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Egg Rule (lemmy.world)
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[–] 166 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Who names their chicken Bessie? Everyone knows Bessie is a cow's name.

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    • [–] 67 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    Takes all of 5 minutes to start a car and drive a mile and back. Nobody walks into a Costco for just eggs or brings the entire family.

    I get that you all hate cars but when you make up fantasy stories like this you just harden mind of those you must convince.

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  • [–] 93 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    There's no reason you should need to drive for that kind of stuff. Sure, it takes 5 minutes, but it's worse for your health, the environment, your wallet, and your morale.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I never said you should. Only that the above in no way describes the majority experience. It's really not that stressful in the least bit. It's a 10 minute experience with an extra wide parking spot for your f150 at one of the dozens of choices you'll have to grab your eggs.

    I am particularly lucky in that I could go to Wegmans or one of several farms within that 10 minute time frame.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    It's far closer to my hometown experience than what you describe.

    I know of 2 grocery stores there (the other half of that town is a mystery to me, probably a couple more there but it was 10 minutes just to get over the bridge, 40+ minutes in the summer, so I never went there), and they got their first supermarket in a decade about 5 years ago now, after the previous one closed 10 years before. For a town of 30,000.

    Granted, it's a summer vacation town, so it's like 60% rich people's summer homes, but everybody I've talked to who's lived in a summer town has described more or less the same experiences that I had growing up.

    When I lived there, it was a 5-7 minute drive to the closest grocery, where you could pay tourist prices, or 20 minutes to that new supermarket. Your other option was to drive to the next town over or 30 minutes by highway in the other direction.

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  • [–] 23 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Drive, a mile? To a whole hypermarket for eggs? I'd just walk down the 95 meters to the grocery store here to get those missing eggs

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

    Okay, that's still a similar effort. And I don't disagree the preferred approach. The above is absurd though. If anything it describes a more rural experience and still quite exaggerated IMO.

    The above is fantasy circle jerk material. Meme better and have a basis of truth. Those are the best memes.

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    [–] 62 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    Suburbanite in a proper suburb: "Come child, walk with me to the corner store to pick up some eggs."

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    I'm in a rural town in the USA and I have all these options available. 5 minutes away from grocery stores and restaurants, fresh produce and eggs growing in my own backyard. Room for my kids and pets to roam and no HOA and even low amounts of traffic to deal with.

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    [–] 33 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

    egg

    Was not expecting something about literal eggs.

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    [–] 27 points 2 years ago (20 children)

    Suburbs should not exist. I get Urban, i get rural, but there is absolutely nothing justifying suburban.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (20 children)

    Living within 30 minutes of my job in the city costs $3,000/month in rent for a 800sf apartment. Living within walking distance would cost $4,000 if I could even find anything to rent.

    Living an hour away costs $750/month in rent for a 1200sf trailer. My car note is $450/month and I spend about $300/month on gasoline on average. All in my rent, vehicle, and gas is half the cost of just the rent in the city.

    Yeah - there's an extra hour lost every day to the drive, but the savings comes out to around $75/hr for that commute. And I have the freedom to travel anywhere I want with my vehicle on top of that.

    So yeah, I live suburban and fuck anyone who criticizes me for making that sensible economic decision.

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    [–] 26 points 2 years ago

    USA moment in the middle

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    [–] 24 points 2 years ago*

    I've been an urban pedestrian/cyclist all my life. Unfortunately I chose a career path that means I now have to work far from a city. I just failed my driving test. I don't even want to drive. I fucking hate this so much.

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    [–] 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    What if I'm a rural non-farmer?

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    [–] 18 points 2 years ago (15 children)

    me, being broke/cheap/lazy: repeats recipe search adding keyword "eggless"

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    [–] 16 points 2 years ago (9 children)

    ...do you know how crowded Costco is on Sundays.

    As a German: I hate you.

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    [–] 14 points 2 years ago

    your chicken hasn't laid an egg? go ask your neighbor! They'll probably have some.

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    [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I live in suburbia in the US and I can walk to 3 different grocery stores from my house. If I go to the warehouse store, I will drive. Between telework, walking, and avoiding unnecessary trips to various places, I try to drive less than 1 mile per day.

    Density kinda sucks to live in, but we can all make more effort to waste less energy.

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Blood is a good replacement for eggs in recipe. Use like 4 tablespoons per egg you'd have used in your recipe.

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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Suburbanite should ideally go to their backyard garden/ chicken coop

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    And then the HOA puts a lien on your home for refusing to get rid of your chickens.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Death to HOAs.

    I still rent, unfortunately, (southern California) but at least my neighborhood doesn’t have an HOA. Those suburban sprawl super sterile neighborhoods like I grew up in in another state are just not at all attractive to live in.

    I have a pretty large garden and sometime this year will have a chicken coop, as it’s allowed here as long as no roosters. Also just bought a greenhouse kit. Eating your own food is incredible.

    !gardening@lemmy.world !balconygardening@slrpnk.net !backyardchickens@lemmy.ca !greenhouse_growers@lemmy.world

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    • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Who can even afford living in a city or on the country side? City is too expensive, and country side is cheap but there are no jobs. If you wanna have some kind of a decent-sized place for a family with kids, suburbia is a must unless you are somehow rich. Or happen to have a job that exists in the country side.

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