I was given the task today of getting some white (chicken) eggs to be boiled, coloured and painted for Easter.

Little had I realised that the supemarket chains have decided that people want only brown eggs and that is all they stock on their shelves.
It is surprising that this gradual change had passed me by.

I assume that, these days, it is just a question of another additive in the chicken feed.

Off to the free-range shops tomorrow, then!

When was the last time you remember seeing a white egg?

Ask the BNP!! The white eggs are a minority in some areas.:P

In some of the supermarkets you can get eggs that are a very pale bluish colour, the duck eggs are usually white too (and bigger so easier to paint! LOL

Saw some goose eggs today on a market stall. Perfect white for painting, but £1 a time...

Originally posted by cgksheff yes you can get white duck eggs and goose eggs, but you are right i cant remember the last time i saw a white egg,but then i was always told by my mum the brown eggs had the best yolks,but,when i go shopping tomorrow i am going to ask for white eggsis there a reward.
I was given the task today of getting some white (chicken) eggs to be boiled, coloured and painted for Easter.

Little had I realised that the supemarket chains have decided that people want only brown eggs and that is all they stock on their shelves.
It is surprising that this gradual change had passed me by.

I assume that, these days, it is just a question of another additive in the chicken feed.

Off to the free-range shops tomorrow, then!

When was the last time you remember seeing a white egg?

i wont be accused of being racist for looking for white eggs only,although if i buy some black pudding at the same time it may even it out,eeh eeh

Perhaps to the same place as all the white dog poo?

ok then maybe we should look for :
black eggs
white pudding
pink dog poo.

Originally posted by saxon51
Ask the BNP!! The white eggs are a minority in some areas.:P

Can we keep all the BNP thread together please :D :D :D or else they will be round to give you a white eye :P

I had a non-racial sandwich today!!:D
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One brown slice, one white.

:hihi:

If all else fails - dip them in white paint, let them dry and then paint them pretty colours

WHAT,oh my god not the black pudding,what pretty colours?
the mind boggles.

Originally posted by Lestat
I had a non-racial sandwich today!!:D
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One brown slice, one white.

:hihi:

Did you have a slice of yellow cheese also ?

As for white eggs.

I seem to remember some scare-on-safety issue of white eggs several years ago now.

They are hard to come by, but never the less findable.

Delia has some on the front of 2 her cookery books.

I think she sourced them through a, local to her private farm.

White egg flight? Perhaps they feel marginalised in the multicultural, globalised landscape of the modern supermarket, and have fled back to their 'roots' in the countryside? Mock them at your peril. These are the white eggs of England that never have broken yet.

I only recently found out that white chickens lay white eggs, and brown chickens lay brown eggs.

http://van.hep.uiuc.edu/van/qa/section/Everything_Else/Humans_and_Animals/20011103090928.htm

Weren't white Dog's eggs white due to some long-since-banned bleach-like chemical that was put in dog food?

White Eggs

Recently whilst watching 60's programme Randall and Hopkirk deceased on television there was a scene where Randall was preparing breakfast and he had by his side a carton of six white eggs. Some days later white eggs were to be seen on the programme On The Buses. As a lad I was told it was healthier to eat brown eggs as opposed to white ones. When I now buy eggs in the shops I see brown and some pinkish ones but was happened to the white ones? Have they got rid of a breed of hen that laid only white eggs? Is it evolution or the feed (less calcium)? or has the environment something to do with it? I also remember in the 60's seeing the occasional double yolker (brown or white eggs) but it's years since i've seen one. SERIOUS QUERY.

I was given the task today of getting some white (chicken) eggs to be boiled, coloured and painted for Easter.

Little had I realised that the supemarket chains have decided that people want only brown eggs and that is all they stock on their shelves.
It is surprising that this gradual change had passed me by.

I assume that, these days, it is just a question of another additive in the chicken feed.

Off to the free-range shops tomorrow, then!

When was the last time you remember seeing a white egg?

Just this morning in fact eat one before work My friends dad keeps chickens and I get them off him.

They are free range too.

quite a few years ago, i bought a pack of six eggs, and everyone was a double yoke..i was amased, cant remember what colour they were though:huh:

I had a non-racial sandwich today!!:D
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One brown slice, one white.

:hihi:

haha I hope there was a RED tomato in there

The colour of the shell is down to the breed of chicken and nothing to do with the feed or how they are kept.

Try free range eggs from a farm if theres one nearby that has white hens. I think that I have also seen them at car boot sale at oldcotes

Its weird, in the States all you can get are WHITE eggs and brown/blue eggs are sold at a premium. Though, the eggs in the US have salmonella, so......

White Eggs

Recently whilst watching 60's programme Randall and Hopkirk deceased on television there was a scene where Randall was preparing breakfast and he had by his side a carton of six white eggs. Some days later white eggs were to be seen on the programme On The Buses. As a lad I was told it was healthier to eat brown eggs as opposed to white ones. When I now buy eggs in the shops I see brown and some pinkish ones but was happened to the white ones? Have they got rid of a breed of hen that laid only white eggs? Is it evolution or the feed (less calcium)? or has the environment something to do with it? I also remember in the 60's seeing the occasional double yolker (brown or white eggs) but it's years since i've seen one. SERIOUS QUERY.

It's the breed of hen, some breeds lay white eggs, others lay brown ones. I don't think there's much nutritional difference.

White eggs used to be sought after & hens were bred for whiter eggs, more recently brown eggs have been in fashion.

I just read this link on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(food)

Which says: In general, chicken breeds with white ear lobes lay white eggs, whereas chickens with red ear lobes lay brown eggs

Chickens have ear lobes???? :confused:

You learn something new...

Easter? did I fall into a wormhole?

Easter? did I fall into a wormhole?

Yes you did it's called "the wormhole of commercialized DOOM"

I was given the task today of getting some white (chicken) eggs to be boiled, coloured and painted for Easter.

Little had I realised that the supemarket chains have decided that people want only brown eggs and that is all they stock on their shelves.
It is surprising that this gradual change had passed me by.

I assume that, these days, it is just a question of another additive in the chicken feed.

Off to the free-range shops tomorrow, then!

When was the last time you remember seeing a white egg?

I hadn't thought about this - but I can't myself now recall the last time I saw white eggs for sale.

However, how lovely to know the art of egg painting is still alive.

Well done cgksheff - do Faberge eggs now have a rival?

Can you buy Danish eggs in any local shops?

If I buy locally-produced eggs then they tend to be brown, but one of the shops I use gets its eggs from Denmark and they are invariably white. (They are OK for cooking - as in putting in food which requires eggs - but they don't taste as good as the brown eggs and the yolks are paler.)