Here we go, just for the record, there is no difference whatsoever nutrition and taste wise between a brown egg and a white one. It's all down to the colour of the hen, brown hens lay brown eggs, white hens lay white eggs. Obviously there's a lesser spotted blue hen laying the curious blue eggs.
I noticed boxes of small white eggs appeared during the egg shortage last year. They were fine and just the size boiled for a sandwich.
There is no difference in quality. On the few occasions I've had white shell eggs I found them easier to peel, but maybe that was a coincidence rather than a fact.
It’s a common misconception that the colour of a bird’s feathers influences the colour of the eggs that they lay. The truth is feather colour has no relation to eggshell colour. Several studies have found that shell colour has no significant effect on egg quality and composition. While diet and lifestyle can make slight differences in eggshell colour, the real deciding factor in colour is genetics. Certain breeds will lay eggs with darker shells, while others will lay eggs with lighter shells, and others will even lay eggs with a greenish-blue hue. But the only difference between these eggs of a different colour is the pigment in the shell.
All chicken eggs actually start out as white eggs. So why then are there so many different colours and shades of chicken eggs? How do blue egg layers exist?
An egg's journey through a hen's oviduct takes about 26 hours and the shell takes about 20 hour to finish forming. Chickens that lay blue eggs have the pigment oocyanin deposited onto the egg very early on this journey.
The blue oocyanin permeates the egg shell thoroughly resulting in the entire egg being a blue colour.
The one thing I've learned about eggs in the last eighteen months due to the shortages and rationing is, the more expensive eggs do taste much better, especially scrambled. I assume it's down to what they have been fed rather than the shell colour.
Today at Taverna~ salt cod, grilled chicken, various salads, courgette croquettes, fava, spicy dips and chips, wine, ouzo, and beer @ 15 euro per head.
It's a great pity the right of free speech isn't based on the obligation to say something sensible.