Okay holy shit i ended calculating whether or not gaston could eat 60 eggs a day I ended up finding a 19th century french agricultural/economic journal that details egg imports around france. Very loosely translated from french to english thanks to our old friend google, it states france supplies 55,000,000 eggs alone from 458,333 chickens per year, which puts each hen at around 120 eggs per year. Although this figure is still from the early 19th century, give or take around 20 odd eggs for our figure. Gaston would require around 218 hens to sustain his lust for egg-based gains. Since each family owned around 12 hens, and assuming you had a rough population of 2000 or so which is still quite a generous figure, Gaston’s consumption of eggs would basically mean that either 1. he had to substitute some of his chicken eggs with alternatives from geese, ducks, quails, and so on; 2. the village was being eaten out of house and home by that 18th century douchebag; or 3. the village used alternative eggs for themselves.

in short, gaston is a fucking cunt.

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