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[–] adarza@lemmy.ca 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Thieves poached about 100,000 eggs...

that's a lot of eggs benedict.

[–] drzoidberg@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] qupada@fedia.io 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 15 points 10 months ago

This is their leader.

[–] Podunk@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

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

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

To the moon

[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

European. Or maybe just a programmer...

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months 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 10 months 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.

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago

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 10 months 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 10 months 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 10 months ago

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

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months 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

[–] TarantulaFudge@startrek.website 2 points 10 months ago

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