Shell shocked: Chinese woman stunned by translucent 20-year-old boiled egg that time forgot which turned into a blood-red ‘ruby’
- Forgotten boiled egg that mother packed for school lunch discovered in house 20 years after it was cooked
- Online observers marvel at the translucent chicken ovum with one dubbing it a ‘pharaoh egg’
A carefully kept, two-decades-old boiled chicken egg which over time has turned into a “ruby” has amazed Chinese social media.
The keeper of the 20-year-old egg, surnamed Fu, shared her precious fossil on social media platform Douban and it soon attracted the attention of curious online observers, with one nicknaming it “the pharaoh egg”.
Translucent, it is of the size of a pistachio nut and feels like a hard plastic ball.
Fu told the Xiaoxiang Morning Herald on March 7 that when held against the light, the egg turns breathtakingly blood red, revealing with many delicate cracks showing from inside.
From eastern China’s Shandong province, Fu said her mother bought her the egg because it was “exceptionally small” 20 years ago while she was in primary school, and boiled it for her to eat at school the next morning.
Having completely forgotten about it for three days, Fu said she dared not eat it fearing it might have gone bad. However, the small egg was so cute that she put it above the refrigerator instead of throwing it away.