American Eggs

[Tribune]

Just watched an episode of Breaking Bad where Jessie is making an omlette. I noticed that the egg shells were white, then it struck me that any time I've seen eggs broken on film or on American cooking programmes the eggs were always white.

Am I imagining it or do they bleach them or something?

Sorry for such a spazzer question, but I'm just intrigued now.

 

[Tribune]

Cheers guys. It's a symptom of the modern world when I think 'they probably bleach them all so they look uniform at market' rather than 'they're probably just different chickens'.

I always try to go for free range although even that term is ambiguous now. My local butcher sells some sourced directly from a farm. They are double yokers and the colour is noticeably different.