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It's not just colour acting as an equaliser, but people being unable to distinguish when you take yolk colour out of the equation entirely.

From the linked thread:

> "blindfolded tasters couldn’t really tell the difference between fresh pastures backyard eggs and 2-week old supermarket eggs"

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Who were the participants? Random people off the street, or professional tasters who actually pay attention to what they're eating?

Hard to believe that discerning people exist!

It's the same as the claims that no one knows they are sick for weeks before symptoms. If you're unhealthy and living with that, yeah, I guess you might not notice feeling off

> no one knows they are sick for weeks before symptoms

Weeks? Regular colds and flu have incubation periods of just a few days. Diseases with incubation periods measured in weeks tend to be the more serious ones that don't occur often enough (thankfully) to be used as a good comparison point.

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