How to Maximize Profit Given 1,000 Eggs?

Got this question in an interview....how would you answer this question? I thought about it in terms of valuation (market prices for eggs, see historically how eggs have sold, etc.) but curious to get your thoughts.

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Sell half, get cash for chicken bio food. Hatch the other half wait for them to become hens and roosters and sell the bio chicken. All these in a country with high prices for chicken meat and eggs to benefit from arbitrage

 

Hold an egg/spoon race contest and charge 100 applicants $5 each. Winner takes $100 prize, and you pocket the rest and sell the remaining eggs to contests for above market price

26 Broadway where's your sense of humor?
 

hold an egg painting and BYOB wine night for women - charge $10 per head. Sell eggs as artwork later

26 Broadway where's your sense of humor?
 

Throw them at the president, get put in jail and have expenses covered by taxpayers for life!

Edit: start gofundme to get all rich liberals to back your cause/legal fees/care for family and keep it.

 

Offer a service: 20$ for hitting any individual of the customer's choice in the head with an egg. Pay some kid to do it for 2$ a throw; cool 18k profit, no work on your part, and a lot of satisfied customers.

 

Label them as organic & cage-free and sign an exclusivity agreement with Whole Foods

Listen, here's the thing. If you can't spot the sucker in the first half hour at the table, then you are the sucker.
 

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