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Eggs are so expensive that some Americans are decorating potatoes this Easter (www.cbc.ca)
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[–] rando895@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 4 weeks ago

It would be better to compare the cost using average wages, or even minimum wage. Where I live in the west we could get about 282kg of eggs permonth on minimum wage (pretax), and in some Chinese provinces (minimum wage varies) you could get 340kg.