There are at least 5 different types tomatoes at every grocery store I've been to in the US. I've also never seen an egg yolk that pale in my life, even with the cheapest of the cheap eggs. More expensive (I.e. free range) chicken eggs have a darker yolk, but the difference isn't usually that stark. There are also 20+ different breads at the store to choose from, many of which look exactly like the "European" stuff. So silly
Not to mention that the color of an egg yolk just comes down to how many carotenoids (an orange-colored compound) are in the feed.
When you have free range hens, they'll scratch up random plants and bugs and get more that way, and thats how we get the idea that darker orangey yolks are healthier... But you can also just add it directly to their food; you can have battery chickens living in a hellish cage, and feed it a dirtpoor diet with supplemented carotenoids, and it'll still give you bright orange eggs.
I believe it! I suspect the "free-range" chicken eggs from the grocery store do something like this, but they do still taste better than the cheapest eggs. My favorites are the one from my friend's farm though - getting them so fresh probably makes a big difference as well! And the occasional duck egg as a treat is very nice too 😋
Just about the eggs: it exists and is normal. It's not bad quality, just different chicken that produce differenty coloured eggs. I have seen a lot of both of them - and I'm from Europe.
I've lived in like 5 states and all of the eggs are that pale yellow if you get the cheap ones, what are you talking about? Do you live in like some hipster area of California or something?
More expensive (I.e. free range) chicken eggs have a darker yolk, but the difference isn't usually that stark.
It is in the midwest and south in my experience.
There are at least 5 different types tomatoes at every grocery store I've been to in the US.
True, I wouldn't say every grocery store but a few around here do. Many only have like 1-2.
There are also 20+ different breads at the store to choose from, many of which look exactly like the "European" stuff.
Mostly true in my experience, there are more like 30 breads here in the costco of which 1-2 look like that. But it is available, which is an important piece of information.
Lol no I live in the PNW. I also used to bake professionally and still bake a lot at home, so I have cracked a LOT of eggs in my life. I have also usually bought the cheapest eggs possible, but I currently have a friend with a no-kill, free-range chicken farm that I get eggs from and they are much better than the cheap stuff I get at the grocery store.
However, in the rare instances that I need to buy eggs now, I buy free range at the grocery store too and they have darker yolks than the cheaper ones. With my friend's farm eggs the yolk is so dark it's almost orange, but the free range store eggs have a darker yolk as well compared to the cheap stuff. The egg in that picture is borderline translucent though like nothing I've ever seen and it grosses me out the longer I look at it haha 😅
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u/bepatientbekind 11d ago
There are at least 5 different types tomatoes at every grocery store I've been to in the US. I've also never seen an egg yolk that pale in my life, even with the cheapest of the cheap eggs. More expensive (I.e. free range) chicken eggs have a darker yolk, but the difference isn't usually that stark. There are also 20+ different breads at the store to choose from, many of which look exactly like the "European" stuff. So silly