Hard Boiled Eggs

[m62man]

I bought a pack of four "Goldenlay" Eggs at Big C the other day, and decided to boil them to make some egg mayonnaise to go with a salad. When I came to peel them I noticed that the eggs had been painted to look orange and that the shells were actually a mottled grey colour.

If that were not bad enough, when I cracked the shells, what should have been white was black- and I don't mean dark grey, I mean black! Inside the yolk was yellow, and they did smell like eggs - they weren't "off" or anything.

I couldn't bring myself to eat one, so they went in the bin. Does anybody know what kind of eggs they are?

[p_brownstone]

They are preserved eggs called in Thai "Khai Yiew Ma" - known to Farang as 100 year old eggs.

No need to cook them at all, just peel off the shell and eat cold - great with English mustard.

Patrick