Aldi: 9 Eggs 99c

the groutch wrote: »

Not free range, pass.

If you don't buy them, those poor chickens will have been cooped up for nothing.

vicwatson wrote: »

Ooooooh the egg snobs have arrived:pac:

Have you ever seen some of those industrial-sized chicken farms? the phrase 'headless chickens' has meaning there

fartingforfun wrote: »

A Egg is a Egg, if you where given a blind taste test between a factory farmed one and free ranged Egg you would not be able to tell the difference.
It just marketing to get you to pay more for the same product!

That's if you completely ignore where the egg cones from.
Having seen the process, I'm more then happy to pay the extra few pence, so I know I'm not supporting what is, without being completely OTT, Auschwitz for animals

UsedToWait wrote: »

That's if you completely ignore where the egg cones from.
Having seen the process, I'm more then happy to pay the extra few pence, so I know I'm not supporting what is, without being completely OTT, Auschwitz for animals

I'm glad you didn't go OTT.

fartingforfun wrote: »

its a scam, a tiny % of free range eggs are actually that, and you would not be able to taste the difference, it might make you feel better by buying "free range" but it a scam.

Putting the taste aside, I'd rather pay the small bit extra to know the chicken had a small bit of a life where it could see sunlight and breath fresh air rather then be artificially reared in a shed!

Maybe it's a scam as you say, but I hope my extra few cents is making a difference to the life of a chicken somewhere!!

fartingforfun wrote: »

its a scam, a tiny % of free range eggs are actually that, and you would not be able to taste the difference, it might make you feel better by buying "free range" but it a scam.

Nonsense! Have you a source for this claim? Farmers markets are one thing but large retailers have to ensure the product is exactly what's it's marketed as.

degsie wrote: »

This is an eggstrodinary value. Surprised that ppl are not beating their way for this great bargain. I'd eggspect some scrambling at the tills for this.

Eggsellent comment!!

My brother in law has a free range egg farm. While it's no sun holiday for the chickens e.g. short lifespan etc, it's a hell of a lot better than a battery hen farm. I'l pay a few cents extra!!

As and aside from the ethics of it all I'm not sure why people supporting the idea of free range eggs are mentioning they are a few cent extra. As far as I can see they are usually at least double the price.

Can we all stop mixing up chickens and hens please?!

The laws governing the treatment of battery hens have been quite boosted in the last years. Don't but these eggs if you don't want but if you really care about ethics I hope you also don't buy any clothes\products from Bangladesh, Pakistan, China etc.

It's easy to scream ethics when it's a difference of a euro or two. I'm sure all your ethics disappear when faced with h&m, penny's, Zara and the like...

colmtheperson wrote: »

Finally we have a retailer not charging eggstortionate prices! Now if only I could get in and out of that shop in less than 10 minutes I'd be laughing

Not sure about your local Aldi but in mine I know I can get in buy something and get out a lot quicker than in my local Lidl or Dunnes.

As for the eggs I think they are eggcellent value for money

The best value free range eggs I have got are 24 eggs for 3euro at a local butchers.
I do think when you know eggs are free range they do taste nicer but in a blind test really how many of us would be able to tell the difference.

They still have them. They get them from a local farm where the hens can walk around the yard freely. How because the eggs do be different shapes and sizes. There was a couple off weeks as well where they did not have any eggs so maybe the hens were not laying then maybe on there holiday lol.