Brown

As it turns out, I'm a racist.  An egg racist.  I bought some brown eggs at the store the other day (paying twice the price I normally do for white eggs) because I'd heard they're healthier, they taste better, etc... Only to leave them in my fridge for a couple of days afraid to eat them.  AFRAID TO EAT THEM BECAUSE OF THEIR COLOR!

Blatant racism at work right there folks.

Today, I'd run out of my other breakfast options and was left with the brown eggs. 

I need to note here that Alex, he seems to have a case of egg jungle fever, because at the grocery store, he INSISTED he be allowed to "kiss the brown eggs".  Every day they've been sitting in my fridge, he'd beg for me to get them out so he could kiss one of them.  He doesn't kiss white eggs, so I' not sure what that's all about, but three year olds, they are strange creatures.

I hesitantly cracked one open into a bowl, expecting, I don't know, a frog?  Fireworks? Guess what? They look just like normal eggs!  I started mixing two eggs with some skim milk for scrambled eggs and I noticed a smell.  Like vomit.  YUCK! Apparently brown eggs smell like vomit!  I went to dump the nasty smelling eggs into the sink when I turned around and discovered Max had horked all over his high chair tray.  I put my nose close to the eggs in the bowl.  Nope, they smelled like eggs. 

So I cooked them up, and guess what?

They taste EXACTLY like white eggs.

I looked online for information on the difference between brown eggs and white eggs, only to find that there doesn't appear to be any nutritional difference either.  Apparently brown eggs are brown because they come from brown hens. Huh.

Well, I think I learned a lesson here.  Never judge an egg by it's shell, or something...

  

Comments

[Jen Beans]

So if you saw a brown hen and a white hen sitting so nicely on their eggs would you take the brown hen's eggs over a white hen's eggs now?

[Jamie]

I would take the ones from the hen that looks less likely to peck my eyes out for stealing her eggs.