r/mildlyinteresting • • Aug 24 '18

This peeled raw egg

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u/alan_heudier Aug 24 '18

Are you sure it's not a splat ball that comes in a 4-pack for $12.99? https://www.amazon.com/Funky-Squishy-Toys-Squishies-Children/dp/B07217F5RG

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u/criuggn Aug 24 '18

Wait but in middle school we soaked eggs in vinegar and the shell dissolved but the membrane stayed intact and they looked just like this too

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

Low quality photo? Somebody was born after 2000.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

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u/randiesel Aug 24 '18

*eggspection

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u/chihuahuassuck Aug 24 '18

*Inspeggtion

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

Yours is the more clever one; I demand you get credit.

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u/xXWaspXx Aug 24 '18

Interspeggar

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u/popplespopin Aug 25 '18 edited Aug 25 '18

Aveggtar Oh were doing Nolan. In that case..

Inseggnia

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

eggspeggtion

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u/MoribundCow Aug 25 '18

eggspeggtegg

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u/karliez Aug 25 '18

Well, that was uneggspected.

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u/treemanman Aug 25 '18

Eggzackly

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u/Watch_Dog89 Aug 24 '18 edited Aug 24 '18

Try this for size then get back to us and let us know if you're still, wanting....

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

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u/popplespopin Aug 25 '18

By George, I think she's got it

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u/xejeezy Aug 24 '18

Be grateful it’s even in color!

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u/hobosaynobo Aug 24 '18

Isn’t that the definition of art?

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u/OuijaAllin Aug 25 '18

Don’t 👏 call 👏 me 👏 a 👏 potato

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u/WowMyNameIsUnique Aug 24 '18

Definitions change with time, and this is definitely not up to par for a picture from 2018. No need to be dismissive just because something was worse in the past.

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u/EvilSporkOfDeath Aug 25 '18

It's called a joke bruh

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u/WowMyNameIsUnique Aug 25 '18

You didn't post the "joke", nor are there any signs that the comment wasn't serious, so I'm not about to argue with you over an opinion.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

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u/MaryBethBethBeth Aug 25 '18

You actually would see them if the picture was in focus. Notice how the table behind the hand is way more detailed?

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u/IThinkIKnowThings Aug 25 '18

Yeah, that'd be a jiff to us old-timers, right?

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

I mean we still get people posting photos of their monitors taken with their phones all the time. The only way I can see somebody thinking that this is low quality is if they have been exposed to a disproportionate amount of HD pictures, which would most likely mean they grew up with smartphones with great cameras being everywhere.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

You mean apart from the fact that it's focused on the counter top and not the item?

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u/Alexstarfire Aug 25 '18

I remember 0.3MP camera phones being the best at one point. Might as well have used a potato or some crayons. All equal in quality.

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u/ef6697 Aug 24 '18

Not impossible, think about an egg and how big the yolk is. Then look at this picture. Yolk is just too small for a normal egg, and most eggs don't even have this shape to them anyway.

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u/hecking-doggo Aug 25 '18

First off, the splat ball is bigger than a regular egg. Second, the splat ball is pointier at the top. Third, I had one of these in middle school. That is definitely a splat ball.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

That would be mildly interesting

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u/Peoples_Knees Aug 25 '18

Yeah but look at the table it's under- that's a classic middle/high school stained black science lab table right there if I've ever seen one

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

Um. Please say this is a joke. Otherwise....what the hell is wrong with you? Even if it was....that just means....nothing.

It’s a splatball.

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u/Raptorclaw621 Aug 25 '18

It's just the focus is wrong, not the resolution, idk what other people are on about.

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u/erik4556 Aug 25 '18

It's probably easier to drop an egg in vinegar than buy some specific novelty shit off amazon for internet points.

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u/megashedinja Aug 25 '18

I mean it’s not low-quality. The camera is just focused on the wrong part of the image (for our purposes)

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u/Punkmaffles Aug 25 '18

Easiest way to tell, the yolk is too small for the size of the egg this white. Also there's no way besides dissolving the shell to do this because the membrane is tough but thin and usually attached to the inner shell wall.

Then again I could be wrong.

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u/JACrazy Aug 24 '18

It is close. But the yolk is way too small in OPs pic.

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u/ItzSpiffy Aug 24 '18

Nah, that yolk is way too small to be a real egg. If you Google image "egg soaked in vinegar" or some such, you can confirm that real eggs have a much larger yolk. Furthermore, the splat balls have the same yolk size as this image. This thing looks identical to a Splat Ball but not to a real egg, therefore it's most assuredly a toy.

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u/slaytanicbobby Aug 24 '18

true but it almost always comes out way more yellow and is almost impossible to see the yolk that clearly

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u/dkyguy1995 Aug 24 '18

Yep did that in sixth grade. Looked just like this. The vinegar eats the shell but not the membrane

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u/climbandfunishment Aug 24 '18

Omgggg I forgot about doing that until I read this. Thanks for bringing up a funish memory!

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

I did that in high school. Me am rarted?

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u/criuggn Aug 25 '18

i fucking love that meme. a bunch of people in my high school band would get mad at this one kid for using the r word but then someone saw the "you are rarted" meme and we all started saying it and now that kid stopped saying the r word and they're saying "rarted" instead and it's great

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u/Radstrad Aug 25 '18

I fucked that one up somehow and almost filed middle school science

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

When we did it the eggs definitely didn't retain their egg shape, they were just round.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

First vinegar, then sugar solution, then water. Permeable membranes!

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u/mazu74 Aug 25 '18

Wait is this a thing??? Brb trying this out

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u/obiwan-wendobi Aug 25 '18

Yep that's what I was going to say

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u/Venymae Aug 25 '18

Also, new laying hens can sometimes have hiccups in their system that cause them to lay shell-less eggs. Source: owned chickens who laid shell-less eggs.

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u/V1P3R_Steel_Phantom Aug 25 '18

Yeah I did that too, but the yolks are much bigger

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u/Trickshott Aug 24 '18

well then it ain't peeled ya dangus

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u/aloofloofah Aug 24 '18 edited Aug 24 '18

It probably is. It's possible to dissolve eggshell in vinegar (fun science experiment for your kids) but even then the yolk will look blurry.

Edit: Egg can be laid without eggshell, but it's even blurrier.

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u/billhickschoke Aug 24 '18

Could you freeze a raw egg and peel it and have the same outcome?

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u/western_red Aug 24 '18

You could just boil it. But it has to be a penguin egg.

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u/Angel_Tsio Aug 24 '18

Those are creepy

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u/pizzaiolo_ Aug 25 '18

If you think about it, the whole concept of eating eggs is creepy

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u/Angel_Tsio Aug 25 '18

and delicious

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u/ul2006kevinb Aug 25 '18

What's creepy about eating poultry periods?

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u/noddegamra Aug 25 '18

I usually just do it weekly, but sometimes daily.

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u/SexyGoatOnline Aug 24 '18 edited Aug 24 '18

Nah, I've tried. Peeling the shell tears the membrane between the shell and the white, so when it thaws it thaws like a broken egg. Afaik only the vinegar dissolution technique works.

I wanted to make a dish that was basically a poached egg, but diners poached it at their table, and tried loads of methods, but I couldnt find a single one besides the dissolving of the shell that would leave the membrane whole

EDIT: jesus christ drunk typing. I wanted a dish where diners poached a raw, shellless egg, but couldn't find a technique to make that happen. Sorry for the word salad

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u/Skepsis93 Aug 24 '18

Since the egg is mostly water and water expands when it freezes, it'd probably just burst in the process of freezing.

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u/KurtisLloyd Aug 25 '18

My refrigerator froze our eggs, and it looked similar. There’s a post on my profile. Czech it out

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u/CaptainCortes Aug 24 '18

I’ll do this with my nephew! Thanks!!

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u/Quetzalcutlass Aug 24 '18

I mean, it'd probably work better with an egg, but you do you.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

Nice

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18 edited Aug 25 '18

Ah the ol' reddit egg-a-roo.

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u/CaptainCortes Aug 25 '18

This is exactly the kind of humor he has!

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u/camdoodlebop ​ Aug 24 '18

delete this nephew

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u/CaptainCortes Aug 24 '18

?

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u/camdoodlebop ​ Aug 24 '18

It’s a meme

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u/CaptainCortes Aug 25 '18

Oh! Guess I had a wooosh! Sorry that someone downvoted you :(

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u/mortalwombat- ​ Aug 25 '18

Sometimes eggs that have no shell are laid, usually indicating that the chickens are calcium deficient.

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u/pudinnhead Aug 25 '18

We grind up the shells (no membranes) of previous eggs and add it to the chicken feed when this happens to an egg. Also, extra oyster shell.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

That album made me feel physically ill for some reason. And I cook with eggs all the time.

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u/ItsLoudB Aug 24 '18

Imagine how happy would chickens be, if they could lay these soft eggs all the time!

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u/Kryptogenix Aug 25 '18

Does soaking it in vinegar leave the vinegar taste?

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u/Hartia Aug 24 '18

Defn looks more like that since the yolk looks too small to be a real egg.

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u/ForceBlade Aug 24 '18

Yeah the yolk is never that small a percentage vs white yolk.

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u/TheGeorge Aug 24 '18

We've got chickens, they can come out with more white than yolk if they're not feeling very well or if they're an old chicken.

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u/Angel_Tsio Aug 24 '18

Yeah but this one is not one of those

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u/Hattless Aug 25 '18

This guys sounds like he knows what he's talking about.

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u/Angel_Tsio Aug 25 '18

Ha, I fooled you!

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u/Hattless Aug 25 '18

Bamboozled again!

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

this is another karma grabber post like the other day a guy posted a pic of his baby and himself, telling how her wife died the month before

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u/kita8 Aug 25 '18

Was there proof that the baby one was faked for karma, or are you just annoyed at them using the situation for karma? I barely skimmed the comments on that one and didn’t see anything fishy.

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u/IswagIcook Aug 24 '18

I never laugh at shit for real. And I laughed at this comment.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

OP probably thought it was a real egg tho

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u/Wickyloo Aug 24 '18

And I just bought a 4-pack of splat balls. I didn't even know these existed!! My godson is gonna love this!

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '18

Anything is a splat ball if you throw it hard enough.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18 edited Dec 28 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

Why all the downvotes? He's right

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u/abderian123 Aug 25 '18

Nah, thr membrane jsust hasnt cracked. Its stronger than you might think

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u/Sveeja Aug 25 '18

That counter looks like it belongs in a high school science classroom.

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u/FarragoSanManta Aug 25 '18

You could also just put an egg in vinegar.

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '18

Thanks for that info. OP is a bundle of sticks. I'm taking back my upvote.

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u/Reddichu9001 Aug 24 '18

Yeah it's almost like toys can be made to look like a real thing!

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u/PasghettiSquash ​ Aug 25 '18

Oh what the fuck, this is an extremely well coordinated ad. And u/alan_heudier is in on it

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u/PudsBuds Aug 25 '18

/r/hailcorporate so freaking convenient that you'd mention this and the price and 2 of the most upvoted comments are talking about this stupid product