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Commercially bred white chickens that lay white eggs lay about 320 eggs per bird per year. Brown egg laying birds tend to only lay around 200 eggs per year per bird. Both cost the same to feed and house so the cost per egg is more. Add onto that that people seem to think that brown eggs equates to 'farm fresh/grass fed/free range/pasture raised/etc' and the stores price the eggs to match what people believe they are (but aren't).
With that said, I taste no difference between white and brown eggs from the store. Because they are raised the same way and fed the same crap feed. Now backyard chickens, DO taste different from store bought, especially ones that are truly 'free range' and get most of their nutritional needs from what they find themselves in the ground. Change what goes in and you get a different taste coming out. But even backyard eggs taste the same no matter what their exterior color is.
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