Yep, that's what my busybody aunt told me today. She messaged me asking if I had any eggs to sell because she had a customer wanting some but didn't have any of her own. I had actually just gotten rid of a lot, but told her I had a couple of dozen. When I talked to her in person, she told me she hoped that $2/doz was okay (it was) since I usually charge $2.50, but she only charges $1.75 and her chickens "are ALWAYS penned up and on concrete and never get on the dirt. She hopes it will be alright. I told her that you free range YOUR chickens and I guess she's okay with that!"
*facepalm*
A) She put an ad up for MY eggs on a local swap page on FB that I didn't even know about.
B) She asked me for eggs for HER customer because she was out.
Then she disses my eggs???
I get that some people don't realize the nutritional benefits of the eggs from free ranged chickens (which is why I always direct my customers to articles pertaining to such so that they can be educated). I also get that she's old-school and likes to boast that HER eggs are just like "store eggs" -minus the battery cages, because they do have a fairly nice little chicken concentration camp- But to just be so tacky about it...grrr. I just bit my tongue because I know that is just how she is, you know the type.
I didn't bother arguing about how my hens are happy and healthy, or that it is important to me to make sure my chickens have a good life instead of living like prisoners in a metal box on a cement floor forever. I didn't point out that the free-range/cage free/organic eggs are twice or 3x as high in the store as the regular ones. She's old, she's set in her ways. I'm just trying to be amused more than annoyed at this point and trying to be grateful that she did help me sell some eggs, even though I do have 1 particular customer who will buy any extra that I have.
*facepalm*
A) She put an ad up for MY eggs on a local swap page on FB that I didn't even know about.
B) She asked me for eggs for HER customer because she was out.
Then she disses my eggs???
I get that some people don't realize the nutritional benefits of the eggs from free ranged chickens (which is why I always direct my customers to articles pertaining to such so that they can be educated). I also get that she's old-school and likes to boast that HER eggs are just like "store eggs" -minus the battery cages, because they do have a fairly nice little chicken concentration camp- But to just be so tacky about it...grrr. I just bit my tongue because I know that is just how she is, you know the type.
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