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Egg prices arrived in Mardi Gras
The increase in egg prices reached Mardi Gras when the high prices of the ingredients exert pressure on the small bakeries during their busiest time of the year.
Mardi Gras is less than two weeks and is expected to participate in Carnival celebrations in Big Easy.
During the Carnival season, people look for the multitude of parades that pass through the streets and also possibly have their hands A King cake.
He French mass Covered with green brightness, purple and yellow is one of the favorites for both locals and visitors.
But to make one of these famous cakes, you have to break some eggs.
The prices of eggs are the highest that have been and the small businesses that bake those famous cakes face the shock of the label.
Jean-Luc Albin, owner of the bakery in Metairie, Louisiana, verifies the production of King Cake inside his kitchen. (Fox News)
Jean-Luc Albin owns the Maurice French Pastries bakery in Metairie, Louisiana.
He has been creating French sweets for more than 30 years.
Albin said that Mardi Gras’s season is the busiest time of the year, with his team baking more than 100 King cakes a day in the store.
Egg scarcity force some stores to impose limits
King Cakes are popular for any kind of party before Tuesday, he said.
“Is Part of the celebrationIt’s something you can share with friends, “said Albin.” It became an obsession among all. Every year it seems to be more exciting. “
Albin said the high cost of the ingredients is making it more difficult to make profits.
Maurice French Pastries’ King Cakes. The bakery is in Metairie, Louisiana. (Fox News)
It does not plan to raise the prices of its king cakes, but expect the cost of eggs to decrease soon.
“You can get them in certain supermarkets for more than $ 10, $ 12 per dozen. All that is a bit mysterious,” said Albin.
“However, chocolate climbed, the eggs went up. So it is difficult in our business.”
In January, the Average egg price He spent $ 4.95 for dozen in the United States.
Buyers are often surprised at high prices of today’s eggs in supermarkets. (Fox News)
He bird flu outbreak It is killing millions of chickens, which leads to high egg prices.
Osman Kazan, director of the business analysis program at the University of Tulane, said people may have to face a new reality when buying eggs.
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“We will not return to dozens of very cheap eggs, which we saw several years ago,” he said. “So this will stay here for a while, and the high one will become the new normality.”
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Kazan added that egg prices are likely to become even higher, and people may not see that prices are leveled until summer.
