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Wow, now on a couple of posts people have brought up the egg shell color as a misconception - kinda like brown cows give chocolate milk. It was not that long ago that folks lived off the land. My grandmother was born in a soddie (sod house) and rode a horse to school. My greatgrandmother rode in a covered wagon with her first husband (don't even ask!) and later saw people walk on the moon. How can we be so far away from reality when people think that "store" eggs are better than our eggs?
Maybe I can answer that. My grandparents had a cow, they got milk and made fresh butter for the family. But when margerine came along, it was colored yellow to make it different from real butter. But then folks wanted the yellow color and even butter started being dyed yellow. (at least this is how my mom explained it to me) Now the norm for butter is salted and dyed yellow....
Wow, now on a couple of posts people have brought up the egg shell color as a misconception - kinda like brown cows give chocolate milk. It was not that long ago that folks lived off the land. My grandmother was born in a soddie (sod house) and rode a horse to school. My greatgrandmother rode in a covered wagon with her first husband (don't even ask!) and later saw people walk on the moon. How can we be so far away from reality when people think that "store" eggs are better than our eggs?
Maybe I can answer that. My grandparents had a cow, they got milk and made fresh butter for the family. But when margerine came along, it was colored yellow to make it different from real butter. But then folks wanted the yellow color and even butter started being dyed yellow. (at least this is how my mom explained it to me) Now the norm for butter is salted and dyed yellow....