I just found out that we are one of the few countries that refrigerates eggs. I know that you don’t need to if they are fresh from the farm and unwashed but I just assumed they were always washed for retail sale.

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We've been getting our eggs direct from a farm for several years. They're still washed as they have to be by law, but they're nothing at all like the eggs at the grocery store. I think I read that commercial eggs actually have clear yolks and they are injected with color.

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It's amazing how different dairy and produce is from what is mass produced here.

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That sounds far fetched, but I'm sure the ones direct from the farm are better. How much do they cost?

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Milk is entirely different.

Out here in DeKalb County they are about $3.50/doz. out in the country. The yokes are more orange than yellow. There's definitely a difference.

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For my entire childhood we had a farmer come sell us eggs and other stuff. I believe he had been coming since the 60's. Everything he brought tasted better than what we got from the grocery store.

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They're part of a CSA share but I figure they are close to $5 a dozen. We try not to buy any CAFO animal products.

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Why do we wash our eggs and the rest of the world doesn't?

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Doesn’t sound far fetched to me. The ol’ salmon marketing strategy

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I've always noticed there's a ton of extra ingredients in food here versus food in Europe.

Some of it’s sanitary and some of it’s marketing. Washing them cleans off chicken poop which otherwise can spread from your hands to other items when handling. Washing them also provides a more uniform appearance which Americans prefer. That’s also why most of our eggs are white while those in the UK are almost all brown. The problem with washing them is it removes a natural protective coating which keeps air and bacteria from penetrating the shell. Thus they require continual refrigeration. By comparison, eggs in English grocery stores are on the same shelves as cereal, bread and other goods.

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Fresh eggs are kind if a pain at times The air pocket hasn’t developed so if you are in mood for hard boiled it’s a bit of a pain as they cling to the shell a bit tighter. Gotta plan ahead or get over the training of refrigeration. We haven’t done eggs for a while but a small flock egg is completely different due to true free range diet (chickens eat everything, grass,weeds, seeds, bugs, toads, snakes, mice.. probably small rats) nasty creatures. Ducks far less savage.

But... as others have said the yolk, as well as being orange , will stand up instead of run and egg in general will stay intact more so after cracking. Ours had crazy thick shells too but alas the varmints got our layers and I’m too busy to rebuild our mini flock. I always enjoyed our crazy colored eggs, green, blue, chalky white, glossy white, light brown, dark brown (almost red brown). Fun with the kids.

$3 a dozen from our farmer family. Definite difference in taste.

A conspiracy about clear egg yolks?

Seriously?

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They’re are additives given to layer flocks feed ration that enhance the yolk color but injecting? First I’ve heard of that although my only contact with layer barns is acquiring fertilizer or shipping corn.

Maybe I don't want the free range farm eggs after all...

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Mostly it’s just seeds, insects and grass/weed along with their feed but occasionally the farm yard provides them an unexpected bonus. When it comes to food... most people don’t want to know how the sausage is made.

We get duck eggs once in awhile too. They're slightly larger and have a somewhat stronger taste.

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I've been that way about many foods for decades now. Sometimes it can even get pretty severe.

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I know MANY who won’t eat chicken on the bone because it’s too.. I don’t know, reminiscent of the bird as opposed to just food. Separating the process from the result.. I don’t know, seeing the process with most meats from start to finish I can see going vegetarian. But I like the taste of meat too much I guess.

I’m not sure I can think of a food that I discovered that something about that made it impossible to eat although lobster and crab come damn close but since I don’t eat those much anyways I guess it’s not a pressing issue for me.

Family did an AirBNB in Ireland a few years ago... guy renting it says "I've got you setup to make a proper breakfast in the morning so you'll have a solid meal in you before you start the day." Fridge had bacon, Irish sausages, English muffins, waffles, milk, cereal -- all in all a good spread but we thought it was strange there weren't any eggs. We found the eggs in the cabinet by the laundry after a couple of days.

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My brother-in-law won't eat anything that looks like what it actually is.

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For me it is the cooking process for those two items more than them being whole animals.

My great grandmother used to sit whole fish on the counter while she was getting other stuff together, between the look and later smell of that last giant buffalo fish, I haven't been able to eat fishy smelling fish for over four decades. My wife and kids remain stunned by my voracious appetite for monkfish, tuna and all things shellfish.

I was at a lawyers luncheon years ago and decided to try a small bite of salmon and damn near lost it.

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I picked up some baby goat rib chops from one of the country farms a few weeks ago. Defrosted then yesterday and baked them today and had them with a Indian lentil packet. They were outstanding and tender but incredibly expensive - $19 for 14 ounces, and half of that was bone. A stereotypically white southern family runs the farm, but they use a halal slaughter/packing house.

I'd buy them again for a special occasion, but for regular rotation I will stick to Costco lamb loin chops from New Zealand.

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our chickens all lay in 1 spot. if you are picking them within a half hour of them being laid they are going to have chicken shit on them. we don't understand why but it happens. if you let them go a day they will inevitably break one and there will be yoke all over the others.

our chickens eat feed but during the summer feast on bugs and clover and all sorts of other things resulting in deep orange yokes. the difference is pretty amazing.

We recently "re-homed" our hens. They literally wiped out the entire backyard. Turned it into a dirt lot. We could have kept them locked in their little pen but for that its a lot cheaper just to buy eggs at the store.

They are very interesting creatures. Each with its own personality and place in the "pecking order." I do miss one of them a lot. She was like a pet that would come to investigate whatever I was doing in the back yard.

"Cluck cluck...oh I see you are building some raised garden beds...cluck cluck." I was hammering and drilling and she was literally right in my face.

Our eggs would get chicken shit on them very rarely. they should not be shitting in their nest or something is awry.

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What is the issue with lobster and crab? (I don't eat them, but was curious.)