# product seen in the movie "Clerks II" - real or sight gag? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 10, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558 "2009-09-10T15:00:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![rainy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@rainy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rainy)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/1 "2009-09-10T15:00:12Z")
While watching Clerks II, there is a scene where the characters are setting up for breakfast in the fast food restaurant they work at. One of the guys opens a can, dumps the contents which is a solid cylinder, white around the outside and yellow at the core and starts slicing it. It is essentially canned eggs, that appear as a real egg might if cooked in a ring. No mention is made of the canned egg, there is a converstation going on and the prep is just sort of window dressing. I’ve always wondered if such a product really exists, or was it just a well played sight gag. It sure as hell caught my attention. -rainy ---
**Author:** ![JerseyFrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bcef8e/32.png) [@JerseyFrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerseyFrank)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/2 "2009-09-10T15:10:50Z")
Just spoke to a former McD’s assistant manager. Two types of eggs… the “folded” variety resembles scrambled eggs. They are real eggs poured from a container and cooked & folded on-site. The egg mcmuffin variety (like you see in Clerks 2) required the use of real, fresh eggs. The cook cracks the egg, pours into a mold, and cooks it. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/3 "2009-09-10T16:03:09Z")
[http://www.foundshit.com/egg-sausage-roll/](http://www.foundshit.com/egg-sausage-roll/) ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/4 "2009-09-10T16:27:53Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > [Egg Sausage Roll » Funny, Bizarre, Amazing Pictures & Videos](http://www.foundshit.com/egg-sausage-roll/) When I worked for a US fast food restaurant (not McD’s) and we had sliced boiled eggs on our salads, they basically came in a tube like the one in this link. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/5 "2009-09-10T16:30:41Z")
I’ve seen those in cafeterias, but never in a fast food restaurant. They’re really only good as garnish. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/6 "2009-09-10T17:07:08Z")
The leading brand name is (was?) Gourmegg. (Or Gourm-Egg) It’s been around for decades, actually - I first saw the things 25 years ago. It was developed in 1968 by Ralston Purina :eek: and soon became the darling of cheap salad bars across the world. I don’t know if the product is off the US market entirely or if it’s just under a different name. ---
**Author:** ![Never\_Say\_Dice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@Never\_Say\_Dice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Never_Say_Dice)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/7 "2009-09-10T18:45:20Z")
[Molded eggs in the news](http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/putting-away-the-brown-bag/?ref=dining) ---
**Author:** ![Never\_Say\_Dice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ee59a6/32.png) [@Never\_Say\_Dice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Never_Say_Dice)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/8 "2009-09-10T18:51:34Z")
gourm egg ---
**Author:** ![typoink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecb155/32.png) [@typoink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/typoink)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2009, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/9 "2009-09-10T19:37:10Z")
Gourm Egg isn’t quite the Clerks II product, though, since it’s “boiled egg” meant as a salad topper. That Clerks product is meant to simulate a ring-poached egg (I know there’s a real name for that, but it’s escaping me). I also think the implication of the Clerks product was that no eggs were actually involved. So it’s not total fiction, but, thankfully, not quite as hideous. ---
**Author:** ![Brainiac](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8797f3/32.png) [@Brainiac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brainiac)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/10 "2009-09-11T00:48:38Z")
What else looks like egg? Tapioca is too lumpy, and pudding costs more than eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/11 "2009-09-11T02:08:12Z")
ugh… makes me never want to eat eggs at a restaurant again. ---
**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/12 "2009-09-11T02:25:26Z")
> [@Serenata67](#): > > ugh… makes me never want to eat eggs at a restaurant again. I never understood the hate for the Gourmegg. They’re just hardboiled eggs made in a tube instead of an eggshell. ---
**Author:** ![Recliner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a88e57/32.png) [@Recliner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Recliner)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/13 "2009-09-11T10:51:47Z")
I recall reading on the production of the Egg McMuffin that its simply (at least, when it was created) an egg dropped into a special “mold” which is placed on the griddle. If anything, I would guess that the “egg roll” shown in the movie would be pricier on a sandwich-by-sanwich basis than simply tossing a real egg into a metal mold. ---
**Author:** ![amanset](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@amanset](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amanset)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/14 "2009-09-11T13:34:52Z")
> [@Recliner](#): > > I recall reading on the production of the Egg McMuffin that its simply (at least, when it was created) an egg dropped into a special “mold” which is placed on the griddle. If anything, I would guess that the “egg roll” shown in the movie would be pricier on a sandwich-by-sanwich basis than simply tossing a real egg into a metal mold. I worked at McD’s as a student. You’re exactly the right, with the addition of there being a little reservoir for water which is shared between the eggs. Ours could do six eggs at a time. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/15 "2009-09-13T13:21:07Z")
mmm…egg log samitches 🆒 Been around long time, real eggs separated cooked and re-formed. Some additives. Pre-sliced for large venues like Airline food preps, Disney, Epcot, Joe’s Roach Coach ect… Made especially for a pre-prepared packaged salad when normal eggs are too inconvenient or too un-uniform to make otherwise, less waste. Not any different than any other Log emulsion product, like Headcheese, liverwurst, mechanically separated chicken parts. Long time ago I could swear McD’s used to use it for the Mcmuffins, because they looked sliced and not cooked all around like a fried egg. ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/16 "2009-09-13T14:01:20Z")
No one who loves laws or fast-food breakfasts should ever watch either being made. If there’s any way to convert a humanly edible organic substance into a cheaper, more convenient imitation of traditional food, the food industry has discovered it. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/product-seen-in-the-movie-clerks-ii-real-or-sight-gag/509558/17 "2009-09-13T15:36:08Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > [Egg Sausage Roll » Funny, Bizarre, Amazing Pictures & Videos](http://www.foundshit.com/egg-sausage-roll/) The writing on the label in that picture says “Boil Egg,” by the way.