The US, grappling with an egg shortage, is reaching out to Lithuania for egg exports after Finland declined. The situation has prompted ridicule online.

    • oce 🐆
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      81 month ago

      You know it’s AI because of the waist sizes.

  • Optional
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    581 month ago

    Has the US even said thank you?!

    Tell us to take a long walk off a short pier, Lithuania!

  • fox2263
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    281 month ago

    Surely it’s easier to import from land neighbours? Oh…you’ve pissed them off?

    • @[email protected]
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      61 month ago

      Trump right now: They do not want to send their eggs to us? Fine, I will just conquer them and send it by myself.

  • oce 🐆
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    131 month ago

    In before, Trump promises military help in exchange for eggs.

  • @[email protected]
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    161 month ago

    Seriously? This is just getting sad at this point. Look, you could eat anything else. Literally anything. Why are they so obsessed with fucking eggs? Is it because someone stupid made it a campaign promise?

    • @[email protected]
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      201 month ago

      Your missing the point. It’s less about eggs than it is at showing the world how durable and reliable USA is, that it can overcome every problem. The hilarious irony is what it is now showing is how fragile and weak the US has become now that it’s alienated it’s allies. Unable to even cope with a tiny egg problem because the world is turning it’s back. I’m living in America and yet I’m cheering this on, so bizarre.

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        Unable to even cope with a tiny egg problem because the world is turning it’s back.

        Tbf, eggs are perishable and thus not the ideal thing to transport for multiple weeks on a ship. There are multiple problems here, it’s not just the world turning its back.

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      51 month ago

      partially. And partially because it’s used in making so many things like bread and mayonnaise and so on.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 month ago

        Yeah, and I get that, but comparatively, it’s very low volume of eggs/loaf. Even at the nearly 3x price hike we’ve experienced, it shouldn’t make a whole lot of issues for bread companies. Sure, mayo would get hit hard but that’s another thing that really shouldn’t be that hard to live without.

        • federal reverseM
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          What kind of bread needs eggs? Are you talking about cake and donuts? Even so, in many recipes, eggs can be replaced by things like linseed/chia, bananas, or bean water (“aquafaba”). I’d actually expect American food manufacturers to be price-conscious enough to have cut such corners a long time ago.

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          31 month ago

          I mean, bread and mayo is like . . the foundations of civilization. For me. Personally. So - those aren’t going to be lived without at least for now.

          But just based on stupid internet searching, the number I’m seeing is 300 million eggs per day for bread. That’s a lot of 19% highers.

          The actual number might be quite different, but I’m assuming that’s probably not that far off.

  • @[email protected]
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    31 month ago

    Donald Cuck and company probably think bringing down egg prices will solve all their problems.

  • Endymion_Mallorn
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    Why are we asking for this? Just let the flu work itself out, deal with our costs, and focus on domestic production. Eggs are getting thrown out still. And those imports won’t save anyone who’s actually starving.

    • @[email protected]
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      131 month ago

      I bet they’re asking only to be able to say “see? Nobody helps us. Why should we defend them?”

      • Endymion_Mallorn
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        I don’t think their thoughts go that far in advance. But yes, that’s how it’ll be sold in six months to a year when our chicken populations stabilize. For me though, this shouldn’t even be a matter for the government, if it’s going to happen at all. The egg producers should be doing this as part of their private enterprise, not the government. Eggland’s Best, Goldhen, and the like could handle it. I don’t want the government trying to do something that should be left to the free market.

  • ssillyssadass
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    51 month ago

    That was the immediate thought I had. The US is going around like a beggar asking for eggs, it’s pathetic.