Food Theory: Gaston STOLE All the Eggs! (Beauty and the Beast)

Here's a consideration: I'm not convinced Gaston knows how many eggs are in a dozen.

I had this thought years ago. The line "I need 6 eggs. That's too expensive." always makes me think it's because Gaston eats most of them so there's only a small amount left.

In the live musical production, the lines "I need six eggs" and "thats too expensive" are sung right after the other. Some directors give the baker's wife the first line with the baker replying. Its a perfect fit for this theory.

Remember, this man calculated the time and place where the movie took place, the chickens that laid the eggs and even used the Laws of Supply and Demand just to figure out if One Man ate an entire Village's Egg Supply.

Well, Belle’s dad is a crazy inventor. He could have artificial lighting and feed. It would explain why Gaston is so set on marrying Belle; he’s gotta secure those eggs

Gaston didn’t think Belle was being held hostage when Maurice first came to beg for help saving her. He only went after the Beast AFTER Belle had already been freed & showed more interest in the Beast than in Gaston.

Honestly, Matpat makes it sound like 200 is a lot of chickens to have one hand, but my Great Depression Grandmother raised up to 300 chickens each year to sell for meat to a local inn and used the eggs they laid beforehand to sell and feed her 12 children. A little entrepreneurial for the time, but it has been done.

Hey Matt Pat, quick note. I live in Washington state and raise backyard chickens. Roughly the same latitude as France so roughly the same daylight hours. Between October and January my chickens don’t lay eggs at all. so there’s even less eggs for bargification

I love the fact that MatPat went from food theory to film theory to architectural theory.

I like how MatPat doesn't just assume the villain was eggs-agerating.

Something to take into consideration: If a hen is frightened, egg production halts for days. On several occasions, we had to deal with predators getting into the Chicken enclosure at night. Now fortunately, our hens were kept in a building at night, that locked from the outside, so only occasionally did we lose one. Still, the predators got into the fenced area they roamed during the day. After firing some shotgun blasts to take care of the problem, hens stopped laying eggs for almost 7 full days.

5:55 From someone who speaks French, French people would've definetly understood you Very good pronounciation MatPat :)

I've always thought Gaston didn’t know what a dozen means and thought it was how they were prepared.

"When I was a lad, I ate four dozen eggs every morning to help me get large. And now that I'm grown, I eat five dozen eggs. So I'm roughly the size of a barge. " I like to imagine that Gaston was just going around early in the morning, pillaging eggs from everyone in town as he slowly grown into a bigger kid and then adult. Gaston going around chicken pens, just swallowing eggs and dipping. Eventually, he just became such a barge that he uses his strength to become the greatest giga-chad in the village. And because he's such a barge, nobody wants to challenge him due to his intimidating strength. In the song, LeFou says "no one's slick as Gaston, no one's quick as Gaston" implying that Gaston is so fast at consuming the eggs so then nobody is able to capture him early on which made him become big and strong in the end.

I got an ad at 10:33, so it cut off and was just 1, my monkey brain somehow find this funny

Now what we really need answers to: How did Gaston eat all those raw eggs WITH THE SHELLS ON?

Now for the question, does Gaston eat so many eggs because he's respected enough to get away with it or is he respected because he's able to afford so many eggs? Which came first, the hunter or the eggs?

Fun fact in the french version of Gaston's song, he actually says "when I was little I ate 4 dozen eggs (...) Now that I am big I eat 49" so yeah it starts just like you but the french version in so much funnier when you realize that he just added the grand total of 1 egg to his diet

I live in a small town, everyone's solution to the egg price rise is that they have nearly completely stopped buying from the store and are just buying chickens, but I wonder if that would truly be cheaper in the long run .

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