Kevin's Watch

Chicken eggs are only white because the shells are washed and bleached to make them more 'attractive'. It also has the effect of weakening the shell, making them more susceptible to salmonella - which is why you need to refrigerate white eggs, but not brown.

I know several countries don't *allow* bleaching the eggs, but I don't know which ones.

I never heard of bleaching before.
I thought shell color depended on the breed of chicken.

Also the 'Everest' effect could come into this Sky. That thing where it was noted that the view seen by a person who has laboured by hand and foot to the top of a high scenic mountain will be qualitatively (and quantifiably) different from that experienced by a person carried to the summit in an air conditioned coach. Chances are that where you (actually) experience your own home produced eggs as different to the ordinary, to me they'd taste just like the ones I get in my local value supermarket.

The experience of taste is sensitive to a multitude of different inputs in the creation of it's final form, visual, olfactory, even auditory - and even memory and the route via which it is obtained will play their role.

High Lord Tolkien wrote:I never heard of bleaching before.
I thought shell color depended on the breed of chicken.

^this^

https://backyardpoultry.iamcountryside. ... hite-eggs/

100%

Rigel I have Isa Browns who kay white eggs lol they are not bleached - in fact I don’t even wash them.

I have Arakunas who lay BLUE eggs - their egg shells are a prettt blue. I’ve never wanted to eat them because of the colour.

This is where Pete’s perception argument absolutely applies.

I favour my Australorp eggs which are a range of browns - beige shells

I also have quail (I don’t eat quail eggs cuz their tinyness is not appealing to me lol )

I have peacocks who lay peacock eggs and I’ve never been inclined to eat them either - I’ve hoped that they would have been fertilised and result in chicks but alas no luck there. The female peacock (I only have one) has shown disregard for both male peacocks / despite their desperate attempts to appeal lol she’s a fussy bitch! lol

We don't have white eggs here generally. Maybe in speciality stores, I've never looked or even thought about it.

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lol ... someone marketing guru must really care about segregating eggs into their various eggshell shades to select all the white ones.

When the best eggs are the brown shelled eggs