Egg Heads
By pgn
@pgntwo (22408)
Derry, Northern Ireland
February 21, 2016 11:54am CST
If you eat hen's eggs, do you have a preference for brown-shelled eggs or for those with a white shell? The more common colour of egg around these parts seems to be brown, I cannot remember when I last bought eggs that had white shells.
Eggs are so versatile: hard or soft boiled, poached, fried over-easy or sunny-side up, scrambled, as an omelette or quiche or frittata... even as eggnog!
Apparently the colour of the egg is determined by the colouring of the hen that lays the egg, as this short clip of the chief egghead, Stephen Fry, on the UK TV program QI explains:
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@Asylum (47893)
• Manchester, England
21 Feb 16
@Orson_Kart They suit my educated palate far better than fried or boiled.
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@Orson_Kart (6776)
• United Kingdom
21 Feb 16
A hen's egg that is an academic? Whatever next! 
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
21 Feb 16
i saw this and then got hungry as it was near dinner time - so I made scrambled eggs on toast with the eggs that a friend brought me during the week. They are off-whitish and not really either white or brown but they are farm eggs as they are her chickens.
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@mysdianait (66009)
• Italy
21 Feb 16
@pgntwo Me too. They are popular here but I have never bought, cooked or eaten them (as far as I know anyway LOL).
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
21 Feb 16
@mysdianait I remember years ago when airlines actually served a meal on-board: Alitalia used to serve a lunch with a tiny quail's egg, small and cute! Also if you read @MALUSE's link on her response chain on this post, the Italians class the egg based on the colour of the yolk - now that was news to me!
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
21 Feb 16
@pgntwo No specific reason,but I buy white shelled eggs.
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@silvermist (19702)
• India
21 Feb 16
@pgntwo Everybody here love eggs.But I am not a big fan.
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
21 Feb 16
@silvermist Not everyone can handle some of the proteins in the egg-white, I know that.
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@infatuatedbby (94914)
• United States
28 Feb 16
I eat both white and brown eggs but usually organic brown eggs. I like my eggs hard boiled, fried, scrambled or in an omelette is fine. I do not like eggnog though or poached.
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@pgntwo (22408)
• Derry, Northern Ireland
28 Feb 16
@infatuatedbby Close to poached eggs is the coddled egg, another style I have not had for many years:
How to make coddled egg, Coddling is a wonderful old way to prepare an egg as a dainty little meal, especially if you have an old china or porcelain egg coddler with a silver lid. It makes breakfast in bed that extra bit special and for lunch it is looks v
@Orson_Kart (6776)
• United Kingdom
21 Feb 16
I must have missed that episode of QI. I always thought it was to do with the grit that they ate to make the shell. I guess I was misled.
I've never seen a white egg for a long time and I eat a lot of them. Interesting.
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@sueznewz2 (10409)
• Alicante, Spain
22 Feb 16
I love eggs.... but like you I have not seen any white eggs for ages.... in spain or the uk...
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@Daljinder (23236)
• Bangalore, India
22 Feb 16
I don't eat eggs. Brown, blue, black, purple, green, white, yellow.......... uh you get the point... hehe 
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@AbbyGreenhill (45494)
• United States
21 Feb 16
From everything I've learned over the years, including from my grandparents who had a farm and had chickens there is no different in brown or white eggs.
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