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542458today at 4:10 PM3 repliesview on HN

Surprisingly, apparently Americans average 279 eggs per year per person or 24 per month.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/02/28/why-ameri...

(This is not a comment making any judgements about cost or the state of the economy, I was just surprised to find it that high)


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red-iron-pinetoday at 4:23 PM

cuz eggs are in breakfast sandwiches, are ingredients in pastries, act as binders in things like meatloaf or fried chicken, etc. etc.

silisilitoday at 5:32 PM

That sounded high to me as well(probably because I rarely eat eggs), but then I remembered my parents who each eat two per day which isn't that uncommon I guess.

baud147258today at 4:30 PM

Maybe if you include all the eggs in processed food like cookies or cakes and in restaurants or other catering operations you reach that number? And eggs consumed at home could still be around 12 per person?