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Aldi: 9 Eggs 99c

  • 29-08-2015 11:31am
    #1
    snubbleste
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    From 30/08
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  • #2
    vicwatson
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    BAKE !


  • #3
    the groutch
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    Not free range, pass.


  • #4
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Ooooooh the egg snobs have arrived:pac:


  • #5
    Soarer
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    the groutch wrote: »
    Not free range, pass.

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


  • #6
    Dozen Wicked Words
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,325 ✭✭✭✭Dozen Wicked Words


    vicwatson wrote: »
    Ooooooh the egg snobs have arrived:pac:

    More to do with ethics than snobbery I'd have thought.


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  • #7
    yellow hen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭yellow hen


    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 :(


  • #8
    mikeym
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    Bargain :cool:


  • #9
    fartingforfun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 77 ✭✭fartingforfun


    Know for a fact!
    Have see "Free range eggs" sold in farmers market, taken out of Tesco 24 value pack and then put in 6 pack box then sold as free range at a premium.
    Its just a scam, get the best price you can, never mind the marketing BS, all eggs are the same.


  • #10
    yellow hen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,030 ✭✭✭yellow hen


    fartingforfun wrote: »
    Know for a fact!
    Have see "Free range eggs" sold in farmers market, taken out of Tesco 24 value pack and then put in 6 pack box then sold as free range at a premium.
    Its just a scam, get the best price you can, never mind the marketing BS, all eggs are the same.

    One crook is hardly representative of everyone.


  • #11
    Gumbo
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 39,801 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    fartingforfun wrote: »
    Know for a fact!
    Have see "Free range eggs" sold in farmers market, taken out of Tesco 24 value pack and then put in 6 pack box then sold as free range at a premium.
    Its just a scam, get the best price you can, never mind the marketing BS, all eggs are the same.

    That's not exactly a good eggsample is it now?


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  • #12
    fartingforfun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 77 ✭✭fartingforfun


    kceire wrote: »
    That's not exactly a good eggsample is it now?

    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!


  • #13
    UsedToWait
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭UsedToWait


    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


  • #14
    fartingforfun
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 77 ✭✭fartingforfun


    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

    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.


  • #15
    bored_newbie
    Registered Users Posts: 806 ✭✭✭bored_newbie


    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.


  • #16
    UsedToWait
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,273 ✭✭✭UsedToWait


    bored_newbie wrote: »
    I'm glad you didn't go OTT.

    Ah maybe i did by Godwining the thread so quickly, but it's an emotive subject, particularly of you've seen it up close...


  • #17
    Skuxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,373 ✭✭✭Skuxx


    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!!


  • #18
    Soarer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,925 ✭✭✭Soarer


    Auschwitz for animals?

    You, my friend, should be ashamed of yourself.


  • #19
    frazzledhome
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,278 ✭✭✭frazzledhome


    Any thought for the farmer trying make a few bob out of these eggs?


  • #20
    caviardreams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,615 ✭✭✭caviardreams


    The best price for free range eggs that I have found is Applegreen - 8 large (usually approx 70g each, so they are large!) eggs for €2 - worth paying extra for imho.


  • #21
    ErinGoBrath
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,346 ✭✭✭ErinGoBrath


    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.


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  • #22
    degsie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,750 ✭✭✭degsie


    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.


  • #23
    arch20000
    Registered Users Posts: 132 ✭✭arch20000


    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!!


  • #24
    Red Silurian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,715 ✭✭✭Red Silurian


    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


  • #25
    johndaman66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,097 ✭✭✭johndaman66


    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.


  • #26
    Yawns
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 4,255 ✭✭✭Yawns


    Double the life, double the price?

    :)


  • #27
    enda1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,166 ✭✭✭enda1


    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...


  • #28
    Crumbs868
    Closed Accounts Posts: 438 ✭✭Crumbs868


    Those who say there is widespread fraud should read this article involving an Irish egg farmer. While it may go on it's taken very serious by the authorities

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7421442/Man-jailed-for-selling-millions-of-battery-eggs-as-free-range.html


  • #29
    AMKC
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,315 ✭✭✭✭AMKC
    Ms


    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.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #30
    snubbleste
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 31,117 ✭✭✭✭snubbleste


    AMKC wrote: »
    The best value free range eggs I have got are 24 eggs for €3 at a local butchers.
    Sounds too cheep to be true.
    How do you know they were free range apart from the label?


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  • #31
    AMKC
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    Ms


    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.

    Live long and Prosper

    Peace and long life.



  • #32
    caviardreams
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    I don't understand people saying you wouldn't know the difference in a blind taste test etc. Most people don't buy FR for the perceived difference in taste, it's about the ethics of the situation.


  • #33
    yellow hen
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    Sounds too cheep to be true.
    How do you know they were free range apart from the label?

    No, my neighbour sells a dozen for €1.60 too. Chucks graze her garden all day long.


  • #34
    snubbleste
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    yellow hen wrote: »
    No, my neighbour sells a dozen for €1.60 too. Chucks graze her garden all day long.
    Are they all yellow?


  • #35
    vicwatson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,404 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    snubbleste wrote: »
    Are they all yellow?

    Only the middle !


  • #36
    pancuronium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭pancuronium


    I have no problems with the price as for free range.... its B'S.... eggs are eggs who cares how there raised if your that against / concerned about it go vegetarian or better again vegan....


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  • #37
    Knine
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    pancuronium wrote: »
    I have no problems with the price as for free range.... its B'S.... eggs are eggs who cares how there raised if your that against / concerned about it go vegetarian or better again vegan....

    I care how they are raised because I have morals. I only buy free range eggs. I am vegetarian.


  • #38
    pancuronium
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 181 ✭✭pancuronium


    Knine wrote:
    I care how they are raised because I have morals. I only buy free range eggs. I am vegetarian.


    Good for you ;)


  • #39
    Shelflife
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    Getting back to the bargain side of things !!

    We have been selling 18 medium eggs for €1.99 since June in Costcutters in Balla in Mayo.

    So 99c for 9 eggs isnt exactly setting the world alight. Problem is people are blinded by the hype that aldi/lidl are world beaters when they really arent.

    Shop around folks theres great value to be had in your local store as well !


  • #40
    Skuxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,373 ✭✭✭Skuxx


    pancuronium wrote: »
    I have no problems with the price as for free range.... its B'S.... eggs are eggs who cares how there raised if your that against / concerned about it go vegetarian or better again vegan....

    Or how about I spend the extra few cents and buy free range eggs and meat because that's my choice!

    I'd hate to hear your views on fairtrade coffee and the likes!! Is that bull**** too? Coffee is coffee, Who cares about the people who produce it!


  • #41
    Ted_YNWA
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    good offer.

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  • #42
    Blade
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    Going way off topic, you know the deal, take it or leave it, thread closed


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