[jve]

I worked for a few years at egg manufacturing plant. I was entitled to quite some eggs per month. I also had access / relatives who would give us some home chicken eggs. Personally, I don't taste any difference. Yeah, the yolk is different color, but I don't bother.

But I'm a point in statistics where I'm not someone who can do taste tests as I cannot discern slight changes in recipe.

I live in a baltic state and as for tomatoes, I always enjoy when someone gives home-grown ones. When it is season they are OK in supermarket too. But nothing beats homegrown ones. However when there is no season, I don't like market tomatoes - "tastes as rubber".

> Norway is not part of the EU and can have it's own, more strict rules.

EU doesn't prevent having more strict rules than baseline they set.

[throwaway48540]

EU does prevent stricter rules. If a product meeting regulations can't be sold somewhere in the single market area, it's grounds for EU court case. That's why all the food producing states like Austria, France, Italy go around it with tax breaks and "product of X" stamps.

Note that while a state can have stricter rules for production, they can't prevent import and sale of products from less strict states of the single market area.