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For all egg lovers out there, have you ever wondered why are some eggs brown and some white? This question has been stuck in the back of my head for some time and I've finally found the answer!

Let me begin with a simple analogy: If you had a baby, what color would it be? The same is true for the chicken world! White eggs come from white chickens, and brown eggs come from brown-ish chickens!

Let's get weird for a second and pretend you have a chicken sitting beside you. Imagine this crazy chicken is kind of an off-white brownish yellow. You're no chicken expert and you have no idea what breed you're looking at. Here's the secret to predicting the color of eggs a chicken will lay: look at their earlobes! This is true stuff! The pigments in the outer layer of the eggshell will always approximate the color of the earlobe of the chicken that laid the egg.

A natural follow-up question would be "Is one color of egg healthier than the other?" According to the Egg Nutrition Center in Washington, D.C., the answer is a pretty firm "no". The color of the shell has nothing to do with egg quality, nutritional value or flavor. They say the reason brown eggs cost more is because the brown-egg variety of chickens are bigger eaters and cost more to feed. The cost is then pushed forward to the consumer. I happen to believe the real reason is that the health food industry is perpetuating the myth that brown eggs are healthier. There, I said it.

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That goes to say with the myth of men having 1 less rib than women! You think so? Simple illustration: Let's just say that you meet with an accident and the doctor amputates your leg, does it mean that your child would be born with a leg less too? Ahhhhhh. Wisdom haha! But if you truly have doubts, click here to find out more for yourselves!

Back to the egg mystery, have you wondered where century egg comes from? Some of you smart fellas would know but I don't! So google google googled, and tada!

Wikipedia: A century egg or thousand-year-old egg is preserved by fermenting an egg in a mixture of clay, wood ash, salt, lime, and rice straw for several weeks to several months, depending on the method of processing.

Mmmm. I've always thought that century eggs came from ducks.

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