White Eggs

From yesterday's Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1752648,00.html

Thanks! That was interesting. Never would have guessed in a million years that was the reason I don't see white eggs here!

I have seen white duck and goose eggs and was tempted to buy some to dye. In the end, I didn't think I was going to have time -- and the article says they don't take dye well, anyway. I wonder why that is?

We didn't have white eggs where I was in the US either -- well, there were some, but weren't that easy to find. The Rhode Island egg people had a huge TV advertising campaign and I can still hear the jingle: "Brown eggs are local eggs ... and local eggs are fresh!"

We didn't have white eggs where I was in the US either -- well, there were some, but weren't that easy to find. The Rhode Island egg people had a huge TV advertising campaign and I can still hear the jingle: "Brown eggs are local eggs ... and local eggs are fresh!"

I had never eaten a brown egg until I moved to the UK last year!

I never even noticed white eggs weren't around any more til people on UKY mentioned it!

Anyone seen white eggs lately? 

I want to make some pysanka for Easter but it just occurred to me that finding the right eggs might be difficult.   I'll start searching NOW!

From yesterday's Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1752648,00.html

Ahh, that would explain my husband's attitude to white eggs. He thinks they are toxic and I always wondered where the heck he got that idea.

They imported white eggs to our part of Rhode Island for Easter.  A lot easier than doing it here I guess.

I searched and searched for white eggs to dye last year, in vain.  Then on Easter Eve we went to a Catholic mass with my mother-in-law in her town, and in the entry way there was a basket of white eggs.  They were grown by a local farmer and you could take as many as you wanted and leave a donation!

They were tiny, but white.  I thought maybe they were especially left for people to buy for dying, but the priest said they were just some parishioner's weekly contribution to the church!  We 'bought' tons of them and spent all evening dying eggs!  

edited to add:  They tasted good too!

I always thought that brown eggs were just better!

I'd not really thought much about the lack of white eggs, just got used to eggs being brown, until my first visit to DF last year and I was making breakfast - I got the eggs and then just exclaimed "wow! they're white, I've not seen white eggs for years!" She was rather surprised.

Whole grain eggs!

Everyone needs to just raise their own chickens 

Different breeds lay different coloured eggs, different sized and shaped eggs, etc.

http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

I used to raise white bantam chickens (and show them) and my girls laid the most beautiful small, pearly white eggs that tasted out of this world! 

I always buy white eggs, not hard to find here in MA, I'm surprised others have said they're hard to find in Rhode Island. I guess that's due to the Rhode Island Reds though...I buy them because, for some strange reason, they are less expensive than brown.

Everyone needs to just raise their own chickens 

Different breeds lay different coloured eggs, different sized and shaped eggs, etc.

http://www.ithaca.edu/staff/jhenderson/chooks/chooks.html

I used to raise white bantam chickens (and show them) and my girls laid the most beautiful small, pearly white eggs that tasted out of this world! 

But you *still* want to use Eggbeaters?!