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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

thanks to janaatwg for the enlightening info! I believe in scientific facts too :) well, janaatg, can you help me answer this question: my mom cracked an egg with the egg white part a neonish yellow!!!??? we didn't eat it because it looked kinda toxic...

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54 Miso Soup Variations

My host mom in Ehime prefecture would add sliced onions in the miso soup she makes for breakfast. Ever since I came back home, I've been doing the same, plus pumpkin sometimes too. The onions in miso soup is truly delicious.

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Trader Jose's Organic Rounds Place First in Flour-Tortilla Taste Test

Trader Joe's flour tortillas and breads taste better than supermarket brands because they don't add in dough conditioners, which add a funny taste and smell (you can actually smell it). Most deli wraps have that unpleasant "doughy" taste as well. I wish restaurants and delis would make their wraps from fresh tortillas that don't have any additives in them. They taste so much better, fresher that way.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Southside Market Sausage

In New York City, I really like Dinosaur's BBQ and their sides :)

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

thanks to janaatwg for the enlightening info! I believe in scientific facts too :) well, janaatg, can you help me answer this question: my mom cracked an egg with the egg white part a neonish yellow!!!??? we didn't eat it because it looked kinda toxic...

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54 Miso Soup Variations

My host mom in Ehime prefecture would add sliced onions in the miso soup she makes for breakfast. Ever since I came back home, I've been doing the same, plus pumpkin sometimes too. The onions in miso soup is truly delicious.

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Trader Jose's Organic Rounds Place First in Flour-Tortilla Taste Test

Trader Joe's flour tortillas and breads taste better than supermarket brands because they don't add in dough conditioners, which add a funny taste and smell (you can actually smell it). Most deli wraps have that unpleasant "doughy" taste as well. I wish restaurants and delis would make their wraps from fresh tortillas that don't have any additives in them. They taste so much better, fresher that way.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Southside Market Sausage

In New York City, I really like Dinosaur's BBQ and their sides :)

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: Southside Market Sausage

So far as a BBQ newbie...I quite like Dinosaur's. But going to Kansas City in a few weeks and I will probably taste new levels of BBQ beauty.

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Giveaway: D'Artagnan Boneless Heritage Ham

the ham sandwich gotta start on a good slice of bread- something like fresh rye from the russian deli. supermarket bread in plastic tends to be too salty and have a strange taste/smell due to the "dough conditioner" they put in it to keep it soft. and mustard on one side, and mayo on the other :)

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

my favorite brunch food...is probably any salad bar where I can pick whatever I want to eat, from eggs to corn fritters :)

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Win a Free Organic D'Artagnan Turkey Here!

I think chipotle meatballs sound quite delicious! That's what I'll make if I don't win a turkey :)

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Seriously Delicious Holiday Food Giveaway: Russ & Daughters

Brunch at Nan Bei He in Flushing...soy milk soup and flaky savory pastries

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Win Two Passes to the Big Apple Barbecue Party

I've been to Dinosaurs twice, and I loved the ribs there. And the mac & cheese.

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Cookbook Giveaway: 'A Twist of the Wrist'

A packet of Japanese smoked tuna shavings (Bonito) for meaty, smokey, instant flavor. I add it to salads, soups, rice, and pasta.

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

We bought a flat (20) last week from a local organic market and had the same thing happen. All 20 eggs were double yolked. It was the weirdest thing.

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

Whoa - I want that dozen of eggs!!! The yolk is my favorite part!

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

When I was young and impoverished I used to work in an egg packing factory, a horrible job, but it paid well. As people like their eggs uniform my job was to check that the eggs were all the same - they would pass in front of me on a metal grid and a bright light was shone through the eggshells.
Any non-uniform eggs - double yolkers, part fertilised, deformed shells, that sort of thing, were snatched from the line and thrown into a big vat, and taken off to be dried to make egg powder and used in cake manufacturing

Could the egg checker in this case have meant to put the double yolkers on one side for disposal, but made a mistake and packed them instead?

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

THE same exact thing has happened to me!One dozen double yolks in the same dozen.My purchase was from TRADER JOES in SAN DIEGO in May 2009.The eggs are jumbo.

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

when i was a kid we had a chook (that's what we call chickens in AUS) that laid double-yolkers every time

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

Same thing just happened to me! I bought the eggs last night from TJs, but they're only large, not jumbo. Weird!

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

I have never seen a double yoked egg! I remember first hearing about them in an episode of Little House on the Prairie and always wondering if they really exist... Funny how things stick in our memory.

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

I need to share my own double-yolk experience. I live in Paris. I often buy cartons of 30 eggs from our cheese/dairy vendor at the outdoor market. Two weeks ago, every single egg out of 30 had a double yolk. I couldn't believe it! The next time I talked to the vendor, I explained what happened & he said it was normal & that you'll find "twins" in the larger, longer eggs.

So, thanks to the previous comments for reassuring everyone that this is actually nature! And explaining why. Between you & my vendor, I feel no more fear with multiple double-eggs in the same carton! Not a freak thing after all.

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

@shipwreck-It could happen. Keep writing those intrigue/spy novels.

@floodgate11-I think that was a "way too long at the coop" kind of egg.

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

It's a government plot to get everyone to switch to artificial eggs produced in a secret laboratory underground in area 52 next to area 51, using toxic waste. It's all so simple.

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

Total jackpot! Thanks for all the info, guys. My SO LOVES yolks and so do I. I usually don't get jumbo or buy eggs at TJ's but you better believe I am going to do so from now. I have stumbled upon a few double yolks before and was always totally stoked. I would consider myself very lucky to find a whole carton of doubles. Nothing freaky here, just delicious!

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

Echoing brooke29 here...why is this in any way sick or scary? The answer was given...first year layers often lay double yolked eggs. If the eggs all came from the same producer from a certain batch of layers at a certain time, this will happen.

All kinds of crazy things can be laid by inexperienced hens...try...shell-less eggs!

I guess we're all just too used to industrial, sterile food so that when things get back to nature and start looking a little less uniform we think its SICK?

Factory farms sort out all the eggs that don't meet the textbook image of what an egg should be. Eggs that are too long, too squat, too big, too small, unevenly shaped or colored are all picked out in order not to freak out the oh so fragile consumer.

Egg laying is a complex process...you can bet all the things coming out of the hens aren't picture perfect.

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One Dozen Trader Joe's Eggs, Each with a Double Yolk

Whenever I buy jumbo eggs at a local ShopRite, ALL of them always have double yolks, with a very rare exception. I'm not talking about one dozen here - every dozen I buy from there, and it's been this way for at least a couple of years. I don't understand what exactly is sick or creepy about it.

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