WTF happened when I was boiling eggs today? They came from either Kroger or Publix. First I noticed a stringy thing in the water, then I noticed more and more then there were giant wads of the stuff. Nobody seems to know what it is. Can anyone here help?
Either it was an early stage baby chicken that got boiled (unlikely with the stringy bits) or the bird that laid this egg has a really bad case of roundworm or Cecil worms.
Basically the bird was either sick and has a poor immune system, or it was stressed. It can also come from a dirty coop.
The birds digestive, urinary and reproductive system are all connected at a single opening called the cloaca. While it's rare for this to happen, the worms could have travelled through the bird into its reproductive system and got caught up in the egg.
Obviously don't eat it and throw it away. Maybe let the supplier know or at least where you bought it so they can raise it higher. Guessing this wasn't in the UK because if it was there are websites you can use to trace your egg from where it was laid.
Source: worked on chicken farms for 5 years
Thank you so much. And no, I am not in the UK. An extended family member grew up in a chicken farm and he had never seen anything like it. But, if the farm he was raised on had higher standards, he wouldn’t have seen this. I really appreciate your help.
Almost positive it was a rotten egg and it cracked under pressure when boiled and made a rotten egg noodle essentially, I really don’t think that was any sort of worm in your egg.
This is the correct answer. I have boiled a rotten egg begore and got something similar, though not so noodley.
I think the egg had a lot of pressure built up so it helped extrude the rot faster.
This lines up with the theory.
When bacteria consumes and rots the inside of an egg, they produce a lot of gasses as a byproduct of this process.
Off the top of my head the gasses include CO2, methane and notably hydrogen sulfide which gives rotten eggs their characteristic odor.
But, more importantly, these gasses produce a lot of pressure. They are constantly building up inside of this egg with nowhere to go.
Heating increases the pressure of gasses. So, boiling would have increased the pressure enough to crack the shell and release the contents. Which, being rotten, would be unrecognizable.
BUT the one problem with this theory is the lack of any smell. At least, they didn't mention a smell. And rotten eggs have a bad enough smell, I'm sure OP would have mentioned.
Besides that, everything else checks out. And that could be as simple as OP just didn't bother mentioning the smell. Who knows.
Oh stop being normal and using your head for something other than a hat rack
I was thinking what worm looks like that?
Makes sense it’s rotten egg given our food regulation in the U.S currently.
Yeah, the egg on the right side is leaking a mixture of rotten yolk.
The US did away with a lot of regulation (thanks RFK) so safety of eggs has decreased greatly. We will probably see a lot more of these types of things and more salmonella. This is most certainly parasites in the eggs. I'd throw out your batch. If you still have the container they were in, contact the company and let them know.
For all the flaws we have with our government etc, the UK probably has one of the highest food safety standards in the world.
When I was working on the farms we would routinely have animal welfare companies like RSPCA (Royal society for the prevention of cruelty to animals) who usually deal with bad pet owners and rescuing/rehabilitating wildlife, but also deal with farms making sure the animals are healthy and meet standards. We also have farming associations like one called Red Tractor who focus on the cleanliness of farms with them being food environments.
After the whole mad cow debacle we had to fix up a bit
Still can't donate blood in EU if you were in UK during that time.
They honestly ask "got any disease? Are you a gay man? Did you have unprotected sex with a new partner recently? Did you visit UK in these years?"
I've seen a person go from healthy to dead in a couple of weeks in the most horrific way imaginable due to FFI, a pryon disease related to Mad cow/CJD.
So I understand why that is the case, prion diseases are no joke and there are no cures or treatments for it, really scary stuff.
Fatal Familial Insomnia has never killed anyone in two weeks. It’s a dreadful, protracted disease taking months, usually up to two years to kill. Unfortunately.
Not in two weeks no but 2-3 months ish. Noone had a clue he had FFI until after his autopsy. From the time that we noticed that something was wrong it was a matter of a few weeks until he passed away.
But yes the double folded proteins had been tearing holes in his brain for some time before symptoms started to appear.
It's been 8 years or so, but last time I sold plasma the same restriction was in place, USA.
And yet, the US was selling blood infected with HIV and hepatitis to the UK throughout the 90s https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QiMLS8dW25w
Bayer literally gave children AIDs
donated plasma for money like 2 months ago, yep, still asked that
My parents can’t donate in Canada or US either since they were living in the UK during those years.
It was removed as a disqualifier recently in the US.
I don't know if it has changed recently, but blood donated in the U.S. is often sold to other countries, including the UK.
Interesting! Didn’t know that. They’re no longer in the US now, I just remembered that being a thing.
Still can't donate blood in Canada if you were in one of several countries during a 40 year period that imported British beef at the time. In my case, because I was born in Saudi Arabia and lived there in my baby years.
Genuine question as I am not in the UK.
Did a lot of this develop from the rash of Mad Cow back in the 90s?
Yeh, pretty much
Some of it. But we've always been quite fussy about our food standards, as well as taking on board a lot of the even stricter EU standards.
Prior to that we had a massive salmonella outbreak too, which probably added to precautions.
We had a prime minister called Thatcher who got rid of loads of regulations she claimed was holding industry back.
Then we had outbreaks of mad cow, salmonella and other things.
We quickly put the regulations back
I recently visited Canada for the fiest time and I was amazed at the difference in food quality they had just 4 hours from where I live. Everything tastes better somehow, less processed and chemically. Reading the ingredients on the back blew me away.
Canadian here. Can you give me an example of something that tasted better? What was so shocking about the ingredients? I'm not doubting what you say, I'm just curious to know more.
As a Canadian who visited the United States the cheese and meat was plentiful but didn’t taste good
My girlfriend is Canadian and when I visit, the cheese in my area of the US was noticeably better but did not notice any major difference in meat. I'd guess it's mostly just what you're used to, where you go, what you get, etc etc
I just recently moved from Texas to Canada. I was shocked by how much better the produce tasted. It’s especially shocking as I thought the produce in Texas actually “looked” better but definitely didn’t taste better.
Which specific deregulation are you talking about regarding egg safety? I've searched all over and can't find anything.
Yeah I was curious about this too so I did some fact checking and wasn't finding really anything pertaining to that making me wonder if it was just blame game instead of actual factual so I'm curious too
He commented this later down. The dude is just making blanket attacks
It wouldn't be the domain of RFK anyway, it would be Brooke Rollins - who granted is herself a whole rabbit hole of conservative think tank and Project 2025 connections, but that's tangential.
This is what I immediately found from July, though I don't know what the actual steps taken have been since then as the whole announcement is just a pit of conservative propaganda wording, but given how idiotically they handled the Screwworm issue I wouldn't expect good things.
Why would it be under Brooke Rollins?
The USDA is in charge of egg products. FDA is in charge of eggs in the shell. And eggs in the shell are much more often being imported these days, from places like Turkey and Lithuania.
Food import inspections are down considerably in the second Trump administration. That's well documented.
Shell egg import inspections are the responsibility of the FDA not the USDA's FSIS.
The FDA falls under the purview of HHS, which is overseen by RFK, Jr.
RFK Jr. is the secretary of Health and Human Services. What HHS policy affects eggs?
Rfk hasn’t had any impact yet… policies would just be beginning to go into effect. but to say this or something like this is due to his appointment at this point is just fishing for upvotes and fear mongering… let’s please be better than that. the man is certifiably insane but this likely would have happened regardless.
You just made Balut lmao
Throw it away then eat it!
🤮
Yea. I had a traumatic experience accidentally eating a rotten egg sandwich. I had a cold and couldn't smell it, but could sure taste it when I bit in... I was finally over it and could eat eggs again but now idk
Honestly this is rare to come across. Like OP said they noticed some stringy bits when boiling, if that's the case remove and check. If it's bad then get rid of the rest.
Yea, I'm probably mostly exaggerating but this pic sure gave me the heebie jeebies
Oh yeh it's gross, no doubt! 😂
Dang, that's pretty sad the US doesn't have the same egg-tracking system.
This guys eggs
I found an article form a similar looking thing here where they said it was actually bacteria caused. The coloration is closer to yours than any worm infections I have seen
https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/30388933
I'm very upset by the photo of it on a fork like it's some kind of pasta. They really didn't need to do that.
That was exactly my first thought as well 🤢
neat
Solved
great find, but also, how many worm infections have you seen??
Looks like worms.
If you still have the raw ones, you should crack them into a container and post a photo for more internet points.
Cuz damn I'm curious.
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Don’t join r/weirdeggs then. Idk why I’m still subbed but it’s horrifying at times!
Does not look like worms any chicken would have. It's likely an egg that went bad and this is the result from the bacteria in the egg. This is a sign of the lax food safety protocols this regime is putting in place.
Not to go off on a political rant, but in this year alone they have undone DECADES of food and drug safety progress. It will likely take many more decades to get back to the point we were at in 2024.
I have boiled eggs with cracked shells (unfortunately) and I have never seen anything like what you are showing! Since you purchased those from a local grocery store, you may want to make them aware. There’s something definitely wrong with your egg source.
Please post this to r/weirdeggs. They’ve seen it all over there and will know what this is
I fucking love Reddit sometimes lmfao
Something bad, something very very bad.
Well. Well. If it isn’t the smoker.
Throw ALL of those eggs away!
I threw away all the eggs and probably going to throw out the pot I boiled them in.
Might want to get rid of the stove and consider the home as well, but I'd stop after those because you don't want to over do it
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Better nuke it from orbit, just to be safe
I got a week ban for saying that in a thread one time, the ban message said it was hate speech.
They mostly come out at night. Mostly
Did they think you were being Xenomorphobic?
The context was a little alien to them
It’s the only way to be sure.
Exterminatus it is then
No, he needs to salt the earth. Then he can rest.
Nuke it from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Take them back to the store. They will reimburse you and raise it up with the supplier. They can tell what batch it came from.
Work for a grocery store, and trust me 100% they won't raise it with the supplier if it's just 1 customer returning the eggs. Need to be multiple instances which will result in a removal of the product from the shelves.
He need to definitely contact the corporate number and make a report about the eggs there.
I don't have anything meaningful to add, but I just wanted to say I definitely misread "batch" and it caught me off guard, lol.
Return the box to the store, tell them what happened (show photos), and just clean your pot in the dishwasher if you can. It can probably sanitize the pot.
Will they really do anything? I would figure the retailer will just say "oh here's your $3.50" and chuck them. Never to be thought of again.
There's a process for vendors to report these kinds of issues. It's probably better to contact the manufacturer(they have a higher stake in doing damage control), but unfortunately in the case of things like eggs there usually isn't an easy way to know where they came from in order to do that. The only other thing OP could do is report it directly to the FDA themselves, but I don't know the process for such complaints.
Did they spend any amount of time in the fridge? That's gotta go too.
Hell, I just threw all my eggs away too!
That’s a little extreme
You should probably throw away the chicken.
At least break them open and see what they look like before trashing them, or break it in the trash can and look at the yolk, for science.
This; there are several things wrong with these eggs and you just need to get a new dozen
Thanks for the advice, I'm sure everyone else though on not only keeping them, but eating them as a delicacy
Obviously, you should stop sacrifices to Cthulhu.
Or maybe make more of them. Whatever gets this to stop.
Or maybe curl up and sleep on his back like The Coon.
I disagree
can you them??
(edit: im french)
Were you a crew member on the Nostromo when you picked up those eggs?
Nothing could go wrong if I just put my face right over this weird alien egg sac
If I saw this in the pot, I'd have to go sit outside and think about some things. Put my reality back together, so to speak.
That's fowl
You sonofabitch.
Okay, I did not have horsehair worms infecting chicken eggs on my 2025 bingo card.
I would candle every single other egg in that lot and toss anything that is questionable.
Candle?
Pop a light source on the other side of the egg (preferably in an otherwise-dim room) and look through - the egg lets some light through, so you can determine some of the state of the contents by how it looks that way.
You can definitely see shit like this.
Man if this happened I'd just toss the whole batch. Fuck that.
Interesting! TIL
/r/weirdeggs
I thought that’s where I was! Hahaha! I’ve seen some wild things there, but this may take the cake!!…no pun. Kinda.
And I thought that there was zero chance this was a thing….
Well, I’ll be.
I don’t know , but throw the rest away
I’d throw that particular one away too
Goddamnit I hid /r/WeirdEggs because of the constant jump scares but now here we are again 😭😭
Another terrible day to have eyes.
Some actual WTF. Right before my Thanksgiving dinner too!
Welp, I’m done with eggs for the year. Bless. I hope you heal from this trauma. I will not.
How bad did it smell?
oh God that's gnarly, it looks like the chick started to form but was eaten by a parasite Jesus Christ
You need to send these photos to the store, manufacturer, and the FDA or similar organization. Be sure to send the date code from the package.
/r/EatItYouFuckinCoward and report back!
Nope. I can barely look at the picture! No way. Yes I am a coward!
think about the insurance though
passes away
Just searched this image in Google and found it goes back over 10 years in posts. OP is either a scammer or a karma whore loser.
Did you mutter "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble"? Did you add wing of bat or tail of newt or something along those lines?
Did you recently take a trip to Antarctica?
Gross. Not sure but toss them.
I usually eat eggs everyday. I love eggs. I will skip eggs today.
I think it's crazy to think they're worms. Worms don't just grow in eggs or penetrate into them. I've boiled an egg with a slight crack and have the yolk spurt out into boiling water forming a string of boiled yolk and I think that's what this is. I'd be super worried about the color though. Throw that shit out
Definitely not worms. This is a product of chemistry and microbiology. Rotten egg squeezed out through cracks by expanding gasses, cooking in contact with the water. Rotten egg noodles.
Source: note the gray-green color specific to rotten eggs, and if you zoom in you can see that the curries are ribbons with an almost I-beam shape, a shape that no parasitic worms have. Also, scope the gray-green color of the shell in the left. That might be a aracana egg but it’s also likely a rotten egg considering the colorful contents. The second pic with the partially blackened interior and the weird cheesy remnants, yeah that sucker’s gone bad. The other two eggs seem to have large air pockets so I’m betting that they’ve been sitting around for a while before getting partially boiled.
Rotten egg white?
This is my thought. The gasses inside expanded during cooking and forced the rotten slots out through cracks. It just happened to cook into strands as it came out, like noodles. Rotten egg noodles.
Balut!
Nice looks like you boiled ether a partially developed egg that went bad or just a rotton egg.
One was rotten and one had a foetus in it.
I keep scrolling and scrolling and scrolling and nobody has a real non-joke answer
Sort by best, first answer explains it? If you're trying to find the right answer in a 11hours post sorted by new then yeah you're just going to find bots reposting jokes or late ppl posting jokes already made.
r/eatityoucoward...?
The inside looks like a lash egg, but then I don’t think it would have the hard outer shell since it’s not actually an “egg”. I can’t say for the green stringy bits though. I’m thinking it was maybe a rotten egg (got so due to a small crack in the shell). Then through the small crack, the liquid rotten egg seeped through while boiling. I’ve hard boiled eggs that have these stringy bits from the shell cracking during boiling
I can't tell what's wrong? That's how mine normally turns out after boiling.
I found this on the web. Apparently bacteria that changed the properties of the egg. Not worms. https://www.nationthailand.com/in-focus/30388933
You overcooked your balut
The noodley bit is just what happens when you boil an egg with a hole in the shell, but I also think the green egg's contents look spoiled too. So cooked spoiled egg in noodle shapes. Probably some yolk mixed in too, yolk discolors a lot when cooked.
The bright red yolk on the brown egg is most likely from diet. Egg contents change color depending what you feed the chickens. Feed your chickens the right things and you'll get bright red yolks.
You are cursed now.
Terrible day to have the gift of sight 😭
A simple rule: put a raw egg in room temperature water. If it lies on its side, it is fresh. If it stands upright, it is old and close to expiring, so better to avoid it. If it floats, the egg is off.
Cross posted to r/weirdeggs
Never eating eggs again
I have had backyard chickens for 15 years, and I have never seen anything like that. I was really hoping this was a joke. Does is smell as awful as it looks?
Congrats! You're now the proud owner of horrors beyond human comprehension
I blocked that weird egg subreddit for a reason, don't bring your weird eggs out of your designated area!
Curse level shit, throw all that out ASAP and sage your house
Both horrifying and revolting. Wtf indeed
Nothing a few sticks of dynamite can't fix
This is the most disgusting thing I ever saw in my life. Or pretty close.
Omg I would throw up if this came from any of my hens eggs. 🤮 straight up boiled worms
that looks like the appetizer from spongebob
Ah! Finally TRUE Deviled Eggs!
Yeah, don't eat that.
Could not eat eggs for months if that would be in my eggs
I'm gunna throw up
bruh this made me want to never eat eggs again lol
Why’d you boil your balut?
UNSEE!! UNSEEEEEE!!!
that's baby chicken. saad
Bad egg.
New fear unlocked
Eat it pussy
Yeah, you got fertilized eggs, chief. You boiled a baby chick while it was still inside the egg.
Did you accidentally get balut haha
You boiled a baby eldritch horror.
glanced at the photo and came straight to the comments for the answer. i have a really strong urge to look at the photo again but i’m on a diet that’s like 40% eggs and i can’t do that to myself without suffering the consequences in a major way for several months. high quality horrible content right there
Those eggs were laid by RFK
Rotten with cracks in the shell?
I can smell that through the screen
I'd fucking call Ghostbusters if I saw my eggs doing this
I hate this sooooooo much
u got's urself a lil boiled fetus my G
You should went calmly outside, and burn down the house, mate 🔥
Hoolllllllllyyt shhhhh. This post gonna blow up.
Leave ..run.
you just ruined eggs for me 🤮
Welp I'm done eating forever
What a day to have eyes lol
Why are all the shells different colors?
They're alright. Just add some salt
This is a proper WTF post, as I said "eeeeewah, wtf?!" out loud before realizing the sub.
Who shit my pants?!
Someone may have already mentioned this, but contact the store where you bought the eggs. Other customers may have the same issues and the store may need to remove the eggs.
Have you ever seen the Buffy episode s02e12 "Bad Eggs"?
I remember my mother teaching me to make scrambled eggs back in the early 80's. She'd always have me crack the egg into a separate bowl before mixing with the others, as not to wreck them all by having a bad egg. I guess it was more of a problem in the old days. I don't do that anymore as I have never really seen a bad egg in decades!!
OP, I think you may have cooked one of the Aliens
Isn't there a traceability code imprinted on the shell? That green egg is so anomalous, not that the white one is better.
At which point in the boiling process did they go from "breakfast" to "experiment"
So I will for real , never eat an egg again.
STOLEN POST.
From 10 years ago even. Not many grocery stores sell a rainbow assortment of eggs.
Look at how many people upvoted it. I fucking hate stupid people.
Me too. And bots that post old crap.
Thanks i hadn't seen any horrors beyond my comprehension today