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Weird News - Things that make you go 'hmmm'

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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 37 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Thieves poached about 100,000 eggs...

that's a lot of eggs benedict.

[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

I'd risk the blockage, and subsequent rectally destroying diarrhea, trying to eat that much eggs Benedict.

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

More importantly, how much butter are we going to have to steal to make enough hollandaise sauce?

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago

This is their leader.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

How do you fence 100k eggs??!!

[–] nightwatch_admin@feddit.nl 12 points 2 weeks ago

With the current rising cost? (Thanks Obama)
On the black market of course.

[–] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm honestly wondering if it was a hired job from a local factory, or maybe even a large producer.

There's just no way. There are obviously channels to sell farm products in large quantities but you'd need an established relationship to not trip every red flag in sight.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

That's what I thought. But maybe there are places where you can just pull up with a truckload of really cheap eggs, stick a sign on the side of the road that says "Farm Fresh Eggs" and be out of there before anyone thinks to ask where you go them.

But if places like that exist, they still seem kinda risky when there is a recent "100K eggs stolen" headline. 😂

Right, like that'll work for moving maybe a couple hundred, but not on the scale of 100,000.

[–] Podunk@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

I was always told not to count your eggs before they hatch...

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

To the moon

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why so many zeros after the decimal point? Do you deal in 1/10 cents much?

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

European. Or maybe just a programmer...

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

As a European programmer, the comma-period-decimal struggle is real.

Most higher level programming languages don't accept commas, so decimals are started by a period, and thousands can sometimes (varies by language) be separated by underscores.

For example, these are all valid number notation:

1.00
0.000001
1_000.00
1_000_000
1_0_0_0_0_0_0.0_0

If you use the final one frequently, though, your employment may experience a period too.

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Goddammit USA, you can't even commit normal crimes...!

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 2 weeks ago

"What's that got to do with the price of eggs?"

[–] TarantulaFudge@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

Why would somebody want a truck load of eggs?? Who would buy them even.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

That means each egg is worth 40 cents. A dozen being 2.40$. I thought you guys were paying 6+$ for a dozen? Or is the 40k number before the stores profit margin.

[–] Fermion@feddit.nl 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

12x $0.40= $4.80 That matches/slightly exceeds prices I've been seeing.

Your arithmetic is off by a factor of 2.

lol wtf, i guess my brain froze while i was typing this. I was thinking of a standard 6x package of eggs like i have it in my shelf but typed dozen...

[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago

a dozen 'organic' eggs being $2.40 sounds like a current producer price to a distributor. difference between that and the shelf price is profits for someone somewhere along the distribution chain.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

$4 a dozen seems to be common for the low end outside of large cities, there's definitely some weird math.

[–] higgsboson@dubvee.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

A dozen regular (not fancy) eggs are about $5 where I am.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Target accidentally gave me a dozen eggs I didn't order and I'm thinking instead pf eating them ill sell them to start a small buisness

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

These eggs are hot.

[–] niktemadur@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

It's official: eggs are the new fidget spinners.