Pure Eggcellence

Omelette you finish, but this is the most cracking list of all time.

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Tongzi Dan: Boy Eggs

Urine-soaked Chinese eggs.

serflac

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Owakudani Black Eggs

Legend holds eating just one of these black eggs can add seven years to one's life.

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Egg Throwing World Championships

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Egg Throwing World Championships

England's annual event features relays, trebuchets, and Russian egg roulette.

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Adjaruli Khachapuri

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Adjaruli Khachapuri

Economists use this cheesy bread as a metric for cost of living between Georgian cities.

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rachelrummel

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Vietnamese Egg Coffee

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Vietnamese Egg Coffee

A decadent blend of coffee, whipped egg, and butter have made this wartime invention a modern-day favorite.

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Lampreia de Ovos

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Lampreia de Ovos

With this egg-based Christmas dessert, Portuguese pastelarias celebrate a bloodsucking fish.

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Whitebait Fritters

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Whitebait Fritters

It's fishy how close to an omelette this is.

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Hangtown Fry

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Hangtown Fry

This bacon-and-oyster omelet was a status symbol during the California Gold Rush.

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Spaghetti Omelette Sandwich

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Spaghetti Omelette Sandwich

It's three meals in one!

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Cara Giaimo

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Escamoles

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Escamoles

The eggs of "the farty ant" have earned a reputation as the caviar of the desert.

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Egg Waffles

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Egg Waffles

These portable pancake sheets have a crispy, hollow side and a sweet, doughy side.

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Hmong Stuffed Chicken Wings

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Hmong Stuffed Chicken Wings

Next-level egg rolls are wrapped in an entire chicken wing.

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Pique a lo Macho

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Pique a lo Macho

Can you finish Bolivia's enormous starch-and-protein explosion?

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Ramos Gin Fizz

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Ramos Gin Fizz

Turning this cocktail into a fluffy cloud is easy—just hire someone to shake it for 12 minutes straight.

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rachelrummel

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Balut

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Balut

In the Philippines, fertilized duck eggs are savory snacks.

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rachelrummel

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The Eggs of Merry Bay

These enlarged egg sculptures represent the native birds of eastern Iceland.

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World's Largest Czech Egg

A 20-foot-tall egg painted in a traditional Czech patterns by the Czech community in Wilson, Kansas.

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Aptos, California

Egg Vending Machine at Glaum Ranch

At this California chicken ranch, four bucks will get you 18 eggs and a chorus of dancing animatronic poultry.

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Winlock, Washington

Winlock Egg

The world's largest egg has been cracked a number of times over the years but has been repeatedly replaced.

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Els Enfarinats

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Els Enfarinats

In Ibi, “the Floured Ones” use food, face paint, and firecrackers to stage a commemorative coup.

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rachelrummel

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Guatemalan Fiambre

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Guatemalan Fiambre

This 50-ingredient salad is for both the living and the dead.

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rachelrummel

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Century Eggs

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Century Eggs

They're dark, gelatinous, and great on chopped tofu.

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rachelrummel

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Mignon Chocolate Egg

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Mignon Chocolate Egg

Finns celebrate Easter with millions of real eggshells filled with almond-hazelnut nougat.

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rachelrummel

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Eierschalen-sollbruchstellen-verursacher

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Eierschalen-sollbruchstellen-verursacher

“And eggs are open in the twinkling of an eye.”

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rachelrummel

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Hilversum, Netherlands

World's Largest Mosaic Egg

Made of 41,900 pieces of mosaic, it took two years to piece together this giant egg.

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Omurice

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Omurice

Japanese cooks riff on American diner food with this rice-and-ketchup omelet.

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Egg Hopper

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Egg Hopper

Sri Lanka's crispy, bowl-shaped pancake comes with an egg at the bottom.

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Yemas de San Leandro

Hidden behind a wall, Spanish nuns distribute their signature sweets on a revolving tray.

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Labskaus

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Labskaus

A hangover cure that spans classes and centuries.

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Los Angeles, California

Riverside Roundabout

An L.A. traffic island where the faces of locals have been carved into massive granite eggs.

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Stockholm, Sweden

Solar Egg

A golden egg-shaped sauna in the Arctic tundra.

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Gallina Campesina

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Gallina Campesina

In Ubaté, Colombia, hens get cooked with their unlaid eggs inside.

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Prairie Oyster Cocktail

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Prairie Oyster Cocktail

The hangover cure gets its oyster-like texture from a raw egg.

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Mentone, Indiana

Mentone Egg

A giant concrete egg marks this Indiana town as the "Egg Basket of the Midwest."

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Colombian Hot Dogs

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Colombian Hot Dogs

You might not even see the meat beneath this pile of potato chips, sauce, and quail eggs.

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Sam OBrien

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Camarillo, California

Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology

Over one million bird-related artifacts await.

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London, England

Clown Egg Register

An archive of ceramic eggs painted to record clowns' personal makeup designs.

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La Merengada

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La Merengada

This Spanish city gears up for Lent with a massive meringue fight.

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Scrambled Brains ’n’ Eggs

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Scrambled Brains ’n’ Eggs

This savory Southern staple is disappearing.

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Giant Omelette Festival

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Giant Omelette Festival

A brotherhood is behind this 15,000-egg tradition.

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Louisiana Egg Knocking

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Louisiana Egg Knocking

In small towns across the state, an Easter tradition becomes a competitive sport.

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Gautham Krishnaraj

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Trứng Vịt Lộn

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Trứng Vịt Lộn

In Vietnam, there are multiple ways to enjoy fertilized duck eggs.

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Ovos Moles de Aveiro

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Ovos Moles de Aveiro

These seashell-shaped, yolk-filled candies are a symbol of Portugal's canal-lined city.

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rachelrummel

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Salzburger Nockerl

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Salzburger Nockerl

This dessert pays tribute to the snow-covered mountains surrounding Salzburg.

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Trashing

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Trashing

For some students at the University of Oxford, the end of the year means getting covered with eggs, shaving cream, and champagne.

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Canned Dashimaki

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Canned Dashimaki

These sweet and savory Japanese rolled eggs are sold in 6-packs.

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Abbey Perreault

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Lyndhurst, Ohio

Eggshelland

Annual Easter display made up of thousands of hand-painted eggs.

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Muttamala and Kinnathappam

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Muttamala and Kinnathappam

This two-ingredient Malabari dessert turns separated eggs into a striking delicacy.

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