to sell them a plain omelette for Ksh 300 ($3) while a mandazi, with more ingredients in it, including the possible egg is Ksh 100 ($1) and eggs go for max Ksh 15 (15 cents).
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Eggs are always the biggest scam it seems to me. Given how easy they are to cook, and how cheap they are. In most restaurants it seems just the cost of a couple of scrambled eggs, is equivalent to what it would cost to buy a dozen of them.
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At the rate they sell theirs in this joint, they need only be in the egg business and they will cover all their expenses and more
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My best guess for the minimum cost of an omelet in NZ is $0.40 for one egg; 5 minutes to cook it at the minimum wage rate $18.50 per hour: $1.54; 2000 watt element for 5 minutes at $0.30 per Kwh: $0.03: That totals $1.97 and we haven’t added to the time for washing the dishes, nor for the cost of butter, salt and pepper, rent or property taxes on the premises, nor for depreciation of dishes, pans and utensils 🙂
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Barry go away! Hahaha.
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Eggs are also relatively delicate–from depreciation, handling, mis-handling, contamination, on and on. Also the devil (you should excuse the almost-pun) to cook properly, since an over-cooked egg is worthless and damn near inedible.
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Obviously, you’ve not seen Rocky. 😀 I was a kid when I saw that movie first, and, after seeing it, I went home and tried to drink raw eggs. Yeah. I tried. Couldn’t do it and my mom got VERY pissed off cause I wasted 4 eggs thinking I could.
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You should have been whipped. Wasting 4 eggs trying to be Rambo
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Rocky! Geez, if I were tryin’ to be Rambo, I’d’ve shooting up the kitchen with an AK47.
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Maybe you tried throwing knives against the wall hoping they would stick or making bombs that only kill those you want to take out
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😀
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I rest my case
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To put all your eggs in one sisal, truck it all over town and make a KSh or two seems reasonable. Got chickens to feed and after all, it’s time that is the value here. 🐓 🧺 🥚 🍳 🍴 😋
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Haha Jim. I have given up on you fellows
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Well, consider the cost of someone having to crack the egg open in order to cook it! That alone takes 4 steel mallets and a lot of physical labor! Have a great weekend my Kenyan brother! 🙂 Naked hugs!
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You fellows are impossible! You are all trying to tell me my omelette wasn’t expensive😭😭
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It’s hard to agree when omelettes here are $8. With toast of course
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$8! That’s a full meal man. My $3 omelette was without bread. And I felt robbed. It’s not like it’s a high end restaurant
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For 3 bucks in Chicago you can get a whole eggshell and a cup of warm water.
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Hahaha. Drops Chicago from list of places to visit
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Naw, ya gotta come for the pizza!
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And how much is pizza? Generally we buy pizza for $11. And that’s like 30cm of pizza
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Depends on what kind. I always get stuffed pizza. 15 to 20 is about what you’d pay. And there’s always left overs for the next day.
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Returns Chicago to the list. I must see you Jeff in this lifetime
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That would be a blast! If you ever get to come over this way, let me know, my friend!
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There’s only one fantastic source of pizza and that’s ftom Hell
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I remember when you wrote about Hell. Maybe some day I can come to the end of the world and visit Hell
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You won’t regret it 😊
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Here you’d get the warm water
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Talking of water. 500ml of bottled water generally retail for say $.5. some establishments without doing anymore thing to the water sell it at $1.5. Come to think of it, I should start a hotel business!
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You’ve touched a sensitive area there Mak. Under the watch of the previous government a foreign corporation obtained the right to export pure spring water without having to pay a cent for it. And it’s not a small quantity. We’re talking about enough to affect the aquifer
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To export without paying a dime? How is that even possible and a foreign company for that matter
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As warsr is a free public resource it’s there for the taking. I’m sure when the law drafted this situation hadn’t been envisaged. With all the public outcry, it’s unlikely to be replicated.
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Have their rights been repealed or rather how long was the lease/ contract they were given?
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As the minster for the environment stated, as much as she wanted to overturn to right, the rule of law prevails. However she’s let it be known that she will use her authority to refuse any further licences and to decline renewal of the current one when it expires.
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If you come to visit with me, bring your omelettes from home. Over here, they are 5 times that much! Better yet, I’ll get Aaron to cook breakfast for us! 😉 Have a great weekend! Naked hugs!
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You are kidding me! Plain omelette or with toast? I will carry my eggs in my carry on luggage & hope border control do not confiscate them
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He’ll cook you whatever you prefer! He’s a great cook! 🙂
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Amazing the topics that are discussed on blogs …😛
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That’s the joy of blogging 😁
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Welcome to the wondrous world of capitalism! It’s a magical realm where eggs are profitable commodities instead of simply being food. It’s a place where the price of eggs depends on who the customer are. To the rich man who can afford thousands of eggs (but who doesn’t want them), the price goes dramatically down. To the poor man who can’t afford any eggs (but who needs them), the price goes dramatically up.
Isn’t it great? I can’t imagine a world without capitalism!
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What a wonderful world!
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Indeed! Free market economies are wonderful and a world without them would suck. Hence the reason we see more mass migrationsfrom Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, El Salvador, Venezuela, and Liberia to the than vice versa.
And the reason large purchasers receive volume discounts is because it’s more cost effective to sell large quantities to fewer buyers than it is to sell small quantities to thousands of buyers.
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Perhaps you were paying for egg-ceptional services.
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I wish this were the case. The omelette wasn’t even great.
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Perhaps he was just ripped-off.
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Hey, Maka: Given that a sheet of paper is pennies, ink is minute, and modern architects seem unable to design beautiful buildings, I am guessing your architectural services are quite cheap!?
(I kid, I kid! 🙂 )
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Hahah Brian,
I do a lot of pro bono work.
I am going into omelette business as architecture no longer pays
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