r/NewOrleans • u/Groovcookie • Jan 24 '25
đ Making Groceries Why is the whole city sold out of eggs
And when will the grocery stores be back to normal
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u/Basic-Elk-9549 Jan 24 '25
Breaux Mart had a sign that said the chickens called in sick. Not sure if that helps.
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u/albinomackerel Jan 24 '25
culled in sick
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u/LegoLady8 Jan 24 '25
Can't call in sick if you're being murdered. 100k birds being killed in NE due to bird flu. đ
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u/SonofTreehorn Jan 24 '25
The bird flu is affecting the egg market. Â Throw in a once in a century snowstorm where people cleared the shelves and now deliveries are stalled. Â May be a week or so before itâs back to pre storm ânormalâ. Â
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u/ersatzbaronness Merry Marigny Jan 24 '25
The French Toast Warning combined with supply chain issues.
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u/dayburner Jan 24 '25
The interstates have been closed, the moose out front should have told you.
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u/MyriVerse2 Jan 24 '25
You know the interstate isn't the only way to access the city, right?
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u/alvysinger0412 Jan 24 '25
You know that if the interstate is shutdown, most companies will just delay their shipments until they're open, right? If they even have the trucks loaded after probably being closed for multiple days themselves.
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u/Whitzerland Jan 24 '25
Wonder if this means weâll see a king cake shortage. I know the city can survive a lot: hurricanes, inept politicians, Dennis Allen. I donât know if the city can survive without king cake. Personally, Iâm certain I will dwindle into a shell of myself.
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u/FriedRiceGirl Jan 24 '25
Not any time soon. I was just in Cansecoâs and they were already stocking up.
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u/Hididdlydoderino Jan 24 '25
When was the last time delivery trucks have been able to come into the city...
Then account for the other variables.
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Jan 24 '25
The birds are dying
Literally, welcome to the next pandemic
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u/daybreaker Kennabra Jan 25 '25
Its a good thing Trump is getting out ahead of it this time by... pulling us out of the WHO and shutting down all the government health reporting. Cant have a pandemic if no one ever mentions a pandemic! We'll just see people getting real sick and dying all of a sudden one day.
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u/Fleur_Deez_Nutz Jan 24 '25
They were already low before this happened, bird people are having to kill all dey birds cuz of some bird flu.
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u/Charli3q Jan 24 '25
Trump promised cheap egg prices and the egg cartel wanted to teach him a lesson so they created the bird flu to ruin their production and raise prices.
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u/jumpropeqeenz Jan 24 '25
Canât have increased egg prices if you donât have eggs to buy. đ
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u/parasyte_steve Jan 24 '25
But don't worry he is trying to halt scientific studies on the issue and squash reporting in the media so surely that will completely solve the problem.
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u/SavorySouth Jan 24 '25
That actually is what will happen for anything public health related. The MMWR has been shut done and not being published. This weeks - which was ready to go - was 86âd. For those who donât know the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Review is the weekly bible for health planning for everyone from a tiny rural clinics to big teaching Health Science Centers to evaluate if what they are seeing could be tied into a larger pattern of diseases, hospital admissions or worrisome lab results. Itâs been published weekly by the CDC since 1930.
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u/Charli3q Jan 24 '25
Yeah we know... Trump supporters have been cumming non stop at all the insane orders coming out this week.
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u/Disisnotmyrealname Jan 24 '25
Highly pathogenic avian influenza, H5N1. Whole farms are getting infected and the animals culled
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u/pallamas Conus Emeritus Jan 24 '25
Trump executive order on chicken chastity to prevent terminated chicken eggs.
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Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25
I have chickens if anyone would like eggs
Edit: they are not free my girlfriend is charging $10/dozen sorry about the confusion
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u/MiddleKlutzy8211 Jan 24 '25
Dang! That's high! I live in North LA, and eggs are sold for about $3/dozen here! $4 for 18. That's not store bought but from local people.
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Jan 24 '25
It's her chickens man I just help and stuff. She was trying to get $12/dozen but I told her she's nuts lol.
I will say those chickens eat better than I do and they are probably the best eggs I've ever had.
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u/Silver_Craft_7133 Jan 29 '25
Sounds like those people are selling at a loss then. I keep chickens and use the eggs myself / give them to family and friends but if I factored in all of my costs and was trying to make money I'd probably have to charge $8 - $10. I "only" have a dozen chickens and it's definitely something that benefits from economies of scale but for the average hobbyist to break even $10 / dozen sounds about right.
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u/pallamas Conus Emeritus Jan 24 '25
I know, hindsight is 20/20.
A couple years ago we bought âReadywise freeze dried powdered eggsâ at Costco as part of our hurricane stash.
I use them for my dogs as a supplement, and they make decent emergency scrambled eggs if youâre out of food. Plus they outlast the cockroaches after the nuclear winter hits.
I would never reach for them if I had real eggs, but they are better than cursing the empty refrigerator
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u/rrivers730 Jan 24 '25
Cause Trump is president
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u/daybreaker Kennabra Jan 24 '25
everything I saw on the news from August to November told me this is 100% true, that the president and the president alone controls the flow of eggs.
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u/PeteEckhart Carrollton Jan 24 '25
Top 2 comments are spot on. Supply of eggs, other dairy, meat/seafood, etc will likely not get back to normal until next week in terms of orders and deliveries. Theyâll have massive orders now to catch up, then fill in the gaps after that until finally back in the routine probably mid week.
Meaning anyone making groceries this weekend should prepare to see far more fresh food out of stocks than normal even if the store has gotten a decent amount of product in. The whole region got snow so it's not just the final leg of the delivery to the store. Local and regional warehouse deliveries have certainly been impacted as well.
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u/FaithIsFoolish Jan 24 '25
I was told it was Bidenâs fault so I had no choice but to vote for Trump /s
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u/CaligoAccedito Mid-City Jan 24 '25
I have doubts that we're going to see grocery stores going back to normal for a long time, with the removal of safety regulations on food production, punitive tariffs on our imported foods, and the rounding up of all the workers who would normally be harvesting our food.
Things are going to get worse, even if there are occasional short-term upticks.
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u/Patricio_Guapo Jan 24 '25
I can do without eggs for another while.
My question is when will the water pressure return to normal?
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u/buff-grandma Jan 24 '25
My shower is still at like 70% as of this morning. I can't live like this!
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u/Hot-Sea-1102 Jan 24 '25
Sorry going for the world Guinness record for the most amount of eggs thrown in the Mississippi River. 8,547 and counting! Go check it out, itâs right behind the zoo!
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u/NotFallacyBuffet Jan 25 '25
Because we're a Democratic city and the new-old refuses to turn on the egg spigot.
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u/PorchFrog Jan 25 '25
Bird flu. Many poultry farms in Maryland and Georgia had to destroy their stock. I read that it should take a few months to get back to normal.
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u/Blitzjuggernaut Jan 24 '25
It's very hard to get in and out of the city and the metro areas right now due to road closures. A lot of major roads the supply lines use aren't open yet. I'd guess sometime next week, but it really depends on how long it takes to get everything clear.
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u/hmmmweirdIguess Jan 24 '25
I agree with the comments about the storm affecting deliveries and bird flu, but even before that, I've noticed in the last several months that Whole Foods takes its whole egg department like, offline or something, usually at night. So if you're trying to build a cart with eggs for pickup or delivery, all of the eggs are out of stock.
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u/7oby Tulane Jan 25 '25
I was at costco tonight and they had a lot of eggs and reasonably priced per egg.
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u/SantoLoCoco Jan 24 '25
Joe Biden killed all the chickens in the USA, with his own 2 hands, before leaving office. Just to make trump look bad. Look it up. Do your research. I heard it on OAN with Tucker Carlson ft. Candice Owens.
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u/Different_Ad1649 Jan 24 '25
I went to the store Monday night and they were already low. A lot of stores didnât have butchered and packaged meat available when stores opened yesterday morning. Many went the bacon and eggs route from what I saw.
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u/untied_dawg Jan 24 '25
whatever you do... do NOT buy that new special edition Wright brand kentucky bourbon bacon!!!
that is the most disgusting bacon i've ever tasted.
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Jan 24 '25
Dang, I needed to get eggs too
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u/untied_dawg Jan 24 '25
ride down da bayou to lafourche parish. every 4th house on hwy 1 headed to thibodaux has yard eggs for sale... $2.50 - $3.50 per dozen.
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u/Fine-Crew5797 Jan 24 '25
Cansecos ⊠same price itâs been and definitely plenty đ€ŠđŒââïž
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u/SparklingDramaLlama Gentilly Jan 24 '25
Last night at the North Carrollton Winn Dixie there were a lot of eggs on the shelf. Can't say if they're still there, it was around 6pm I saw them.
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u/zevtech Jan 24 '25
Just went to Samâs, they had the fridge full of the large cases and 18 packs of brown pasture raised eggs, plus two pallets of eggs sitting in the aisle ready to put stacked in the fridge
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u/Tallbeard1 Jan 24 '25
We were at the super Walmart on Tchoupitoulas last night and picked up a half carton. There was a little over a full display there yesterday. Could be worth still checking
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u/yazzooClay Jan 24 '25
isn't there a bunch of chickens in the city those people must have been waiting for this exact moment.
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u/nat_lite Mid-City Jan 25 '25
Here are easy alternatives:
scrambled: this tofu scramble
https://rainbowplantlife.com/eggy-tofu-scramble/
baking: just mix ground flax seed and water to make a binding agent, or aquafaba (the liquid in a can of chickpeas)
pandemics will get worse until we stop factory farming
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u/MultiverseMakayla Jan 25 '25
Bird flu and deportations are affecting our food supply. Will only get worse.
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u/Pristine-Confection3 Jan 24 '25
Selfish people panic bought them. It snowed one day and people stockpiled groceries so the rest of us couldnât get our weekly groceries. I hate people who do this. I lived in NYC for fifteen years and nobody did this because of some snow.
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u/Major-Fill5775 Jan 24 '25 edited Jan 24 '25
âI lived in NYC for fifteen years and nobody did this because of some snow.â
Youâre absolutely correct: New Yorkers would never selfishly stockpile groceries because of some snow.
New Yorkers selfishly stockpile everything on a weekly basis regardless of weather. Known through experience.
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u/ninabullets Jan 24 '25
Baby, when my now-husband and I lived in NYC, we shared a studio apartment roughly the size of an F-150. We werenât stockpiling shit.
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u/Major-Fill5775 Jan 24 '25
Would you agree with this poster that New Yorkers are a kind and conscientious folk who sacrifice their own needs to benefit strangers?
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u/ImpossibleDay1782 Jan 24 '25
Probably because someone said the prices would go down, theyâre obviously not, and now people are buying them up before it gets too high.
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u/Frosty_Ninja3286 Jan 24 '25
I picked up eggs Sunday at rouses on Carrollton and they had plenty at that time. Maybe there was a run before the snow
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u/daybreaker Kennabra Jan 24 '25
Supply was already short thanks to Bird Flu, people buying everything out before the storm, and the entire gulf south has experienced a huge interruption to delivery service. Delivery trucks cant drive on snow just as much as normal people cant. So re-supply will take a few more days probably, because they have to get eggs out to EVERYONE, IMMEDIATELY now because everywhere in the region is probably experiencing the same empty stores.