Hey southerners!!!

[LostInAnomie]

I just got back from a trip down south and I have a question. What is the deal with all the pickled eggs? Every damn gas station I stopped in between Kentucky, and Alabama had huge displays of pickled eggs of all varieties. Do you southern folk actually eat that stuff?

[neoteric lefty]

1. you would be surprised at what southern folk eat

they can use every single part of the pig for something edible.

[Wcross]

7. Thats right....

From snooter to tooter, the entire pig is edible.

[Whitacre D_WI]

11. Tous est bon dans le cochon!

[TheWizardOfMudd]

2. Pickling is just preserving

As jellies, jams, peppers, bitter greens, cucumbers and herrings.

I'm betting the eggs were boiled before pickled. So, its like putting pickles and boiled eggs into tuna salad, only without the tuna.

You should have eaten one so you could tell us how it tasted!

[LostInAnomie]

4. I'll pass

I don't eat anything that I would have to plunge my hand into a murky brine solution to grasp. Anyway, it would be hard dig around in that glass jar while I was driving.

[liberalitch]

18. No, you shouldn't have...

having lived in Va. all my life I have seen any number of allegedly edible things floating in jars in gas stations and hardware stores..... NEVER would I eat ANY of them.

My grandmother used to make pickled eggs and they were HORRID!
There is so much more actually edible stuff in southern cuisine.... try some chicken and dumplings (Dropped not rolled) or somethin'

[Maddy McCall]

3. No, I don't eat them.

I don't know anyone who eats them.

[Rocinante]

5. Ok

How many times did you have to gas up between Alabama and Kentucky? There are plenty of gas stations in Tennessee that only sell gas. But there are a lot of places that sell gas, pickled eggs and beer. I would make the stops for the beer and gas and forget about the eggs.

[vptpt]

6. Pickled eggs are yummy

You should try them sometime. We usually pickle our easter eggs every year, after the Egg Fight Club gets finished with them.

[RebelOne]

8. I live in Georgia and I sure as hell don't eat that stuff.

[cleofus1]

9. mmmmmmmmmmmmm....

pork rinds, pickled eggs, pigs feet and fried chicken....i must watch my boyish figure....

[izzie]

10. That was big in the North when I grew up.

We had chicken in the 40's and I recall my mother made the eggs up for places all over. I used to laugh at kids who would say, your rich in that big house and cars, as we all worked all the time. My sister and I had to care for those 50 chickens and clean eggs and cart them around. My father loved busy hands.Frankly I could never understand how anyone in their right mind would eat a pickled egg.

[Don_G]

12. If You Were Stuck On A Long Trip

With your wife and children in a closed-in car, a few pickled eggs goes a long way in keeping their trap shut.

[Stuckinthebush]

13. Hell, no....we just like to see what y'all have to say about 'em

Every now and then a guy from Maine will pick up a pickled egg or pigs foot and try it in order to experience "local food".

We all get a big laugh out of that.

:D

[pagerbear]

14. Another Southern delicacy: boiled peanuts!

From roadside stands! Yum!

[liberalitch]

19. NOW we're talkin'

Silver queen corn in the summer time.....
hell yes, raw right off the cob!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

15. I love pickled eggs esp. those that I make.

Now if I could only find a place that sells really good grape leaf pickles!

[trof]

16. Pickled QUAIL eggs.

Love 'em.

[dawg]

17. I won't eat that crap.

Pickled eggs are only the start of it. There are also pickled pigs feet (floating around in jars), pig ears, gizzards, brains, and tongue. Also, chitlins.

My mother would probably eat some of the above, but I wouldn't.

[liberalitch]

20. Pickled pigs feet and butter milk....

my dad thought he was in heaven if he could get that combo going.

[wyldwolf]

21. did you miss the deep fried dill pickles?

mmmm mmmmm!

[blindpig]

22. those suckers are absolutely evil

Now, I don't know what they taste like but when they exit the digestive system in gasous form, well, I don't think there is anything worse. Buddy of mine used to resort to them as revenge against me during long beer drinking/snakehunting road trips. I didn't deserve THAT, honest.