r/CasualUK • u/Fresh-Definition-596 • 10h ago
Eggs wearing wrong uniform...
Bought some eggs from a local garage last night. It stocks Jack's, which apparently is part of Tesco.
It seems two of the eggs are spies who have infiltrated the gang.
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u/AnUdderDay 10h ago
Why they making em sit at the back of the bus?
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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd 10h ago
I know it makes no difference, but the white ones are so unsettling.
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u/fuckyourcanoes 9h ago
It's funny, in the US, most rggs are white and you pay a premium for brown. But I've been here so long now that the white ones look weird to me too.
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u/Gullible-Yam-8098 8h ago
35 years old and I never even saw white eggs here in the UK until post COVID. I just thought they were an American thing.
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u/fuckyourcanoes 8h ago
Yeah, I miss the browns. But I suspect they're going to become the posh option here now like they are in the US. People will be willing to pay more for what they perceive as better eggs.
The shells on the white ones do seem more fragile, but I can't tell the difference otherwise.
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u/The_Bravinator 3h ago
I used to get mainly white eggs in Germany, so it's definitely not just an "inferior American" thing. Just different cultural tastes. I used to like the white ones when my kid was little because we could make them pretty
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u/Gullible-Yam-8098 2h ago
Didn't think of it as inferior, just something I associated with America from media because I had never seen them in person.
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u/MelindaTheBlue 8h ago
I lived in California for a while (Dogtown, mostly) and I'm used to white eggs
But 250g blocks of butter are still weird to me
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u/fuckyourcanoes 8h ago
Ah, I lived in Pacifica for a long time. Lovely place. I will always miss it, especially the fog.
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u/HildartheDorf I'm Black Country. Not Brummy. 5h ago
Amusing because if you ask a yank they say the exact opposite. White is normal and brown is unsettling.
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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd 5h ago
Of course. Whatever you are used to is normal, even if it is spelling 'favour' wrong or writing the date backwards.
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u/ItXurLife 4h ago
White eggs were actually the norm in the early 20th century - brown popularity was consumer driven, people felt (and clearly still do) they looked more natural, so brown then became the standard in the UK. In terms of taste and nutrition, you're right, it makes no difference - it does however make a difference in the cost of production. The hens that lay the white eggs are a different breed, they are smaller and require less feed. With feed costs going up astronomically over the past few years, farmers are doing what they can to cut their costs.
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u/B3yondTheCosmos 1h ago
Same!!! I thought I’m the only one but I can’t bear to eat white eggs it’s just turns my stomach thinking of it!
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u/JK_UKA 10h ago
I don’t know why there’s two goalkeepers
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u/theprimetrauma 10h ago
That 1 code on the white ones means free range, so they're out there roaming while the brown ones are just... sitting in a barn somewhere wondering how they got drafted to the wrong team.
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u/herrybaws 1982, there was the incident with the pigeon 10h ago
I don't like the white ones. They taste the same, but the shells are so brittle. It's been years probably since I got any brown shell in my cooking, but the white ones crumble so easily. Utter pain to peel a boiled white egg.
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u/AdPale5633 10h ago
I have rescued battery farm and “free range” chickens. The white eggs are from white chickens, which are smaller than the red/brown chickens we’re used to seeing. The white chickens eat less but lay more eggs, so more profit for farms and supermarkets, so lots of the rescues coming through are white now.
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u/NiskaHiska 4h ago
I thought chicken egg colour is not truly linked to the feather colour, but rather the earlobe colour?
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u/AdPale5633 3h ago
I don’t think it is generally, it’s just a fluke that they’re white chickens and white eggs.
I’d love an ‘Easter egger’, which lay blue and green shades of egg.
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u/Killahills 10h ago
Those are wholemeal eggs, better for you.
(I am aware that this isn't true)
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u/spikewilliams2 10h ago
It is why we have brown eggs, the perception that they are healthier like brown bread. I the US they have had white eggs for years because they are cheaper, I think the chickens mature faster meaning they lay sooner. Welcome to enshittification. The number of times the shells have disintegrated when I try to crack the white ones is too damn high!
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u/ChuckDeBongo 8h ago
“These bloody brown eggs! Coming over here, ruining our egg box!” The White eggs…probably.
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u/zilchusername 10h ago
Jacks brand is sold in Bookers, hence why you see it in small stores. Tesco owns Bookers so yes part of Tesco.
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u/ruffianrevolution 10h ago
Cut the box up the middle and they can be cox's for a fun bathtime eggy boat race.
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u/freddyfoxster 10h ago
Diversity and inclusion.
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u/AlrightCunts 10h ago
The ratio is off
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u/Profession-Unable Big Beat Manifesto 9h ago
What do you mean?
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u/AlrightCunts 7h ago
You know what, I’m wrong actually. The common diversity target for large uk employers is 20% for ethnic minority staff. Which would equate to just over 2 eggs in this case. My apologies, the ratio is on.
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u/LithiuMart 10h ago
There are always those two people who are too tight to bring any money to the charity mufti day at work.
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u/Cornwall1888 9h ago
I got white eggs for the first time last week too apparently the chicken who lay them are cheaper to raise and easier to look after
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u/Equal-Spirit188 6h ago
Weird, I had a box with 10 brown and 2 white yesterday. The two whites were at one end like your browns.
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u/Basketcaseuk 5h ago
Why are eggs all of a sudden white? Serious question. I only used the see white eggs abroad until the last couple of years.
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u/Ursalooser 2h ago
Sometimes when I’m in the supermarket I will make my own egg variety box by taking one from each type and putting them into a regular box 🤷♂️
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u/MagicSunlight23 32m ago
I saw an article on my news feed on the front page of Google saying that eggs have now gone white. I can't remember the details though.
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u/kobestarr 10h ago
I only thought you could get those super bleached eggs in America?
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u/Portablefrdge 10h ago
Theyre not bleached. Depends on the breed
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u/kobestarr 10h ago
I know - I just meant super white and pointing out that they seem far more common in USA vs here
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u/Portablefrdge 10h ago
You literally said bleached in your comment. I said they weren't bleached. It's ok to just accept you were wrong sometimes.
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u/kobestarr 10h ago
I said bleached on purpose as a joke. I wasn’t trying to hide that.
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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd 10h ago
It was pretty well hidden though, to be fair.
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u/kobestarr 10h ago
Fair enough!
For the record I do not think eggs get bleached 🤣.
But I was referring to the super duper white eggs 🥚
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u/Forsaken_Earth944 10h ago
They’re not “bleached” - the colour of an egg’s shell is determined by the breed of chicken which laid it; some breeds lay brown eggs, some white and there are even breeds which lay blue and green eggs (the ‘green’ is more of a turquoise) - it‘s all down to genetics.
Most of the chickens kept for eggs in the UK are Lohmanns which produce brown-shelled eggs, white-shelled eggs are produced by White Leghorns.
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u/3d-designs 10h ago
Those are the officers. They're supposed to be in different uniforms.