Brown Eggs

[supapapa]

My son seems to think that Americans don`t eat brown eggs, is this correct and if so why not?

[Sparkles62]

I've never heard that, I can't see any reason why not.
rthere is no nutritional differance between brown and white eggs.
White eggs are generally laid by hens with white ear lobes. and brown eggs by hens with red.
the hens that lay brown eggs are more prolific layers, that is why we have brown eggs, not white in the shops. X

[april1693]

Sorry I don't have an answer for you but I was watching the American cook Ina Garten on the Food Network recently and actually noticed all she used was white-shelled eggs, it caught my eye because it's years since I've seen one.

[Old_Geezer]

is he twenty days too late ?

[jim360]

There is a long-standing, and totally wrong, belief that the colour of an egg shell is related to its quality. In the US it's apparently traditional to think of White eggs as better than brown. In some other countries it's the other way round. I'm not sure if it's still true that you only get white eggs in the US, but it certainly used to be. In American cartoons, for example, eggs are always white.

[Old_Geezer]

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006051104325
There seems to be a preference, but I suspect it is going a bit far to say they don't eat them.

[Clanad]

Actually, there's a relatively simple answer. All the chickens here in the U.S. that produce eggs comercially are white (with white ear tufts)... hence the white eggs. One can, if they look on the back of the egg section, find brown eggs (as I do). But most of those are locally grown at an Hutterite collective not far away. (I'm assured they do, in fact have brownish "ear tufts").

Same thing applies to turkeys... almost all the turkeys produced for consumption here are white... but only for one simple reason. The "pin" feathers and rare feather shaft left on the bird when they are slaughtered are white from white turkeys, but black (at least quite dark) from the black birds... and the producers have learned (years ago) that Mrs. Housewife (isn't that an antiquated phrase?) doesn't like the looks of something black sticking out of her turkey...

[FredPuli43]

And Clanad, the prized turkey here is the Norfolk Black!

Bit of wiki-ing reveals that the bronze turkey was once the most popular in the US but was superseded by the white in the last century: Mrs Housewife has decided !

[Canary42]

//Mrs Housewife has decided??///

Mrs Housewife has been brainwashed by commercial interests' advertising.

[andres]

In America they believe that brown eggs contain much more protein than white eggs and this will raise cholesterol levels .

[FredPuli43]

"Mrs Housewife", the consumer, is deceived by other things. Supermarkets light meat with lights that make it look redder. Yet experienced buyers don't want steak that looks like that; they want it obviously aged. And detergents had a chemical added to make it foam, because consumers associated bubbles and foam with the detergent working, something which detergent for machines had little of, because foaming is not a good result in machines.

It is interesting that the British consumer wants brown eggs; no more logical, on the face of it, than wanting white ones. I prefer brown, too. They seem more 'natural', more 'free range' when they are nothing of the sort.

[maggiebee]

Abraham23, they are those white ones that my old mum used to dunk in tea to make the shells brown because my dad said he liked brown ones best!

[Ric.ror]

I'm sure when I was a child brown eggs cost more than white ones