Saturday, August 10, 2013

Masked farmers angrily scramble 200,000 eggs

And do you know pourquoi?

Because in France 100,000 eggs is not un oeuf.

And to protest EU directive regulating the health of chickens affecting cost of production while holding price of eggs low.

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13 comments:

edutcher said...

Maybe that would have made a better Lone Ranger movie than the one with Captain Sparrow.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

I was going to have a bowl of cereal for breakfast but now I've changed my mind.

Shouting Thomas said...

Translation of article...

Masked farmers want government subsidies by not government price fixing.

ndspinelli said...

"You have to break some eggs to make an omelet."

Fr Martin Fox said...

Because in France 100,000 eggs is not un oeuf.

Brilliant!

Dust Bunny Queen said...

Nothing new under the sun. Purposely creating shortages to drive up prices.

Economic interventionism by the government almost always creates price spikes and shortages. Ethanol anyone?

Phil 314 said...

"You have to break some eggs to make an omelet."

A very BIG omelet.

Phil 314 said...

On ne saurait faire une omelette sans casser des oeufs.

ndspinelli said...

Phil, I see that omelet was 145k eggs. If these Frogs had some class and empathy they could have made an omelet for thousands, gotten some great publicity, and broken the world record. Viva la France, My ass!

The Crack Emcee said...

Miserable place to live. Absolutely miserable.

My talks with you guys have inspired me to tell my musical story over at my spot, if anybody's interested.

It's better than France - and I might include some shit I did while over there.

Because, once again, I'm talking to you guys.

You're frustratingly inspirational,...

Bleach Drinkers Curing Coronavirus Together said...

At a nearby co-op I actually bought one of those huge, green emu eggs - which, I'm told, equate to ten or twelve regular egg servings, and therefore to as many omelets.

I still await the courage, inclination and reason to do so. In the meantime, I'm told that it might, under refrigeration, stay good indefinitely.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

@ Rhythm

Boil it. Just THINK of the massive deviled egg you could make!

Synova said...

I couldn't tell from the article if the price of eggs was set by the government or not.

"Because, once again, I'm talking to you guys.

You're frustratingly inspirational,...
"

I find that I need people to disagree with in order to be the most creative. But the disagreement has to be close enough to cause, oh, wave interactions, you know, dissonance or better yet that thrumming when the interference patterns only sometimes meet up. If it's too great a difference in opinion it's hard to get beyond "That's stooopid!"