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Thats not the truth with eggs either if you compare relevant things.

The difference is flavor is not related to housing or weather they had their butts massaged by pandas.

For example, there is a couple we know that has a few dozen chickens. They have a coop and a small enclosed area. The chickens are let out once in a rare while but for the most part kept in a 1/2 acre plot. According to the dirty cramped housing theory their chickens and eggs should taste much better than “factory” farm eggs.

Their eggs are absolutely disgusting. They keep their birds locked up until they are into maturity. They dont readily identify “wild” food. The chickens eat a low grade budget crumble. If you throw a worm their way they stand terrorized wondering what the worm is going to do. Their eggs taste like the smell of hot wet corrugated cardboard. These eggs are much worse than “factory” eggs.

My personal flocks are let out within days of hatching. They dont say what they eat but it has to be almost exclusively bugs and weeds along with any corn left from last year that the crows, cranes, and wild geese havent picked up. I do not hire pandas to rub their butts. I open the door in the morning so they can go to work. I close the door at night so the raccoons cant come to work. They dont tell me where they go but I know that some go quite far to feed on things like wild grapes, gooseberries, junebugs, and whatever else mother nature puts on the menu. There are kitchen scraps and sometimes that box of smashed week old donuts I picked up for 25 cents. My eggs, not really the whites but especially the yolks, taste entirely different and significantly better than “factory” eggs.

‘They dont say what they eat but it has to be almost exclusively bugs and weeds along with any corn left from last year that the crows, cranes, and wild geese havent picked up’

Chickens are ultimate omnivores, they eat anything, including you if you happen to die in their coop. They eat living like dead things, the worms in the cow poop and the poop itself. By all accounts and unless a lot of fortunate chance ( I mean a lot!), the eggs of free range chickens, especially yours who don’t tell, should be disgusting compared to eggs from chickens in controlled environment with controlled and optimised feed. But as I said, I have found no difference IN BLIND TESTS and have always found that those who said otherwise always fail to taste a difference when submitted to the test.

I don’t doubt you find your eggs better than industrial eggs. What I doubt is that you have a rational explanation for that serependitously superior taste , that you did real blind tests or that your exceptional taste buds are the norm and not the exception.