white eggs

[corkgirlindublin]

Just watching crappy American reality tv here and a women is cooking eggs. The egg shells are white rather than the brown shells on our eggs. Whats the difference?

You ask "What's the difference"...the only difference is the egg shell colour. I have chickens which lay both white, brown and blue eggs. However the egg itself offers the same nutritional value as each other. My White Leghorn's lay white eggs, chosen simply so I can use them for crafts. Such as now, Christmas, I blow the eggs and use them to create ornaments for Christmas wreaths, and tree ornaments. Hope this helps...

The type of hen that laid them. That is all.

American eggs are also washed aggressively which can make the shells thinner - that's illegal in the UK.

As mrspremise already said, it is down the the breed of the hens, the most common chickens in the US just happen to be ones that lay white eggs, that's it.

I think people in the UK started to prefer brown eggs in the vague belief that they must be better, since brown bread etc are. So they bought brown in preference, and producers made sure they provided brown because that's what customers wanted. But yes, they are exactly the same so it doesn't actually matter.

I remember in the Little House on the Praire ? Their hens only laid brown eggs and the woman in the shop thought it was disgusting and refused to buy them. White people only ate white eggs

We sometimes get white duck eggs from a duck-keeping friend.

It's the variety of chicken. American consumers tend to prefer white whereas UK consumers prefer brown.

In Germany we get both, and sometimes the white ones are all painted so you can buy rainbow eggs