I know, a random question for a Saturday morning, but the missus bought these eggs from sainsburys and all the eggs are white, like you would see in the movies. Never ever seen eggs sold here like that before. Has something happened to the egg industry or is there something fowl going on here?
by doppydoe
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If you’ve somewhere close that has an honestly box/sells eggs direct to the public setup get on that for a proper movie egg, place near me does it nd the birds wander about the farm/yard Nd holy fuck you should see the yokes on em they’re unreal.
How can you expect eggs to have a tan in this weather?!
In Birmingham at the moment and eggs from supermarkets have quite often been white for a while over here. More common than brown for maybe a year.
The colour of the eggs is mostly determined by the breed of hen that laid it.
The colour of the egg doesn’t in any way reflect the quality of the egg, although brown eggs are fashionable these days.
We had a couple of dozen hens of various breeds wandering around the farm in my youth and we had a variety of egg colours as well.
Generally, white eggs are from hens with white feathers and brown eggs are from hens with brown feathers.
I said it previously, Farleys Eggs, if your passing along the A5, Ballygawley to Omagh Road, facing A5 Diner, stop & get 30 dark Free range eggs in a cardboard tray for a £5, just put 5 £1 coins into the machine & the wee door opens, the tastiest eggs you’ll eat.
You’d think the bird had just shot them out on order 🐓💨 🥚
The colour doesn’t mean anything, but something like that can put me off if honest, I don’t like the white eggs, weak & sickly looking, but as my aul da would say…., just eat them, it’s all in your head, but that was just before he died of a Salmonella bacteria infection though 👍
That’s your white privilEGG 😏
Nice that they’re from outdoor hens as others have said it’s the breed that determines the colour but typically white feathered hens lay white eggs and brown feathered ones lay brown eggs. We’ve started moving to white feathered chicken breeds because they’re more reliable, docile and productive breeds… I don’t like the look of them as much though.
Deeper dive from a good article about it.
https://www.poultrynews.co.uk/production/white-turn.html
Headline is the short answer
>White eggs made an unexpected comeback during the pandemic, when supermarkets bought eggs intended for foodservice. Now, they are now becoming a permanent fixture.
Money/capitalism, cynicism & marketing, is my takeaway. Pretense at animal welfare when it’s just based on monsters who only care about the margins, will probably be jumped on by the breeders that will get richer from switching to white eggs and public opinion will flip flop after some campaign demonising anyone buying brown eggs.
A bit like free range eggs in the supermarket for your breakfast but all the ones in your other products and hospitality/catering where the battery whites.
There’s one missing.
They’re from an albino chicken
They’re working through some stuff
this is the most usual colour you would find eggs in america, i was staring at the picture forever trying to figure out what was weird about them until i read the caption.
White chickens lay white eggs.Brown chickens lay brown eggs.Its that simple.
I olive in England and has this same thing happen to me, think it’s due to shortages so they’ve got to use the white ones too or something.
I was out off as well
When I was much younger, the majority of eggs would have been white. It was great at Easter when we used to dye them in food colouring and decorate them – not so easy now with the brown eggs.
There is zero nutritional, quality, or taste difference between white and brown eggs. It has become more of a marketing phenomenon where people associate brown rice, wholegrain pasta, brown bread, etc., as a healthier option, so shoppers started preferring brown eggs under the same mistaken pretence and the egg industry shifted to support shoppers habits.
Harkonnen eggs.
I shit my pants when I saw these earlier in the week
A relative bought a half dozen of free range eggs from saintsburys a few months ago.
They realised later when they’d gotten to the stage of unpacking them in order to put them into the egg shelf of their fridge they were all White shelled eggs.
Puzzled, they examined the label in case they’d lifted duck eggs or similar in err..
Turned out after googling, they were simply standard hen eggs albeit from a different breed .
They did say though the eggs had a slightly less “eggy” / blander flavour than they were accustomed to Vs the usual tan shell eggs. Still perfectly serviceable though.
White shelled hen eggs are broadly considered a strange novelty, commercially though.
They washed all the piss off for you
They were laid by a white hen. That’s all. They are just normal eggs
It used to be that consumers had a preference for brown eggs, and white eggs tended to go to industrial food production, but over last couple of years there has been a slow introduction of white eggs to supermarket shelves, probably due to distribution issues they make up shortfall with white.
All the brown colouring was used up on Easter eggs.
Hospitality eggs ar enearly always white. Supermarkets when supplies are low buy in what they can get and occasionally they can only get the same eggs as hospitality. At least in N.Ireland anyway.
Go to your local butchers for all your meat and eggs, potatoes etc. You’ll be supporting the local farmers rather than these big companies. The government wants control of what we eat hence why farmers are holding protests all over Europe and more recently here!
Let the supermarkets keep their dyed meat and injected chickens 🤮