Shocked housewife's bargain eggs no yolk
They tasted like rubber bands with a congealed mass inside, says woman after market con
A Henan housewife who was conned into buying 2.5 kilograms of fake eggs at the weekend found they were inedible after she boiled them.
She told the Dahe Daily that she bought the eggs from a van outside a food market in Luoyang on Sunday because the vendor was undercutting market prices by 80 fen (about HK$1) a kilogram.
"I thought they were farmers selling eggs from their own farms and that's why they were cheaper than in the market," she said.
But she soon discovered she could not bite into them and that they did not taste like eggs.
"They tasted like rubber bands … there was a congealed mass inside and the yolks were red," she said.
The egg vendor fled in his van when officers from Luoyang's industrial and commercial bureau turned up.