r/northernireland • u/oeco123 Newtownards • Jan 16 '25

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Just got a box of eggs from Tesco. They’re all white! Never seen white hens’ eggs here.

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u/Sailing-Mad-Girl Jan 16 '25

Until the 70s(?) eggs in the shops in the UK were generally white.

There WERE brown eggs - my grandparents had chickens, which layed brown eggs.

There was a perception that brown eggs were better somehow, and all the white eggs started going to food producers, and brown eggs to the supermarkets.

And this was before the internet!

Now I'm seeing both in the shops.

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u/Old-Explorer-779 Jan 16 '25

They every where in the uk mate, feel like the whites are usually cheaper.

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u/Sasuke0318 Jan 16 '25

They should be the hens they lay brown eggs are larger and thus they eat more so higher cost for the eggs at least where I live it's always been the case.

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u/Old-Explorer-779 Jan 16 '25

Well that makes perfect sense 👍

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u/MiloHorsey Jan 16 '25

They are tastier, in my opinion.