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Interesting. Here's my source. Do you still have yours?

I tried to check whether chicken or eggs is more expensive. I found something giving the average price of both, but it measured chicken by weight and eggs by the dozen, and it didn't give the weight of the eggs. They seem to be similar though.

First of all, I think that chart contains a programming error. Surely column 4 is supposed to be column 2 divided by column 3? That would be 23.9 for eggs, not 27.7. That's still 4% higher for eggs than for chicken, but that's a small number (nor is 20% a big number).

Second, kilograms of food is a silly metric. Maybe it's OK as a first pass when comparing meat to meat, but eggs and milk are not meat (and if you care about a 20% difference, a first pass is not sufficient). We should be measuring calories or perhaps protein. I believe that chicken loses half... (read more)