Photo taken yesterday (2025-02-08) at a supermarket in Kyoto, Japan.
Alt text: A picture of the eggs section in a Japanese supermarket. There's a 10-pack of eggs going for 215 Japanese Yen, which is about 1.42 US dollars.
Wait till you see our healthcare prices.
Orthoepoedist visit and back medicine for two months.
You guys are all lucky I'm not in America anymore or I would delete all of these cheap egg photos for being COMMIE TRASH.
But now I'm in the UK and eggs are a reasonable price. Not that cheap, but reasonable.
Carry on.
Do not be fooled! These are WOKE DEI eggs from the Deep State. They have pronouns and are full of chemtrails and vaccines.
Man this is like 𝘢𝘭𝘭 food in Japan too. The food is dirt cheap and so much better quality
Yeah but their eggs don't have salmonella and bird flu.
If you want that in there you gotta pay extra
Imagine the crazy quality egg you get in Japan for basic american egg money.
I forgot that the us is one of the few countries that washes the eggs and as a result they have to be refridgerated, its weirs for me to just see them out on the floor at room temperature
This is one of those neat factoids that isn't entirely true.
Japan does wash and refrigerate its eggs, just not all eggs and brands and groceries (it's not a law).
Refrigerated and unrefrigerated eggs side-by-side
Refrigerated eggs
Most of the low salmonella incident rate comes from a higher inspection rate of egg producers and, here's the fun one, a higher rate of raw egg ingestion, leading to faster report and response times for when there is contamination.
I was convinced Japan also washed their eggs. I'm confused.
Also I'm curious about why Americans are really squeamish about people eating any egg products that haven't been fully sterilized by cooking, while others generally aren't scared of it, even if they're in a country that washes eggs just like the US.
In the US, people don't even taste their cake batter to check the amount of sugar before cooking it; in Canada, a summer isn't whole until you've made strawberry mousse (ingredients: strawberries, egg whites, sugar; eaten raw). Perplexing. Is it riskier in the US, or is the risk equally low everywhere but Americans are really paranoid?
It's just two different strategies for avoiding salmonella. The US method has worked very well for a very long time. So much so that other countries did adopt it, at least for a time, but it requires an infrastructure that can keep the eggs refrigerated through from processing to consumer, which isn't trivial.
Japan also washes them. Just not all.
Who in America doesn't eat cake batter‽ I always heard not to but never got sick so I never listened. Also our fat asses love raw cookie dough.
Americans are really, REALLY paranoid
No - the US and Europe developed two different methods for handling salmonella.
Starting in the 1970s, the US chose to wash the eggs. The upside is that it eliminates virtually all risk. The downside is that it requires refrigeration throughout the entire supply line, but since they are refrigerated, US eggs last a lot longer; unrefrigerated eggs last about three weeks while refrigerated eggs last about 50 days.
Large portions of Europe didn't have the infrastructure to support this so the regulators instead chose to vaccinate the chickens. The upside is that no extra steps are required and no extra equipment like refrigerated trucks. The downside is that they don't last as long.
Both methods work about equally well and are both considered acceptable.
https://tellus.ars.usda.gov/stories/articles/how-we-store-our-eggs-and-why
About all the wrong things
My eggs better not be dirty! My eggs are too expensive! I need to buy GUNS! ...He may be a felon but at least he's not a brown woman.
Why would you wash them?
They often end up with bits of stuff stuck to them while they're wet, like feathers, bedding, etc. Poop isn't uncommon either. The same people who won't buy salmon unless it has that freshly dyed pink color, and won't buy potatoes if they aren't universally convex, balk at the bits that remind them they come from a real place and aren't just summoned into existence for their sake. Washing the eggs takes off the bits but also the 'bloom' which is the natural barrier to bacteria and the like. Hence, refrigeration.
Because the conditions that the chickens are raised in promote growth of salmonella to such a degree that they need to chlorinate the outside and scrub & wash away the cuticle. The production model for chickens is so harsh that they can't keep themselves clean or care for themselves. And the chemical companies profit off the model so there is no incentive to make chickens happier or healthier.
Because it came out of a chicken's but. Don't you wash your turds before you eat them? Jk, there's no good reason to do so.
came here to ask about this
The crazy thing I used to pay about this amount ~200 yen 11 years ago. I lived in Japan from 2010 - 2014.
Japan was largely allergic to price increases, especially as wages remained largely stagnant. Corona began to see some things slide and Russia also had an impact that, coupled with a yen weakening compared to the dollar, basically opened the floodgates on price increases. It's in the news basically every week now. Rice is double what it was a few years ago.
Japan was largely allergic to price increases
That's one way to put it. This is another https://www.nomuraconnects.com/focused-thinking-posts/japans-three-lost-decades-escaping-deflation/
I remember that one company apologizing for a ten yen price increase on ice cream.
The US consumers are getting shafted.
The us has killed more than 15 million chickens just the last few weeks. Sometimes with foam. If other countries have to do that their prices will rise too. NHK had a great documentary recently about an egg family that was doing pasture raised eggs at $1 each.
Guess they shouldn't have kept the chickens in such horrifying conditions.
It's actually kind of funny, at Aldi the price of regular eggs doubled to like $4.50, but the price of the free range eggs went up like $0.50 to $5.75. It dawned on me that the reason my egg costs have not varied that much is because I was always buying the better eggs the whole time.
Free range means they put 100k of them in a giant warehouse vs. penning them.
The eggs I'm thinking of are specifically "pasture raised" (the blue box). But you are thinking of "cage free." In the US "free range" requires access to some amount outdoor space per hen.
I haven always been buying “good eggs” but pasture raised are actually cheaper than battery at my local grocery the last few times I’ve gone. Kinda crazy.
Foam? I thought that was the most unethical method of killing them. Should be banned.
I get local (I think free-range, but don't recall) for 400 yen/10. I think "regular" eggs are about the same (edit: same price as in your pic) up here in tohoku
What’s the average wage in $ in Japan compared to the states?
They’re mocking us
We deserve it
Now I'm really craving some boiled eggs... Fortunately they're worth around $3 USD here for a dozen!
Don't worry. All the savings on eggs are destroyed by 2000 yen strawberries. And rice is incredibly high right now, up about double in the last year.
To be fair though, February 10 is not exactly strawberry season. So that blame in part goes to this annoying "nature" dude, who came up with "seasons" and shit just to raise prices.
The general point is true, though. Same with apples right now... you look away one second, they jump from 200 to 400円 each 😐
At least (well, debatable) the fruit don't shrink away at the same time like all the other goods.
A ton are actually grown in hot-houses in northern Japan as well to support the off-season time.
This is what the ¥862 strawberries look like.
Just got these from the grocery store and they're like the size of an apple.
They look great! Now I want even more strawberries...
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