
Why are eggs so expensive in Sweden, not even fancy organic free range eggs?
I think everything is expensive in the Nordic countries
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.
This is interesting to see as someone who hasn’t been able to afford to travel. One of the cool things since learning German that I have noticed is that I can read a lot of Swedish and Dutch. Those languages kind of look like a combination of English and German with alternative spelling to me now.
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
R$25, or ~4 dollars for 30 eggs in Brazil
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.
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
15? Wth is this? Insanity.
Eggs come in 6 or 12 packs. That’s it.
The other day I saw a place with a pack of 20 for the first time and had to recheck in what planet I was.
6-packs are available in the US, but it’s mostly 12 and 18-packs. There’s also the giant package, which must canonically be a “pallet” of eggs.
In City Center Supermarket I can get 4 packs.
In Singapore, chicken eggs come in packs of 6, 10, 12 (always labelled as having two bonus eggs: 10 + 2), 15, and 30. Duck eggs come in packs of 6. Quail eggs come in cans (NFI how many they include).
Ägg is not what I expected the Swedish word for egg to be.
its actually pronounced almost identically
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.
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
Boi, do I have an abomination for you
Bonus egg
Bonus bysphenols A-Z
This seems inconvenient for retailers.
🤯
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
I’m a weirdo that likes to make myself 4 eggs at a time. WHERE DO I GET THE LAST EGG??
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.
Is that IKEA font?
Yes
Why aren’t the egss refrigerated?
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
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.
They are poop free. They are cleaned but not the same way as in the USA. More a tidy up than a wash.
Finally, someone is asking the real questions.
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
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.
