# My sister just found four double-yolked eggs out of a dozen. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 19, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-just-found-four-double-yolked-eggs-out-of-a-dozen/490081 "2009-03-19T21:56:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-just-found-four-double-yolked-eggs-out-of-a-dozen/490081/21 "2009-03-20T15:17:28Z")
> [@sundog66](#): > > I have bought a dozen extra-large eggs every week for the past three years\* and have never gotten a double yolk. I feel left out. > > Do some egg producers really separate them out? How can they tell it’s a double yolk? Do they take an x-ray? Try getting jumbo eggs. The packers can tell the double-yolk eggs by holding them up to a bright light - it’s called candling. The producers might now, but they aren’t talking. _cluck, cluck_ ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-just-found-four-double-yolked-eggs-out-of-a-dozen/490081/22 "2009-03-20T15:44:48Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > It really freaks me out that you came so close to guessing what city she lives in. I know I’m not supposed to be evil anymore, but I may have to send my last couple of flying monkeys out your way to make sure you don’t pose a threat. 😃 I said “Bristol, VA” because I’m thinking about a road trip and was just looking at a map and thinking it’d be a good place to spend the night. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-just-found-four-double-yolked-eggs-out-of-a-dozen/490081/23 "2009-03-20T15:55:39Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > 😃 I said “Bristol, VA” because I’m thinking about a road trip and was just looking at a map and thinking it’d be a good place to spend the night. You’re only saying that because you’re surrounded by winged monkeys carrying flame-throwers. ---
**Author:** ![myselfkeepsslippingaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/54ee81/32.png) [@myselfkeepsslippingaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myselfkeepsslippingaway)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-just-found-four-double-yolked-eggs-out-of-a-dozen/490081/24 "2009-03-20T19:12:22Z")
One of the farm markets on the route to my parents’ house sells cartons of double yolk eggs. When all our rather large family used to go to their house for holidays (before they moved to a too-small condo), part of my routine was to stop on the way down to buy a couple dozen. Several people (myself included) like yolks better than (or to the exclusion of) whites, so they were great for Sunday breakfast - twice as much of the good stuff! It was one of those small, special things that people always seemed to take a particular pleasure in. I haven’t bought them for over a year, but they were indeed slightly more expensive (perhaps an extra fifty cents or so), and worth it. / side comment / My parents grew up on farms, and my father tells of at one point feeding their chickens some sort of harmless colorant in their food, so that when the eggs were collected their yolks were green instead of yellow. He reports that his mother was duly puzzled at breakfast time. / end side comment / [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-sister-just-found-four-double-yolked-eggs-out-of-a-dozen/490081.md?page=1)