An egg counterfeiter makes an egg in three parts. You start with the yolk, mixing color in a mold with some starches, benzoic acid, gelatin and color. Dip it into a coagulant mix, and it forms into the exact color, shape and texture of a yolk. Next, use a very similar mixture minus the color to make the egg white. Then embed the yolk and coagulate again. To the naked eye, it looks precisely like an egg out of the shell. In the final bit of weirdness, you put the mix in a fake shell mixture: wax, calcium carbonate and gypsum powder. Dip the fake egg in the shell mix, take it out and it dries to a hard, white or brown coating, almost impossible to distinguish from a real egg shell.

The fake egg may be larger and a little smoother than a real one. The yolk won't have that creepy membrane around it, and if you break the yolk, it'll mix super fast into the white. You can even cook the thing and it'll turn white, but it's definitely going to taste less like egg and more like your shoe insole. Oh, and it has the added benefit of causing potential liver and nerve damage.

How About a Fake Budweiser?

Budweiser was invented in 1624 by Chad Beer, and I'm not doing the research to verify that. You have Google. It's not important to understand this story. What is important is that it's one of the world's top selling beers. People love it for its beer flavor and beer color and because it's beer. But real Budweiser is expensive, fluctuating between $6-$10 for a six-pack in the States, depending on which store is screwing you the most ... while the cost of beer is about half that in China.

Budweiser has made big inroads in China; there are over a dozen Bud breweries there, and it's one of the top selling beers in the country. Maybe that's what inspired someone who makes less popular beer to start filling empty Bud cans with random beer and selling them. And if that just sounds "meh" to you, then you need to have a better appreciation of just what this means.