Eggs are a food staple: they are consumed often and in larger quantities. They are eaten directly, but also included as ingredients in a lot of food. So this means that the price of eggs directly impacts your budget/ability to buy them directly, as well as for goods made with them. Same with milk, potatoes, wheat, etc. Their prices tend to be a sort of broad economic barometer.
And we actually do use hamburgers as a metric. There’s the Big Mac Index for example. It’s used to measure purchasing power between different countries.
Am I the only one who just puts the eggs in the cart and then pays for them?
Why is this the metric and not the price of coffee or hamburger? That shit is expensive.
The chain to get eggs in your local store is shorter and they are easier to produce/collect.
Coffee is imported, hamburger needs to be processed, so more labour is required.
Those would be my guesses.
Eggs are a food staple: they are consumed often and in larger quantities. They are eaten directly, but also included as ingredients in a lot of food. So this means that the price of eggs directly impacts your budget/ability to buy them directly, as well as for goods made with them. Same with milk, potatoes, wheat, etc. Their prices tend to be a sort of broad economic barometer.
And we actually do use hamburgers as a metric. There’s the Big Mac Index for example. It’s used to measure purchasing power between different countries.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index