In Massachusetts there used to be an ad on TV by the Farming Association. The jingle went "Brown eggs are local eggs, and local eggs are fresh!"
For years and years I believed that all eggs, everywhere, start out brown, and turn white in transport. Therefore, brown eggs are fresher because you know they came from some chicken closeby and was recently lain.
It wasn't until I got to college in New York and found with disgust that all the available eggs were white, that I realized how deeply this prejudice against white eggs had been ingrained. I was 19 and had to consciously remind myself that white eggs are not, by definition, almost rotten.
A childhood belief about general
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that only brown eggs came from chickens. I thought white eggs were made at the store— Destiny
- When I was a kid, I used to believe that cadbury cream eggs real uncooked eggs in the middle Anon
- I used to believe that bunny rabbits hatched from eggs, since the Easter Bunny gave you eggs.— goat
- I used to think the easer bunny was a blue and white cloud guy that hid eggs.— James the Great
- My mom always used to tell me that brown eggs came from brown chickens.— Taylor
- In my youth,I was always convinced that my chocolate easter eggs came from my uncles chicken farm!— Jamsie