The kid is having a birthday party, so you go out an order a cake for $35.
Then you turn around on the internet bitching about the price of eggs.
3 eggs @ $6/dozen(high side)
$1.25 for cake mix
$1.25+/- for the frosting pre-made
A little oil, a little water
Cake = under $5
STFU about the price of eggs will ya'll???
But buy that gawddam $15/lb. beef!!! Idiots.
The thing about birthday cakes is you can just go in a buy one whenever you want. They don't check or anything.
Cosco and WalMart always have birthday cakes available and they're both pretty good too.
Pretty easy to just bake a frickin' cake from scratch, tbh. Saves a lot of money.
Damn, eggs here are not that high. Haven’t seen one place out of eggs either.
Rex, birthday cakes have been out of control for a while now. The last couple years instead us buying a big 8” round cake we buy one half the size… almost looks like a personal size cake and everyone gets a sliver. Cakes not good for ya anyway…. Less is better.
$8.89 for 18 here in MS. Still too high (this is a complaint thread after all).
I just ordered a chicken and an egg from Amazon.
I'll let you know.
johnnydoom Still too high
Ok, tell me why? And how anyone can figure that making any sense. Just because they have perennially been dirt cheap?
But no one complains when they buy a new vehicle for $50K that used to cost under $4K. Does anyone complain about the cost of a pack of gum today? C'mon.....eggs are cheap at $6/dozen. Even at $8.
Yes, eggs are eggs....and vehicles are vehicles....to me.
Par4QC no one complains when they buy a new vehicle for $50K
I've been complaining about car, and particularly pickup prices for many years. I'm driving a Scion iM because I refused to pay car prices as they have been over the past 15 years, not because it is what I really want to drive. The still too high comment on eggs was meant to be tongue-in-cheek, if I really thought that I would not buy them. There are plenty of other things to eat.
Everything costs too much. Get off my lawn.
Just have to figure the total cost of a meal(breakfast?) with eggs. They would be a cheap item even at these prices. IF eating at home.
My wife used to love the 'ready to eat' bacon....did not want to fry the raw, just nuke a few seconds. I noticed it last time as I was passing it by....used to be around $4.99/pkg.. Now was almost $13!!
Eggs are still cheap. They used to be around $1.69.
I'll bet no one's complaining about bacon though, so I'm off base. 
Par4QC Does anyone complain about the cost of a pack of gum today?
I complained to my wife the other week about that. We’re in line and she grabs a little container of gum. It was like $4.50… ( quite possibly more than the eggs we bought). I was shocked…. I said.” WTF…$4.50 for fuckin gum???” She ignores me
Youse guys are getting hosed down there in the land of (almost) free.
And here I thought he was gonna bring down the cost of groceries instead of wrecking the economy.
My wife was at the grocery store today and said eggs were $10/18. They're cheaper at Costco, when they have them.
And thankfully, we no longer need those kid's birthday cakes.
