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The Museum of Hoaxes is dedicated to promoting knowledge about hoaxes. (Click here for opening hours, etc.) On our blog we post about dubious- sounding claims, and whatever else strikes our fancy. The site is also home to the Hoaxipedia (the museum's online encyclopedia of hoaxes), the Hoax Forum, and the Top 100 April Fools' Day Hoaxes.
The museum was created in 1997 by Alex Boese. He's assisted by a staff of deputy curators and docents. Alex is the author of three books, most recently Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments (which has nothing to do with hoaxes). Check out the list of the Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time for a preview.
The Museum of Hoaxes is dedicated to promoting knowledge about hoaxes. (Click here for opening hours, etc.) On our blog we post about dubious- sounding claims, and whatever else strikes our fancy. The site is also home to the Hoaxipedia (the museum's online encyclopedia of hoaxes), the Hoax Forum, and the Top 100 April Fools' Day Hoaxes.
The museum was created in 1997 by Alex Boese. He's assisted by a staff of deputy curators and docents. Alex is the author of three books, most recently Elephants on Acid: And Other Bizarre Experiments (which has nothing to do with hoaxes). Check out the list of the Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time for a preview.Prankplace.com
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Wrinkled Egg
Brian Edwards has sent in these photos of a wrinkled egg. I've never heard of an egg getting wrinkled, but the pictures don't look photoshopped. The egg, however, does look a bit like a potato. Soon I'll have to start a new category for odd eggs, what with my previous posts about a spoon-shaped egg, and a tall-tail egg. |
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If I recall correctly you can do this to an egg by soaking it in vinegar for about 24 hours.
Posted by NotBob13 on Tue Aug 30, 2005 at 09:31 PMOr just find a reptile egg. They're already soft.
Posted by Accipiter in the Northern Hemisphere, unless They have lied. on Tue Aug 30, 2005 at 09:41 PMDoesn´t it look like an egg made of wood?
Posted by Arturo in Mexico City on Tue Aug 30, 2005 at 09:56 PMSilly Putty anyone?
Posted by Chris B on Tue Aug 30, 2005 at 09:56 PMI'll try that vinegar trick tomorrow and see if it works.
Posted by Alex in San Diego on Tue Aug 30, 2005 at 10:11 PMSoaking an egg in vinegar is going to produce one smelly egg.
Posted by Zoe on Tue Aug 30, 2005 at 10:22 PMI did the vinegar thing once for a school science experiment. It softens the egg enough you can bounce it on a table(not too high). It didnt make it go wrinkly, but I'm sure there would be a process that would do it (it soften it with vinegar then dehydrate it)
Posted by Bruce on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 04:19 AMeggs (Chicken's specifically here) come in all sorts of strange shapes.
The odd ones get sorted out so they don't appear in supermarkets etc.
Odd shape eggs aren't uncommon, so could be real but it's a bit 'so what?'
Posted by Peter on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 05:11 AMThe odd ones get sorted out so they don't appear in supermarkets etc.
Odd shape eggs aren't uncommon, so could be real but it's a bit 'so what?'
That´s the problem with city folks. Nothing strange about an egg like that. If I remember correctly it´s about calcium shortage in the chicken.
Anyway, odd shaped eggs are pretty common. However they´ll be taken out before they are shipped to people who can only stand perfect eggs. The funny ones go to egg using foodcompanies for powdered egg etc.
Posted by Beasjt in Earth on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 06:21 AMAnyway, odd shaped eggs are pretty common. However they´ll be taken out before they are shipped to people who can only stand perfect eggs. The funny ones go to egg using foodcompanies for powdered egg etc.
We used to raise chickens, and did see unusual eggs like this occasionally. I'd vote for real.
Posted by Winona in USA on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 06:46 AMI bet they make the chickens eyes water...
Posted by Blondin on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 07:48 AMLooks like a walnut to me.
Posted by Buffalo on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 07:59 AMLooks more like a Rocky Mountain Oyster.
Posted by Jorge on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 08:23 AMBig deal. My Grandpa's got two of 'em. Swingin'.
Posted by booch on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 08:26 AMIt hasn't got the face of Jesus on it. That's pretty unique isn't it. 
Posted by Peter in London on Wed Aug 31, 2005 at 08:44 AMSoaking in Vinegar for shell softening, AND re-hardened in a solution of Baking Soda and Water. The old trick of putting an egg into a narrow-neck glass bottle. It can also be "modeled" by hand before re-hardening. I did it many years ago and it is, either way, a good show-and-tell item.
Posted by The Legend on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 07:19 AMI have chickens, and we get all kinds of strange eggs occasionally. Especially young birds tend to lay odd eggs at first: very small eggs, eggs with soft rubbery shells, even eggs without shells. So I doubt it's a fake.
Posted by PlantPerson on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 10:33 AMHaving grown up on a chicken farm, wrinkled eggs are the result of the egg hardening before it has a chance to form it's normally smooth shell.
I've seen eggs without shells, shells without anything in them and all sorts of egg-oddities.
Egg shells don't start off hard inside the chicken, just waiting for an egg yolk to form. It's all part of the cycle.
Posted by Sam in Toronto on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 11:49 AMI've seen eggs without shells, shells without anything in them and all sorts of egg-oddities.
Egg shells don't start off hard inside the chicken, just waiting for an egg yolk to form. It's all part of the cycle.
Didn't we go over all this with the spoon-shaped egg?
Eggs come out of the chicken in all sorts of odd-shaped (or odd-colored) forms, but the uglier and/or stranger ones are sorted out and never sent to the grocery store. Instead, they're sold to bakers, producers of processed foods, pet food companies, and so on. Which is to say, you've eaten lots of eggs that look like these (unless you're a vegan or allergic to eggs), but you ate them mixed into foods where you never saw the appearance of the orginal egg.
Posted by Big Gary, down on the farm in Dallas, Texas on Thu Sep 01, 2005 at 02:52 PMEggs come out of the chicken in all sorts of odd-shaped (or odd-colored) forms, but the uglier and/or stranger ones are sorted out and never sent to the grocery store. Instead, they're sold to bakers, producers of processed foods, pet food companies, and so on. Which is to say, you've eaten lots of eggs that look like these (unless you're a vegan or allergic to eggs), but you ate them mixed into foods where you never saw the appearance of the orginal egg.
Oops, I meant, "the original egg."
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