The odds of finding an egg with a double yolk are pretty rare. Only 0.1 percent of all eggs have two yolks. So, if you’re Fiona Exton, from Cumbria in Great Britain, I suggest you play the lottery. When she went down to her local Morrisons to pick up a carton of eggs for breakfast, she discovered that all six of the eggs in the carton had double yolks. Gaming company William Hill gives that feat trillion-to-one odds, so obviously Fiona is on a hot streak!
Apparently double yolk eggs are more common in younger chickens, and tend to be larger in size, which explains why those six double yolk eggs were grouped together. Eggs are sorted by size, after all. Still, I can’t remember seeing one double yolk egg, let alone six of them all in the same carton. That’s going to be one high cholesterol scramble!
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