Ah at least it is not turnips, heed the advice of our glorious leadership and get out of this downward spiral by working more hours folks and be thankful we are not in a recession otherwise things would be bad. /s

Mostly because of greedy executives.

Margarine?

Who the hell is buying margarine?

Nobody's buying it, pretty clear signal the prices have to be raised!

I live on eggs buying 60 count flats .I'm always surprised how it can change from $23 to $14 in a matter of weeks.

Exactly, and we know that egg producers made record profits at least in the states.

Spinning a supposed supply crisis into profits should be illegal.

I wasn’t aware there was a vegetable oil shortage.

Yup, like with the meat industry during COVID.

The middle men blame everything else yet somehow continue to have record prrofits and control the industry.

A lot of vegetable oil in the U.K. used to come from Russia and Ukraine

Well, idk about Ukraine, but at least Russia’s supply of vegetables seems to be growing rapidly

Are seagull eggs edible?

They keep laying them in my window (One of my windows opens up onto the roof of the building next to me). I don't want to eat them because I don't enjoy eggs but it makes me wonder. Do you think the taste of cigarette butts and garbage squeezins' it passed through to the liquid seagull inside?

All eggs are edible.

Butter isn't much better in inflationary terms, it's becoming a luxury. I'd rather go without than use margarine.

Some of them only once

Those are smoked vegetables though. They make better sunflower oil.

The first time I saw the results from a GC mass spec analysis of a few different margarines was the last time I ever knowingly consumed margarine. If I see it on a list of ingredients I pick a different brand. Scary part is that was before companies dialed up the imported contents to boost profits.

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Which ones? Genuinely curious, I am not aware of any bird eggs that aren't edible (as long as they don't have bacteria on the shell, of course).

Isn’t it really popular in the UK?

I own a truck company in the states. The shipping rates were nose diving a year ago and have been back to pre pandemic rates for awhile. Meaning there was too many trucks and the competition in rates for available trucks was long gone. Fuel prices make everything go up. But supply chain problems is a load of shit and hasn’t been a problem for 8 months.

Chickens mature relatively quickly.

If you have to kill your entire flock of chickens and replace them with newly hatched chicks, they'll be laying in just over 4 months time.

Plus, if people stop buying eggs because of cost, it's not like you can store them and sell them later. So prices tend to go down faster than something that can be stored, like wheat or corn.

I figured that stuff would be banned in the UK.

I wonder what inflation is on a flexible grocery budget. If you buy protein, carbs, fiber, vitamins, all enough for a family of 4, but don't just buy the same shopping cart regardless of price.

I haven't been eating eggs for months. It's not a big deal for me. Production will catch up and prices will go down again.

How will I afford my unhealthy congealed vegetable oil now!?

https://farmandanimals.com/can-you-eat-bird-eggs/

Are All Bird Eggs Edible? Actually no, not all bird eggs should be eaten due to some birds being toxic. These birds include ones that eat insects causing the birds skin, feathers, and dander to contain the same chemical found in poison dart frogs, Batrachotoxinin-A or BTX:

Hooded Pitohui – from New Guinea. Northern Variable Pitohui – from New Guinea. Blue Capped Ifrita – From New Guinea. Little Shrikethrush – from Australia. Because these birds all sit on their eggs, even touching them would probably be a bad idea.

Other toxic birds include:

Red Warbler – from Mexico Spur-winged Goose – from Sub-Saharan Africa

That’s what I was thinking. Margarine is not food for humans. It’s a human-produced industrial lubricant.