What eggs do you eat in the US? Brown/eggs white eggs, there is no difference. We'd be hard pushed to find any white eggs in our grocery stores as the trend a number of years ago was to switch to brown as it was stated by certain acitivist groups that white eggs came from battery hens and brown from free-range. Over the years brown eggs have just become the norm.
Pam

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I'm not sure why the color difference. Some say it's because we use so many hormones in the chicken feed here in the US. It wouldn't surprise me. Nothing is natural here.

They do sell brown eggs and "free-range" eggs at just about every grocery store in the US. There is even more of a selection at gourmet stores like Whole Foods (one is close to me and I love it). Brown eggs don't taste any different to me, but my partner Christopffre (who is a good cook) prefers them for some reason.

I just can't believe a cruise line could take serious such a trivial complaint. I say keep the brown eggs and keep the whiney passengers at home. I wouldn't want to dine with them.

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Now we buy eggs directly from a poultry farm in St. Michaels. They raise free-running birds, which produce eggs that are really big, and come in shades of white, blue, and green (I kid you not).

I assume it depends what the little free-running rascals decided to eat at any given time. They are pricey and super-delicious.

Way off topic, but it could be very interesting for the American cruisepassengers LOL.

White eggs brown eggs here in the Netherlands there is hardly a white egg in the suppermarket to get. The are all brown and frome free living chickens so more animal friendly.

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Originally posted by Green:
"About $3.00 more per dozen, white or brown, they're all the same" was the reply...

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"The long-term benefit of eating organic foods has not been established. And from a nutritional standpoint, foods grown organically contain no more nutrients than regularly grown foods."

I fail to see the point.. not until they filter all the rain water too.
Pam... got a fridge full of brown non-organic, presumably lower class eggs
..and Gohaze, one puts the narrow end in the cup, and bashes the blunt end, where the air sac is, for easy picking. Mr P will argue however that my method is all wrong!

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LOL..
..and Gohaze, one puts the narrow end in the cup, and bashes the blunt end, where the air sac is, for easy picking. Mr P will argue however that my method is all wrong!

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Gotta be a Brit thing! - you bash the blunt end! Mr. G disagrees - he's German/French.....clean cut of the pointy end is his way!

Cripes!!!! we'll be sent to Coventry - this is a cruise forum!!!

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I do know that while there are probably truly organically fed chickens, I have a great deal of doubt on the whole "organic" thing. I once worked in the health food industry, and I've seen too much there to believe in it to any extent.

Maybe someone should ask themself what "free range" chickens might be eating. Do you really think a diet of insects and seeds of whatever plants might be around would be preferable to a balanced grain/protein diet?

Anyhow, Saturday (yesterday) at the farmer's market here in St. Michaels, where the local producers bring in their goodies, I purchased a dozen eggs from a free-range supplier which were (and I kid you not), green, light blue, brown, white, and speckled! They are great eggs, large, and pricey at 4-bucks a dozen, and no, I do not have the slightest idea of what the free-rangers are into!

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Originally posted by mrblanche:
Wanting "free range" chickens and eggs, is, in my never to be humble opinion, the same as insisting that the meat be only buffalo, venison, antelope, etc., and the escargots fresh off the garden wall.

No doubt those animals are "tastier," but...

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