Pull Yarn from the Center?

I have a weird concern. I was first taught to knit by my mother. However, it was only when I spent time in Switzerland as an exchange student that my knitting skills were greatly improved. It was there that I learned to pull the yarn from the center of a ball of yarn. I believe the reason was the yarn in the center of the ball would stay clean just before being knitted as compared to the yarn from the outside of the ball of yarn.

Why I’m writing about this is because I’ve developed a pet peave about the sock yarn “Meilenweit Meeting” that I have been using. It is nearly impossible to pull the yarn from the center. It is always catching and doesn’t pull out smoothly. As you can see from my picture I end up with large clumps of yarn from the center. I guess this yarn wasn’t designed to be pulled from the center.

I’ll mention a funny problem which occurred when my mother used this printed yarn to make her socks. She used one big ball of yarn and pulled her yarn for her first sock from the center. For the second sock she pulled it from the outside. As you can imagine she had a hard time to match the sock pattern. The second sock's pattern appeared up side down.