Belle: there goes the baker with his tray as always, the same old bread and rolls to sell
Baker: I
AM
A
BAKER
IT’S
LITERALLY
MY
JOB
TO
DO
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Replying to @OmarNajam
He would sell a larger variety of bread and rolls, but with his weekly intake of 420 eggs (requiring no less than 140 chickens, probably more) Gaston has driven up the market price to a point where as few as six eggs is "too expensive," for common folk.
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Replying to @OliBatto @OmarNajam
This is based on the assumption that Belle's village is in the Loire Valley, where the chickens traditionally raised lay up to 3 times weekly, but slow or stop laying between October and March, meaning more hens would be required to generate a surplus to be stored for winter.
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Replying to @TheJonStaples
Omg thank you! I have always been concerned about Gaston’s egg intake. This is one of the most personally important tweets I’ve ever read
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Replying to @OmarNajam
Oh it goes deeper. A French agricultural journal from 1849 said "Each family possesses a dozen of hens." If we assume 200 laying hens to account for low producers and building winter surplus, the household flocks of nearly 17 families are tied up in Gaston's breakfast.
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eggs don't store well, so summer surpluses can not easily be stored for winter consumption OTOH, production does not go to zero in the winter FWIW, we have 3x as many birds as needed for summer to get 1x in winter, sell surplus
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