this has probably been discussed before but in the opening number for disney’s beauty and the beast, a townsperson is heard singing “I need six eggs— that’s too expensive” at a grocer’s stall. later in the movie, gaston declares that he makes a habit of eating five dozen eggs every day, so he’s “roughly the size of a barge,” having kept up the habit since boyhood. that’s 60 eggs every day, for 365 days a year, for the twenty-something years that gaston has been alive. the reason that eggs are “too expensive” in this small farming town, where there are presumably many chickens, is that gaston is single-handedly eating everyone out of house and home and driving the prices of eggs through the roof due to the supply and demand ramifications of his Eggs Georg behavior