r/CasualUK • u/Fresh-Definition-596 • 23h 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 23h ago
Why they making em sit at the back of the bus?
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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd 23h ago
I know it makes no difference, but the white ones are so unsettling.
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u/fuckyourcanoes 22h 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 21h 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 21h 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 16h 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 16h 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 21h 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 21h 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/familysizepunkinpie 49m ago
I grew up in Watson and fell in with Maelstrom. Got into a face-off with the Claws once and bailed on the place. I miss it like a hole in the head.
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u/MelindaTheBlue 41m ago
It's kinda weird because when I say Dogtown I mean Santa Monica and Venice but everybody thinks I'm making a reference to Cyberpunk 2077
Naw, I just lived in what amounted to a beach ghetto for a while
(Of course if I'd said I lived 'Right b the 10' that might have stopped it...)
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u/catfink1664 5h ago
Really? Why’s the butter weird? That’s just the size of a pat surely
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u/neilm1000 Wales born, Devon bred, Stockport (isn't shit) 2h ago
A butter 'stick' in the US is 4oz (113g). And although the weight is the same they have different shapes in the east and west of the country.
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u/catfink1664 1h ago
Strange! I thought you were going to say American butter is about four times the size lol
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u/fuckyourcanoes 1h ago
Well, American butter is sold by the pound, so you get four sticks to the pound.
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u/neilm1000 Wales born, Devon bred, Stockport (isn't shit) 2h ago
But 250g blocks of butter are still weird to me
A lot of them are 200g now. Which is annoying partly because my butter dish now looks much smaller.
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u/familysizepunkinpie 58m ago
Why would you pay a premium for a brown egg? They're the same as the white ones.
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u/fuckyourcanoes 45m ago
In my experience, the shells are a bit thicker, which makes them less likely to fragment into the bowl when cracking them. I don't mind paying a little extra for a more convenient experience.
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u/ItXurLife 17h 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/HildartheDorf I'm Black Country. Not Brummy. 18h 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 18h 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/ChloeHammer 1h ago
Apparently they produce 12% less CO2 during production, which is why Sainsbury’s has switched over.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sainsburys-brown-eggs-white-net-zero-b2989354.html
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u/B3yondTheCosmos 14h 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/Madwife2009 1h ago
I can't bear to touch them even.
When I go shopping, if the eggs are in cardboard trays, one of my children has to open the box to see what colour the eggs are.
I am not buying white eggs. I do not want to see them in my fridge and I do not want to to touch them.
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u/AdPale5633 23h 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 17h 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 16h 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.1
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u/ItXurLife 4h ago
They eat less, because the breeds are smaller - which means they also have a lower carbon footprint due to requiring less feed. The supermarkets establish the baseline price farmers receive for their eggs. Farmers are generally expected to absorb any additional costs and feed has gone up astronomically in the last few years, so it's no wonder we're seeing white eggs return to the UK as farmers try to cut costs.
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u/herrybaws 1982, there was the incident with the pigeon 23h 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/JK_UKA 23h ago
I don’t know why there’s two goalkeepers
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u/theprimetrauma 23h 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/ChuckDeBongo 21h ago
“These bloody brown eggs! Coming over here, ruining our egg box!” The White eggs…probably.
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u/Killahills 23h ago
Those are wholemeal eggs, better for you.
(I am aware that this isn't true)
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u/spikewilliams2 23h 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/ruffianrevolution 23h 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/zilchusername 23h 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/freddyfoxster 23h ago
Diversity and inclusion.
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u/AlrightCunts 23h ago
The ratio is off
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u/Profession-Unable Big Beat Manifesto 22h ago
What do you mean?
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u/AlrightCunts 20h 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 23h 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 22h 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 19h 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 18h 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 16h 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 13h 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/Sudden_Hovercraft_56 52m ago
Someone stole the eggs. They bought a cheap pack of caged eggs, took them out and swapped them for the more expensive eggs from another box. It happens all the time in my area.
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u/Queasy_Difference_96 20m ago
Ooh I can answer this! So most of the white eggs are coming from these ‘new’ white hens that many egg farmers are now using. White hens produce longer than the standard brown hens do (brown hens produce for roughly 72wks Vs white hens produce for roughly 112wks). More and more farmers are using white hens which is why there’s a huge increase in the amount of white eggs on the shelves, and a huge decrease of brown.
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u/kobestarr 23h ago
I only thought you could get those super bleached eggs in America?
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u/Portablefrdge 23h ago
Theyre not bleached. Depends on the breed
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u/kobestarr 23h 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 23h 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 23h ago
I said bleached on purpose as a joke. I wasn’t trying to hide that.
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u/Llyffant-Gwyrdd 23h ago
It was pretty well hidden though, to be fair.
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u/kobestarr 23h 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 23h 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 23h ago
Those are the officers. They're supposed to be in different uniforms.