American Reacts to Why US Produced Eggs Are Banned Across the UK & Europe 

Damn those drug filled Eggs!

Russia has banned companies like the Monsanto cartel from operating in Russia. They want their citizenry to be strong.

Brexit is trying hard to change that, stay vigilant!

One of the purposes of brexit was to remove the protections of citizens by eu regulations so that manufacturers would be free to lower food standards to enable higher profits.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣@@edbarrett7692

Cough, halal and kosher slaughter, cough.

@@Zooumberg both of which a grotesque (what sort of god would insist on inflicting unnecessary cruelty) but are subject to regulations in the UK which outlaw the more barbaric elements of the practice.

Some farms are still pretty grotty in the UK, I've had some hens from caged egg farms and they are a mess and the barns are disgusting. But my niece is a herdsman on dairy farms and worked in loads of different places and they've all been great with regards to the cows welfare

@@CW1971 I agree. The worst type of hen cages was banned in the UK in 2012 and it looks like the rest will be banned in the next couple of years, with most big companies voluntarily going free range only driven by consumer demand. The treatment of other living being by humans really is a stain on humanity.

​@@Bungle-UKyeah the cages these days are definitely better than they used to be. 'Enriched' cages I think they're called. Some of the hens I've gotten from those places have been in a right state but they do come right given a bit of time, it's so nice to see them feel grass under their feet for the first time and roll in the dirt having a dust bath 😊

Yes, American cheese is like plastic.

Trying to get proper American cheese here is a nightmare. NOTHING beats it on a burger.

Kraft chese squares areprobably closest you get to fake American cheese @@ronnygibbon

@@ronnygibbon try some Dutch cheese like Edam, Gouda or Leyden, they melt to a similar consistency but actually have real cheese flavour too.

@@HULLGRAFFITI can't find them in the shops here, have to order them online and the prices are mental.

Scots baker here,no to contamination Hygiene always

So agreed. The yolk looks so much tastefull. I just get my eggs of local farmers here and those are cheap and taste great

Private chef/yacht catering here. Couldn't agree more! I'm flabbergasted with remainer propaganda in the comments here too! Even the "Not for EU" stickers are getting them in a frenzy about our food standards diving because of Brexit. (Nothing to do with trading across our soft borders to Northern Ireland who is still a EU member.... noooooo, definitely not 🤦🏼‍♀️)

All eggs in the USA have to be cleaned even if they are labelled free range if they are being sold commercially, the only way your getting non washed eggs is directly from the farm or by getting your own chickens. On top of that "free range" itself is just another big con, when people say free range they are generally meaning pasture raised instead. Free range chickens are kept in better conditions than caged hens but they only get around 2-3 feet of space each and live half of their time outside while pasture raised hens have around 110 square feet. There is free range, Organic and Pasture hens and they allean different things.

@@LawfullSpook - and if you want to go even higher, check the "Demeter" standard.

Dont be too sure. If there is money to be made. They will sell us out. Dont want to open Brexit debate but. But worrying all our standards can be reviewed. I dont trust politicians. On all sides

I wouldn't be so sure, especially with the current Conservative government. Brexit was about getting out of the protections of the EU, and getting closer to the states. Won't be long till were receiving this crap. Anyone who thought different is dumb

That's the core benefit for the Vulture-like capitalists that conned us into believing Brexit was a good thing. If they isolate the population, they can sell us any old tat 'cos the government will trade with whoever it can...

Unfortunately they did lower it, Cumberland sausage slices now say not for EU. I am not happy about it but I still eat it as it’s made in uk from non UK meats but doesn’t tell you which country it’s from. Yet corn beef slices from same store tell me it’s made for the UK and it’s from Brazil.

@@NicholasJH96 The "not for EU" label isn't as sinister as you'd think. It's an Ireland thing (at the moment anyway). Shipping into the EU requires extra paperwork and such, so with Ireland/Northern Ireland where we have a soft border, products need labelling to keep them where they're legally allowed to be. It's also simpler for manufacturers to simply make a single set of packaging, resulting in Britain seeing this packaging too. At least right now, the "not for EU" label does not in fact indicate a drop in standards, however bad it looks.

If we sold eggs to the US. they wouldn't be able to sell Any of there own

Yeah, definitely a backwards way to do it!

Australia too

Totally different flavour eggs from your own hens, especially when they are so fresh they are still warm from the chicken. We used to keep chickens when I was a kid and I remember being shocked how different shop bought eggs were.

Yeah, now that's fresh! :)

Sorry but that's grim - was it still warm? 🤢 I watched one lay an egg several years ago & haven't been able to eat eggs since.

@@GG-mu4wg I suppose butchering a chicken for the pot would be totally out of the question then. Kind of pathetic really.

@@schrodingerscat1863 Pathetic to be repulsed by killing animals and contracting chicken oraphaces? OK Dahmer..

It's a common thing, I know of several youtubers who have reported a change in health when living in the UK/EU and then regressing when visiting the US.

Yeah I don't doubt it one bit!

@@reactingtomyroots I think the law in regards to labeling are the biggest reason for this.

​​@@LimerickWarrior1and the dozens of ingredients that are outright banned for use in food in the UK/EU but still classed as safe in the US makes a difference too

​@@reactingtomyroots TBH - YOU actually 'get it' - The FDA and 'Big Pharma' are ALL in the pockets of poiticians and industry... The 'Almighty Dollar' is all America knows and it 'Rules the Roost' (pun intended !!! 😂😂😂).

I'm a londoner and I remember 2 years ago on our way to Bede, Cornwall we bought Duck eggs by the Roadsides, I th8nks 30 eggs was about 3:50£ ..very yummy🎉

If only the Medical standards agency had the same standards,unfortunatly they get nearly 90% of their budget from the people theyre supposed to be regulating.

​@@stevenmutumbu2860Before we moved to where we live now we used to have ducks in our back garden. They were shut in the duck shed at night due to foxes. We used to get 5 eggs a day from them. But when we moved to a council house we live in now it only had a corner garden (it's large according to other people) so there was not enough room for both the dogs and ducks. So we gave them away to the family that owned a shop where we bought the layers pellets for the ducks. I miss them but it was better to give them to someone who had room for them.

I'm sorry to hear that because I've always leaved in the Capitals cities which is so Hectic,I honestly love uptown love will definitely do farming later in my life anytime I go away from London I feel more peace but when back even 15 min its like Hell police and AMBULANCES sirens killing us Slowly.

@@stevenmutumbu2860 True story, I actually heard a siren last month in our village. Dunno what it was about. As for London I visit a couple of times a year. I love the hustle and bussle of the capital for a couple of days, but then can't wait to get home. I don't think I could ever contemplate living there.

In America you only need 10% cocca in milk chocolate but in the UK it needs to be 25% to be called chocolate, this can be much higher in some European countries. As someone who has lived in theUS and the UK I can say that British chocolate/candy is so much better than American. There are some foods that America does better but your chocolate is rubbish to be honest

@@davidmellish3295 - true, EU regs are stating that "milk chocolate" aka the chocolate with the lowest cocoa parts has still to be a min. of 25%. However, gotta blame the germans for that sweet stuff...

I bet!

I always look forward to eating out when I travel to the US, but somehow my appetite gets smaller and smaller the longer I stay there. I always end up feeling glad to get back to the UK and enjoying my food again.

A lot of the time even the specific farm the product is from is marked on the packaging in some way, be it the actual name of the farm or a numerical code you can look up

Even a change in water can cause constipation tho

food in the US didn't cause constipation for me... more like my butt exploded for days on end...

@@wallythewondercorncake8657 The code even contains the stable code. This is on farms with two or more stables. Multiple stable are more income efficient as the production highs and lows can overlap and produce a steadier income.

Free range means that there's 10,000 chickens running around a barn I hate the word free range it's not what you think it is before you say anything look it up

You are right that most are Free Range, and yes I believe that means thousands of chickens run around a barn, but you didn’t say anything that differs from that. Thank you for your post. We do T know what people think I guess

⁠​⁠@@yick39free range in the Uk means that they must have continuous daytime access to runs which are mainly covered with vegetation and they must also live half their total life time outdoors, and no more than 13 birds per square metre and no more than 2,500 birds per hectare which is about the size of 2 football pitches, which is not 10,000 birds in a barn

>I pay 2 .euro77 c for 6 large organic egges

£1.50 half dozen at my local farm. Im super lucky to have this practically on my door step

You can buy 1 egg at my local morrisons

I kept free range hens. They do eat grass. Also worms and insects.

Sorry, yes of course they eat worms, insects but they also peck at grass, dandelions, clover, weeds etc, etc and any grains, corn given whole or in pellet form.

​​@@josephturner7569you are correct they mainly eat insects and worms but I think we all know what is meant by grass fed chicken it's a common term.

I think the difference is Americans would be shocked if the eggs were dirty, whereas in the UK/EU we'd be suspicious if they were pristine. Finding a feather in an egg box is seen as a sign of freshness and quality.

How much longer people can afford to buy free range eggs with the current inflation crisis.

That's good!

@@noseboop4354, its not inflation, its over printing of our money which is now plastic, think of greece pre 2002 when people litterally had to spend hundreds of drachma to buy a loaf of bread, yes its inflating because they over printed the money. We used to have banking books with written unchangeable amounts now we have computers, that can change any amout at the press of a button.

​@@noseboop4354 Have you compared the prices? Free range eggs are not that expensive. My health is first. I'm a disabled person, living on benefits. I prioritise my food over other buys. It's a matter of priorities.

To be fair they don't bleach chicken these days in America ........ they acid wash them now, still ain't going in my mouth though!

The UK is in Europe.

@@condorone1501 This RU-vidr always seem to think that the subjects discussed apply ONLY to the U.K. and not the rest of Europe so I was making that point to him.

​@@philipmason9537I don't think he thinks that as all. It's just that his channel concentrates on the UK and Ireland. He literally says 'the UK and Europe' numerous times when comparing it to the USA in this video. The narrator of the video he's watching also makes it clear that it's in the rest of Europe/, rest of the world too.

I get UK/European eggs and stick them in the fridge anyway. They last even longer that way.

@@jonathanj8303 Yes, but you are an end user. When you put them into the fridge, they leave it only when you are going to prepare food with them. When you store eggs in a fridge, then take them out for a while, then store them again, it will lead to potential issues, which is why eggs are not allowed to be refrigerated UNTIL they reach the customer, but customers can refrigerate them if they want to. Just don't store them on the doors of the fridge! When you open the fridge doors, the eggs are affected by the warm air of outside and that can cause thermal shock. If not, it can still cause small amount of water vapor to accumulate on them which is bad (part of the reason why eggs are mostly stored in cardboard which absorbs moisture very well).

That's because the shells aren't washed to remove the protective 'bloom' which stops the shells absorbing bacteria. I've seen Americans react in complete horror that anyone should 'scrape the bowl' and eat what's left after putting the cake or cookie mix in the oven (the best bit of baking as we all know!), but I've been doing it for nearly 60 years and never had the slightest ill effect.

Yeah I had the same thing, I let them know that the UK has around 5,000 cases of salmonella per year, where as the US has 1.3 million.

With the worst poverty crisis in decades, we'll see how much longer UK people can afford free range eggs.

@@noseboop4354 I work part time for minimum wage but when it comes to eggs, I won't compromise. I would rather go without than buy battery eggs.

@@bojo88 Same here. I buy my eggs from the farm shop and would rather eat fewer than buy anything remotely 'factory' farmed. As it happens they are not that much more expensive than the supermarket ones so it's not a big sacrifice.

Also animals in captivity won't reproduce, they have to go the extra mile by providing the right diet environment and housing, if all that fails they artificially induce pregnancy And they wonder why the phenomenon of people especially in Europe not having children explains a lot

@@noseboop4354in my supermarket the free range eggs are the cheapest. The only other variety is organic free range. It’s not worth trying to sell factory farmed eggs because nobody would buy them.

US beef also tends to be corn fed tasteless meat, hence why Americans have to cover their meat in sauces and gravy

I once bought a steak from the US. Never again. Tasted absolutely horrible, I threw it away after one bite. There was a bitter artificial flavor to it. Nothing like the beef in Europe. I then realized why every steak recipe from the US involves covering the damn steak in a thick layer of rub that hides the meat flavor.

I wouldn't buy any American food in Europe at all. My health is first.

Here in the UK it's quite common for me to have eggs for months before eating them. The last time I had an egg go "off" was over 40 years ago. If you just have them in their natural packaging (shell) they seem to last for ages.

Worryingly some of our regulations were only set in stone if we remained part of the EU, a lot of our food standard regulations were tied to EU legislation and will likely be challenged by food producers post-Brexit

@@24magiccarrot If we want to continue exporting to the EU those standards will still be enforced.

@@KenFullman They don't need to be enforced with food sold domestically or to non-EU countries. Other countries have companies that have a two-tier standard for their food production one that adheres to their own guidelines and one that adheres to EU guidelines. But more importantly, it means supermarkets can look to import from non-EU countries that have lower standards and the overseas company won't need to change their production to sell to us. During the Brexit negotiations, Jeremy Corbyn proposed we maintain EU standards as a minimum, and it was shot down immediately by the Tories. They didn't shut it down without the intent of allowing reduced food standards

@@24magiccarrot You do know that even before the EU your standards were higher, it was the EU who had to raise their standards to meet yours and not the other way around. Even now your standards are still HIGHER than the minimum EU standards are.

We didn't generally have home refridgerators in the UK until the early 60s, or frozen food for that matter, the USA had them decades earlier. Larders were used here to keep things cool - often a small room/cupboard in the kitchen with airbricks/wire gauze to the outside, allowing cool air to circulate. In warm weather, food was sometimes kept cool by a bowl inside a bowl with water, and a damp teatowel on top.

In the us the eggs get washed before going to the store, doing so they remove a protecting layer of the eggshell. This is why us eggs have to be refrigerated and on our side of the pond you can store them outside the fridge.

If unwashed, last a while if there isn't a steady demand

Where on the wirral did you grow up? I've lived here for 26 years now and i couldn't imagine living anywhere else

@@michaelcole-hamer607 Eastham...

this fr though

Exactly they don’t want to spend money on vaccines for the chickens which i guess are more expensive than washing the eggs!

That’s just not true. We’re doing the same experimebt as the US with hyper-processed food, vegetable oil and margarines and sugar in everything. That’s the entire cause of the obesity and diabetes epidemic.

@@soylentgreenb it is more true than not. Fats, sugar and additives have been cut down so much that you can virtually buy any "light" version of most foods. It's up to the consumer to boycott processed foods, to change things. Trouble is, even a pack of ham is classed as processed , and not everyone can afford the raw ham to cook themselves.

@@soylentgreenb "Risk of causing cancer" is enough to get something banned in the EU. It's not in the US though, which is why artificial colors are as a whole either banned, or attatched to a warning in the EU, while they're perfectly fine in the US.

I’m guessing you didn’t bother to watch the video?

@@no-oneinparticular7264If the only choice in the supermarket is over sweetened bread then that’s what is bought. Guess which country has normal sliced bread that could be mistaken for cake.

All my mom family is from a farm 4th generation. Here in city, we re trying to buy farm products on markets or supermarkets...

they are also the smartest, outstanding in their field!

@@briz1965 I see what you did there.

Very true!

I have seen free range egg farms, and i would not call the living conditions for the chicken good. They are still cramped together in very little space.

I don't go by the dates on eggs at all. If I am not sure whether an egg is okay to eat or not I put it in a bowl of cold water. If it sinks it is fine, if not it has gone off.

@@rachelpenny5165 Same here. I don't know why people panic so over storing eggs as it's simple enough to avoid eating a bad one.

And she has to know quality in France Italy Belgium...

USA is the only rich country where Health is not a Right in Constitution...even poor countries have it

I have lived in the US multiple times for work ( British military) and trust me, she is absolutely correct.

I've a friend who's originally from the US. Now when she goes back even if she only buys organic and makes her own bread - or buys from small bakeries - she still finds herself being ill after a week or so. Then when she returns here it takes her a month or more to recover and get back to being herself again. Even their organic food is contaminated with something (and she's largely vegetarian, ONLY vegetarian when she goes to the US) which causes her serious health issues

Agree, when I was 17yrs old I worked in a riding stables, lived in a chalet next to a stream, we kept our milk suspended in the water to keep cool!

I had a yoghurt last week that was 5 days out of date. Smelled and tasted fine, didnt get ill at all. Its a con to keep u at the supermarket. Obviously food does go off, but theres so much waste these days its unreal. Wheres the just stop food waste protestors at?

Not sure if there is chickens that lay eggs with a blue shell but there is certainly a breed of ducks that do, they’re delicious aswell. Smaller than a chicken egg but bigger than a Quayle egg but so so tasty

more to do with what the birds eat than the breed

The colour of the shell does depend on the breed; I have dark brown (Burford Browns), orange (Chestnut Marans), white, and blue (Bluebell Araucanas) in my larder, and have in the past had green eggs - I forget which breed they were!@@georgebarnes8163

​@@perry714. Quayle is Anthony Quayle (actor) _Quail_ is the small game bird. (I don't think Anthony_Quayle lays _eggs_ of any colour !!😊)

@@georgebarnes8163 no, that has to do with the yolk's color, that goes from pale yellow to reddish orange due to the accumulation of pigments present in the chickens' diet. In fact, organic egg yolks use to be paler. Shell color is always on the chicken's breed. Just do some research.

If the hen is afflicted by salmonella, the egg has it inside. Washing your hands won't do you any good. Eggs in Europe can be eaten raw because there is no salmonella at the source (the chickens themselves). At that point, there is little need to wash your hands as well. Just lightly wash the eggs before you crack them raw if you can clearly see stuff sticking to them.

@maynardssoblue3839 No they aren't. Did you not watch the video where it said they are not washed here?

Hi, from Camborne area!! Glad you're sending Steve some items, he watched a video recently on St Ives!

@thomasmumw8435 Yeah, I commented on that one and the Eden project, which I'm not far from, I'm hoping Steve has a kettle as I've sent Cornish tea and coffee, my American brother in law heated water in the microwave and never drank tea or coffee, couldn't get my head around that, I've also put some proper chocolate in 😋 we are very lucky here in the UK and especially lucky living in a rural village, my boys and I had fun putting a box together, im teaching them a little kindness and doing something nice, in a crazy world, goes a long way 🥰

That's so awesome! Very much appreciated. :) My daughter's gonna be excited. haha

Makes sense!

Most of the regulations came from the EU and ordinary people weren't consulted at all. The UK politicians had no say in it really, it was either accept the EEC/EU regulations or lose access to the common market. Fortunately for the most part EU food standards were well considered and good. Also voting in first past the post elections in the UK rarely has any real effect. Due to the split of parties and the boundaries, on average each MP in the UK was only elected by 40% of the voters in the constituency. Then due to the split of seats the vote of each person has differing electoral power in each constituency. The smallest constituency is around 22,000 voters while the largest is 110,000 voters. The voting power of each voter in the smallest constituency is 5 times greater than that of the voter in the largest constituency. Then the government is formed from a majority of parliamentary seats which can be razor thin, just one seat. So probably somewhat less than a third of all votes actually matter in forming the government. On top of that, 9 million people aren't even registered to vote and of the people who are on average only around 70% actually do. So our "democratically elected" government is elected by about a 1/3 of 70% of the registered voters, and registered voters only make up around 86% of the population. Every vote certainly does not count.

Battery farming is still allowed in the UK, it just isn't done much now because most people only buy free range eggs these days. You will find the cheap supermarket eggs are still intensively farmed.

a young mom at work told a story about peeling off the skin from pigs shank and found her 3yo kid playing with it after fallen onto floor i said to her bet she loved it the tuff skin and gooee fat made a great texture combo and a 3yo NEEDS fats

The fresher the egg, the harder it is to keep in one piece when cooking (generally speaking).

Technically true, but guess which country led the charge on getting those laws and regulations passed?

We've always been ahead of the EU in animal welfare. For instance I would never buy any bacon that wasn't British because of the inhumane way pigs are kept in European countries. Look up their multi-storey factory farms where sows are in cages where they can't even turn around and their piglets have to come under the bars to suckle. It makes me feel sick. We have never had such practices in our country. We also don't go in for force feeding geese or transporting horses for days on end with no respite, food or water so that they are half dead when they arrive for slaughter. We don't eat horses full stop. When new rules were brought in regarding cage sizes for egg production a blind eye was turned to the fact that EU farmers failed to comply, while our farmers almost bankrupted themselves in order to follow the directives.

@@cyflym11 I thoroughly agree.

@@TheBaconWizard Thank you. And let's not forget when the French farmers were on strike and protested against British export of sheep by setting fire to a lorry and burning 219 sheep alive which is such a horrifically cruel act I can barely believe anyone would even consider it. They also poisoned 94 sheep on another truck, slit the throats of sheep on another and doused others with insecticide. Another thing they did was throw live British sheep at French police shields. It beggars belief that any of these barbarians could call themselves farmers. No British farmer would consider treating any animal like that. Yet gullible fools actually think that the EU has been keeping US in line with regards to animal welfare! So much brainwashing and they lapped it up.

@@cyflym11 Well the EU definitely enforces animal welfare and food standards at a level way out-of-reach for most USA producers. But the UK were always a major driving force in increasing those standards, writing legislation etc. And as you've rightly said, when given the legislation we go by the letter and others kinda sorta think about it if they can be bothered. This goverment have saught to do-away with those standards, that being one of many "advantages" to Brexit, but our farming community and general public don't want it.

I do and always have.

@@g-man4297 I think they mean in the supermarket? I keep mine in the fridge after purchase.

We dont as they're porous.

@@TheGramophoneGirl That's what I mean, once home they go in the fridge.

They shouldn't be in the fridge.

Shell colour is determined by the breed of hen.

hahaha. I guess they don't know that a hen can lay both white and brown eggs. does your partner also reuse to eat red cabbage?

It is the breed of hen that determines the hen. I bought some blue shelled o e the other week. Guessing your partner would have freaked. Washing doesn't affect shell colour, genetics does.

Why? That's so weird! 😂 one of my hens lays blue eggs. They're all pretty much the same. I honestly can't taste the difference between shop eggs and my own hens eggs but everyone who buys eggs from me says they taste much better than shop eggs but there is literally no difference going by shell colour

Different Breeds of hen different shades of colour to eggs , I bought light blue organic eggs last week.

That has nothing to do with it. It because it's illegal for any food item to contain a non-food item within it in the United States. Also, those plastic shells are not particularly good for smuggling drugs as they are too hard. A few layers of plastic wrap and a couple of condoms works much better. If the package it more malleable then it's a lot easier to swallow and pass afterwards. It also allows you to make longer and thinner packages too, which actually makes it possible to fit a lot more drugs in each package. It's a lot harder to detect softer packages with a longer shape as well because it has more natural appearance on any scanning device capable of detecting it internally.

@@CiaraOSullivan1990 if that so why do breakfast cereals have toys in them?. i think real reason kinder eggs are banned is amercian kids are too stupid to realise your not supposed to eat the toy

White chicken produce white eggs. Most of our hens are brown so produce brown eggs. No big mystery.

@egriffiths8993 OK, but some eggs are browner than others. Does that mean that the chicken is browner? In either case I still feel like the browner eggs have the deeper more flavourful yolks. Is there a link in the colour, or something genetically different about paler chickens that produce eggs that look and taste different?

​@Trippitaka2 No, in the UK you can buy mixed white and brown eggs in the same box. They taste the same. Your mind is saying brown eggs yum because up eat that colour mostly. However, in the USA the eggs do taste quite bland compared to the UK and France, i have US relatives. The US bread also tastes really weird because it's made with corn syrup !!

@markjohn4203 I've had eggs in the US a lot of times too, so maybe I am just associating bland pale American eggs with those white shells.

Ok children, settle down for some history. What determines the colour of the eggshell is just simply the breed of chicken that lays it. There are breeds with white eggs, reddish brown eggs, yellowish brown eggs, green eggs, blue eggs, etc etc. That's all, nothing more strange than the corgi equivalent chicken have different looking eggs from a poodle equivalent chicken. So, back in the day, Victorian/Edwardian type long ago. Whiteness was all the rage. White foods were more sophisticated, more genteel, just the prettiest. So white shelled eggs brought a premium price at the market. While brown eggs, as those are the most common shell colours, were... Well... A bit common, dirty, good enough for the farmers and country folks perhaps. But not really for a more discerning urban person with standards. So yeah, white eggs became the norm. Even in the UK. Because farmers aren't stupid. If them stuck up city folks pay more for a white egg, we'll keep those breeds of chicken that lays those eggs. Then somewhere round the 1980-ies 1990-ies, and some of us who remember such distant past are still alive, the whole factory farming and animal cruelty especially in egg production. Became something people actually cared about. By now since pretty much all production eggs were white egg breed hens, brown eggs breeds were mostly the domain of people who keep their own chickens in the garden, who got nerdy about preserving old country breeds. Kinda like the breeds with blueish and greenish eggs are from breeds not common in production farming today. But can be found in a chicken fancier's coop. Thus bown eggs got the association of laid by happy hens. Non-caged hens that roam the farmyard (or garden) freely picking in the dirt and eating bugs. And white eggs associated with atrocious conditions of the factory farm. Since farmers again aren't stupid, over the next decade, switched to predominantly brown eggs breeds. As those now bring the premium price. So here we are now. In the UK. The standard egg on the supermarket shelf is brown, and there is a general distrust of white eggs. Even if people don't remember why they distrust white eggs. Or were not alive when this change happened and have picked it up from previous generations.