Three eggs a day? In this economy!?
Trump is going to bring the egg price down any day now
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Egg in a hole is the new avocado toast
Wait how expensive are eggs in the USA? In Germany I pay 3.50 Euros (3.65$) for a dozen organic eggs. Make that 2.20 for non-organic not free-range
I was at the grocery store yesterday $6 a dozen was the lowest price one they had
$8.99 for 12 in California
The average dozen is about 3 USD
2 daily eggs, give or take, is about 30 usd a month
So they have to be a total destitute to not reach that in a month given the complexities on preparing the eggs (iev boiling). Ironic, given that they seem to have a good internet connection and a device for it
I think your math is off. At 3$/dozen 2 eggs a day is 1doz/6 days 30/6 =5 5x3 = 15$/month
The reason it hurts when egg prices go up is because eggs were (and are still) some of the most cost-effective protein (especially as a whole protein) you can buy and eggs are in everything.
That’s the average in (early) 2024. With bird flu the current commodity price is 7/dozen and expected to rise. The joke above was meant to reference the sudden and alarming spike in egg prices. Without public health intervention things could get pretty bad.
This guy gets it
I got curious and asked chatgpt to calculate things for me. It suggests that if doozens of eggs cost you more than 5$ you can save money if you raise your own chicken.
In the first year, considering initial costs for setup and equipment, you may not save much—perhaps only $10 to $50. However, after the first year, the ongoing costs (mainly feed) could result in savings of $50 to $100 annually for each hen you keep.
Chickens get sick extremely easy and require a LOT of time for extra care and maintenance of their boxes.
For an amateur, the first years will be as much if not harder.
But my guess is if someone can’t make the 30 USD a month it takes to eat 2 daily eggs, they surely are not struggling for free time
Growing up we had 4 egg laying hens. We were swimming in eggs. Literally had to plan meals and baking and whatnot around how many eggs we had. We fed them to our dogs. Granted, it was just my mom and I, but damn we had eggs.
This is what is now called a keto diet. Eggs, due to high protein, work as an appetite suppressant for several hours. Sugar causes cravings in a few.
There was never, among other things, a high population of obese people until the recommendation of the low fat diet (pyramid diet). Usually you would just see them at carnivals.
I’ve gone back to the 60’s diet several years ago. Lost 95 lbs, have increased energy levels, feel great.
10/10 recommend
The wine is probably 500 Calories in carbs though. Edit: in addition to the alcohol.
True, but I don’t drink alcohol unless it’s a dry wine, or a low carb seltzer.
Low calorie seltzers dont exist. They just aren’t required to include alcohol in the Calorie count. One ounce of pure alcohol is about 250 Calories.
I could 100% live on this diet. It is probably almost as healthy as I eat now.
Would be more efficient if she’d also smoke 30 cigarettes a day.
It’s the 70s. The cigarettes are implied haha
my wife and I tried this for a couple weeks and it works but I’d recommend putting the steak at lunchtime or breakfast if you’re at all active before dinner.
I nearly passed out when I tried to exercise before dinner steak. Next time I had the steak for lunch and was A OK.
When is it “neccessary” to poach an egg instead of hard boil? I guess the 70s was a strange time. It was half a century ago and no one had computers or cell phones back then. I think people sat around and played monopoly.
One bottle a day per person. Boooo. Maybe get the double sized bottle then. The cheap ones they sell at the drugstore. And drinking wine and coffee in the same meal, nice. Maybe mix them together. It says chablis only, a regional subset of chardonays. Seems a little bit strict-- I again blame the 70s.
OK damnit, I’m in with you OP. First one to -5 pounds (or death) wins. Shall we bet?
Winner gets the others leftover eggs
I have to forfeit. just went to 3 stores, no eggs to be had till wednesday I heard. I guess you win, and you get all my leftover eggs.
I think the poaching was only mentioned cause it’s in vogue and it had to make the reader feel bougie.
I would sub out a decent bottled in bond bourbon for the wine. But overall I approve of the diet.
ah yes, the trembling alcoholic diet
tbf when I was young and single and would go out 4 times a week I was the skiniest I’ve ever been
When I was 20 I ate pizza and drank soft drinks every day for two years straight and I was fine. Having the youth and body that allows you to make tons of mistakes is great.
It’s not only that. The acohol diet is real. We go out and drink drink drink, puke, no sleep, work work work. I was living out of 1 sandwich a day and It was fine. Of course my body allowed me to do this lol, nowdays if you ask me out past 8pm I think you are insane
Young is doing a lot of lifting.
Just as I never had to when I was young…
I was always skinny, no matter my diet or exercise etc. until I turned 30. I’m a bit above normal now, not fat but got some stuff to tug on. Looking back at photos from my crazy party years is scary, almost feels like a miracle that I’m still alive. I was so damn skinny and had almost green skin colour, just sickly looking. That’ll definitely come and bite me in the ass in older days.
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On a single bottle of wine?
That’s why theyre trembling.
Wine + coffee
But you would build resistance to both over about three weeks.
Very similar to The Drinking Man’s Diet.
I must add, the gas I would produce on this diet would for sure violate the Geneva Suggestions
Geneva Suggestions
Found the account of US government
No, they now consider them the Geneva aggressions. As in how dare those Genoese tell us not to do something, we should invade Sweden over it. /s
username checks out.
Sgt Johnson: “Master Chief, use the space lasers!”
John: “wookie battle cry”
“We highly recommend gassing civilians indiscriminately is like probably not really the best idea.”
My uncle has an enforced limit on deviled eggs at family gatherings for similar reasons.
Found the Canadian. “It’s never a war crime the first time”.
Clearly the key to success is how hard-boiled the eggs are.
I was a little curious why the egg has to be hard boiled.
Because it’s harder to digest! The point is, you use more calories digesting a hard boiled egg than you get from it. Or so the theory was at the time.
Well that’s just fucking nonsense. At least the celery myth starts on the premise that celery has 15 calories a serving instead of an egg, a food literally packed with all the calories and protein you need to make a baby chicken.
Does celery have a lot of protein? TIL
No, but it also isn’t calorie-neutral, or calorie-reducing like fad diets claim…
That’s nuts. I just assumed it was because hardboiled eggs are cooked without additional fat
The thing is, flavor wasnt invented until about 1980
Which is wild considering the spice trades of the… (according to the internet, prehistory through modernity, so that’s a thing…)
I have to assume that 1950s housewives were so thoroughly drugged up that they couldn’t tell the difference…
I know that they made everything in jello/aspic because gelatin was formerly a luxury, like sugar and basically any spices, so they went a bit batshit when they got cheap access…
I’ve been watching Sandwiches of History on YT lately, and noticing how much anchovy paste he goes through. I’m certain that 100 years ago, people were smoking so many cigarettes they had no sense of tastes except for the strongest concentrates.
Anchovy paste makes sense, much like using soy sauce or fish sauce or miso paste or even tomato paste does. You just don’t use a ton of it. It doesn’t necessarily taste fishy, but it adds a lot of umami and salt. It improves most soups, for example.
No butter or margarine maybe?
Replace the egg by a croissant, add a cigarette after each meal. Become condescending. Move to France. Blend in.
Replace the egg by a œuf.
So passé, it’s ecig now.
Imagine that being your fuel for every day. Oh, and while you’re at it, wrangle one or more small [animal-like] children all day, keep the entire house clean, and dinner better be ready when I get home–it’s been a hard day at work. And stop being such a bitch, eh?
The booze was less of a diet aid and more of an anti-psychotic, I assume.
This diet was easy with a health dose of amphetamines. Wine took the edge off.
With a healthy enough dose, you can speedrun this by cutting the eggs, coffee, wine, and steak.
That’s what I’m talking about!
Breakfast:
Lunch:
Dinner:
The finn special.
Perkele
France?
If this was Balkan, it would have been espresso.
Finland. Coffee, cigarette, and vodka. Called blöro
Ahh, so not apricot brandy… Oh well.
Enjoy the sauna!
Shit. Where you getting the money for so many cigarettes? Best I can do is drag a two pack of Swisher Sweets out over the week.
Such a foodie
I take the smaller glass is “little water”
Good point, the cigarettes were probably a given.
This is clearly fake. No mention of cocaine anywhere
I believe back then that was routine with your daily multivitamin
Pretty sure it was all crack back then.
70s: Freebase 80s: Crack
I was under the impression that crack was a cheap mrans of freebase. 70s were powder, but also mostly “diet pills” (if you’re lucky it was amphetamines or methylphenidate, everything else was even harder on your body)
Yup, freebase walked in the 70s before crack could shutter shamble with a reduced fare card.
Didn’t the CIA invent crack in the 80s?
Did the cia invent crack? I was under the impression the cia was just selling huge amounts of cocaine to the inner cities and it was the ingenuity of the drug dealers that invented it
I would believe either. But the fact is the CIA dumped loads of illegal substances on poor communities and may it may not have dropped a recipe or two along the way because someone in power may have wanted a reason to start a war on poor people of color.
That’s what I heard, at least.
That one really works
You’re not gonna stop at 3 days though
It’s from the 70s, not the 80s
Basically yes.
Bless her. If someone that really ‘loves and appreciates wine’ but ‘hates eggs’ finds that a complete nightmare, then I (who am the opposite) should leave it alone.
She’d absolutely cooked the shit out of those eggs, though. I’d probably hate them too if I only got ‘yellow cooked until it’s a powdery dust’ as my options.
They aren’t done until you get an even green layer around the yolk.
OK but also boiled eggs are fine. Like I don’t hate them with seasoned salt, but fried and scrambled are the way to go
I laughed way too hard at this.
I love wine, but it is a depressant, and without a more normal amount of food to help blunt the effects of alcohol, I think I was experiencing a little bit of that “sad drunk girl crying in the bathroom” syndrome many of us observed (or experienced, no judgment!) in college.
I feel this without the alcohol so maybe I should try this diet and lose some weight at least.
OK that’s hilarious and also it puts a bit of a contextual spin on mid century misogyny. Every description of the mental and emotional effects of that diet reminded me of how all that was the stereotype of young professional women in the 70s
Not a veggie in sight, so your whole digestive motility was based on alcoholic diarrhea. (Been there…)
So fashionable to shit yourself in public in white dresses.
Also nothing but protein and a smidge of fat. The only carbs you get is the little bit of sugar in the wine, but considering it recommends dry wine that’s not much. I bet you’d have the worst headache of your life by day three.
A lot of fat too. Eggs and steak are high fat, especially high saturated fat.
As God intended
Unspoken component of this diet was an array of experimental opioids and uppers that were handed out to housewives like tic-tacs.
Mother’s Little Helper
Unlike now, when the target demographic for pharmaceutical stimulants is mainly children.
Coffee candies were promoted to acclimate children to the taste of coffee (and the bitter caffeine molecule)!
I don’t know why you’ve been downvoted but you’re right
