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ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

100K eggs stolen from central Pa. supplier

www.pennlive.com

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100K eggs stolen from central Pa. supplier

www.pennlive.com

ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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The eggs taken from the back of a distribution trailer in Franklin County are worth about $40,000.
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  • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOP
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    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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      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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        Don’t forget the toilet paper man.

      • grue@lemmy.world
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        What about the Walrus?

    • shoulderoforion@fedia.ioBanned from community
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      The masks and biohacks alone will be brilliant!

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

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    • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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      Waffle house

      • tal@lemmy.today
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        In the news today:

        https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/food/waffle-house-egg-surcharge/index.html

        Waffle House is placing a surcharge on every egg it sells

        “The continuing egg shortage caused by HPAI (bird flu) has caused a dramatic increase in egg prices,” Waffle House said in the statement to CNN. “Customers and restaurants are being forced to make difficult decisions.”

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          Lol, “difficult decisions.”

    • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.world
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      This sounds like a line from Trailer Park Boys

    • Damage@slrpnk.net
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      Someone who already has a buyer, most likely an industry.

    • thesohoriots@lemmy.world
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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.

    • AshMan85@lemmy.world
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      Give em to the poor

      • NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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        This is America. Those eggs are going to the black market.

    • Custard@lemmy.world
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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

    • glitch1985@lemmy.world
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      You underestimate how many deviled eggs I can eat.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      Maybe start marking eggs with some kind of dye pattern to make it harder.

    • Kyuuketsuki@lemmy.ml
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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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    That’ll help the price go down…

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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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      I can’t wait to buy black market eggs!

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

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      My sweetest hen.

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        Everyone I know
        fries some eggs in the end

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

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            I won’t undercook

            I will make you eggs

      • shoulderoforion@fedia.ioBanned from community
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        YES!

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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      A dystopian anti-intellectual society ruled by tech oligarchs.

      Buy a gun.

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    I bet it was one of those criminal gangs from across the border we’ve been hearing so much about. We gotta send more troops to protect Pennsylvania.

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

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    So millions of dollars worth

    • ZeroCool@slrpnk.netOP
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      Joking aside, it was about $40k worth of eggs.

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

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          Eh, pallets don’t sell for retail price, and stolen ones, well…

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            If you file off the serial number, they can’t be traced!

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

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                They do? Huh. I thought they only did that on the boxes, not the eggs themselves. TIL.

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    I need to put a lock on my chicken coup at this rate.

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      https://goodbearcomics.com/2021/09/23/chickens/

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        Lol! This got a laugh out of me

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    Vegans gotta be laughing their asses off rn

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

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        What about bread and pastries? Eggs are in a lot of things

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          I’ve been avoiding those lately
          I’m lucky I suppose

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    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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      It’s egg farmers trying to increase the price even further.

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    That’s one big omlette.

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    Lol.

    Get ready to see a lot more of this.

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    Burn them

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