Hotel Breakfast Eggs Get Watered Down And Dyed—And Have A 98 Day Shelf Life [Roundup]

News and notes from around the interweb: Hotel breakfast eggs at all but the top places are disgusting. I love the eggs at the Park Hyatt Paris! But, A lot of hotels and cafeterias pour them from a carton of Papetti’s Breakfast Blend. The spec sheet reads whole eggs, 19% water, then under 2% of salt, xanthan gum, citric acid, annatto color and natural butter flavor. Papetti’s is part of Michael Foods, one of the biggest egg processors in the country. Every ingredient has a job on a steam table. Xanthan gum holds the added water in the egg so it doesn’t weep into the pan. Citric acid keeps the eggs from turning gray or green under a heat lamp. Annatto puts back the yolk color the water washed out. The butter flavor is there because nobody is going to add butter. The carton keeps for 98 days in the cooler. The scrambled eggs at a hotel breakfast are 19% water, and they’re dyed. A lot of hotels and cafeterias pour them from a carton of Papetti’s Breakfast Blend. The spec sheet reads whole eggs, 19% water, then under 2% of salt, xanthan gum, citric acid, annatto color and natural butter flavor. Papetti’s is part of Michael Foods, one of the biggest egg processors in the country. Every ingredient has a job on a steam table. Xanthan gum holds the added water in the egg so it doesn’t weep into the pan. Citric acid keeps the eggs from turning gray or green under a heat lamp. Annatto puts back the yolk color the water washed out. The butter flavor is there because nobody is going to add butter. The carton keeps for 98 days in the cooler. The plain version from the same company is whole eggs, whey, skim milk, xanthan and citric acid, with almost no added water and half the sodium. — The Food Manufacturing Guy (@TipOfTheBanana) October 24, 2026 JetBlue flies from New York LaGuardia to Fort Lauderdale, Orlando and to Donald J. Trump (like the airport is now a city). West Palm Beach (PBI) by u/ReferenceOk1702 in Airports Because nobody’s ever made that Aer Lingus joke before… A cunning move by Aer Lingus 😉 — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 25, 2026 Citi adds Star Alliance member Copa as a transfer partner. Rove added them last month. Book Emirates business class to Dubai for 80,000 miles with no fuel surcharges, and United’s prmeium transcon business class saver awards for 25,000 miles. 10% bonus transferring Citibank points to Cathay Pacific Asia Miles throgh November 14, 2026. A United Airlines spooky Halloween. American Airlines asks DOT to extend its right to fly to the Philippines. It partners with Philippine Airlines, which is joining oneworld, but does not currently fly to Manila… Wow, this is as bad as AI answers in Google. Meanwhile, frontier models haven’t claimed there are only two r’s in strawberry for quite some time… Siri is as dialed as ever https://t.co/j9t9c7aopF — Colin Landforce 🛠 (@landforce) October 26, 2026 Topics on this page