Egging houses is just too expensive these days
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The shocking spike in egg prices may mark the final blow to an age-old tradition: egging someone's house.
Why it matters: Once upon a time, people used to throw eggs at houses as a prank — because, well, it's really hard to clean up and, hey, isn't that funny?!
The big picture: If anecdotal evidence is any indication, the kids these days have moved on.
- "We can't even egg houses no more Eggs so damn expensive," one person wrote on X.
- "Haven't seen eggs for a while, but the house down the street got TP'd hard last year," one user wrote on a Reddit thread about how no one's getting egged.
- "No way not when a dozen eggs are the cost of a weeks rent," one person wrote on Threads.
Zoom in: "It's not as common as it used to be," knower-of-all-things ChatGPT helpfully tells us. "Pranks like egging houses, cars or people still happen, especially around Halloween, but a lot of kids today are more into online pranks or social media challenges."
Threat level: Security cameras may have dealt the initial dizzying blow to the tradition of egging.
- The possibility of getting caught and confronted is much higher when you've got a Ring camera staring you in the face.
By the numbers: The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently projected that egg prices will spike 41% in 2025, compared with 2024, amid a bird flu outbreak.
- Prices have come down in the last few weeks but are expected to tick up again as Easter approaches.
State of play: It's not just kids who hurled eggs when it was still cheap.
- Protestors and pranksters have a long history of throwing eggs at politicians and celebrities.
- "Egging has the benefit of administering shock and disgust without inflicting any real pain," The Cut wrote in 2019.
Yes, but: Someone recently egged a Tesla Cybertruck in an apparent protest against Elon Musk's political actions with the Trump administration.
- Tesla stores and vehicles have been the target of vandalism in recent weeks.
The bottom line: Prank inflation is real.
