You must strain hard when you lay them.
Maybe the untapered ones were delivered by cesarean.
Only if they’re destined for caesarian dressing.
I looked at the Egg Land’s Best in the store, and they are very pointy, just as I remember eggs being. Mine are sorta tapered, but not at all pointy. One end is slighty less rounded than the other on most of 'em, but on others it’s hard to tell. So I guess “pointy” is the defining word here.
I’ll try those Eggland ones next time I buy. Are the yolks dark yellow to orange, as they should be? My egg’s yolks are pale yellow, and they taste pale too.
Eggs are better after they’re at least a few days old. And thin skinned.
I find myself getting pissed, sitting here talking about the Great American Egg Ripoff. 
There was a book I read as a kid, where the chickens could fly and divebombed foxes. Unfortunately the title escapes my memory, but part of the chickens’ anti-fox regimen was to eat lots and lots of calcium to make the shells stronger, thus increasing their efficacy as fox-noggin-smashing objects.
CHICKEN SMASH!
I suspect diet would be why the shells on organic/free range eggs are stronger than the chicken farm eggs.
My eggs are very tapered, and very heartily-shelled. They’re also free range, from chickens that eat whatever things they find in their yard plus corn and other delicious grains. The chickens all have names, and I get to talk to them when I go to buy their eggs, and say thanks. (I think it’s nice to thank the chickens for their eggs.)
When I have to buy supermarket eggs, I find that the commercial “free-range” eggs are less tapered and well-shelled as the ones I normally buy, but still better than the factory farm eggs.
Mine are tapered.
Yay! I almost skipped that link, but I’m glad I didn’t. Someone posted a link to that comic once before and I decided I loved it, but I forgot the website, and the name of the comic, and the thread in which it was mentioned. I’d given up hope of ever finding it again.
The one that got me hooked on it is “No Survivors.”
This time I bookmarked it.
Thanks, Kaitlin.