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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 3628688, member: 1329"] Blind taste tests show that overwhelming majority of people cannot tell the difference between farm fresh, organic, or free range eggs blind. And of the small minority that can, some of that portion prefer supermarket eggs unknowingly anyways. Which means the portion of people that can both tell AND prefer them when blind is tiny. So, no, sorry, you probably can't tell the difference in quality, fresh eggs on just the taste alone. BUT your brain does [I]perceives[/I] a difference in quality anyways, that doesn't actually exist. Psychology of taste (and most things) is HIGHLY, highly susceptible. So just the fact that you approve of the circumstances of the product will make you like it more. And higher investment in a product (monetarily, time, etc.) will make you like it more, too. There's been a million studies on this. The color is one big influence for eggs, but so is the free range aspect. So even though those eggs were paler, you still got some juicy brain chemicals flowing for the free range and farm fresh concepts. So here's the thing. Do they taste better to you? Yes, I bet they do. If you didn't know they were farm fresh eggs but they were would they still have tasted as good? Likely not. But in this case, the lie may as well be the truth, since that's what you perceive. [/QUOTE]