What the heck are "Dude Eggs"?

I was watching Viva La Bam on MTV, and there’s a scene where they buy a jar of “Dude Eggs”, and coerce uncle Vito to eat one. When he discovers that they are labled “dude eggs”, he spits it out and claims they are human testicles from cadavers???

That can’t true, can it? What are they, really? Google no helpy.

Any human body parts will be labeled with rather intimidating verbiage and one or two of those neat biohazard symbols. They will not be called “dude eggs” and they will not be sold to anyone doing a reality TV show.

They could have bought prairie oysters, which are bull’s testicles. Those are common enough that my mom’s hometown (Clinton, Montana) has an annual Testicle Festival where the local delicacy is sold and, reputedly, eaten. I’ve never had the pleasure, but bull’s testicles are something your average nobody could buy over-the-counter.

Hmm… I think they were too small to be bull balls. These were smaller than a chicken egg, roughly the same size as people balls.

In a movie or tv show, they’re no doubt props. Not real.

In real life, you could always have human-cadaver-testicles-in-a-jar for lunch, but the formaldehyde smell might give them away.

If they were harvested from live donors (crosses legs and yells “ouch!”) then they could be pickled in a vinegar brine I guess. Probably a bit more tasty. (Did I just say that?)

You were watching a freakin’ movie, for Cecil’s sake!! Shake it off.

Viva La Bam a reality TV show. These things do exist. . . as to what they are I’ve no idea. Perhaps someone will come along and enlighten us.

Well, it on was again and my Tivo picked it up.

I paused when Bam held the jar up to the camera, and the top two ingredients were eggs and vinegar. So apparently they are just some kind of spicy pickled eggs. They still look smaller than your average chicken egg, but they could be just small chicken eggs. They were too big to be quail eggs or the like.

“Ah, senor. Sometimes the bull wins!” :smiley:

As an experienced egg-pickler, I can testify that eggs shrink notieably when pickled.

These are quail eggs that are pickled jarred and sold by Skipper Food Processing in Geraldine, Alabama.
I know this because I am employed there.

Did they really pass up the opportunity to call it the Testival?

Do you know anything about the origin of the expression? Googling just says that it’s used in the South, but I can’t find anything more.

Are y’all aware that this thread is 14 years old?

At least the company’s still around.

Credit where credit is due … it’s taken 14 years to get a definitive answer.

**Melissamccreless ** I doffs me lid to ya, gov.

Yes thank you for the answer, **Melissamccreless. ** Hope you stick around!

While it is nice to get information from the horse’s mouth so-to-speak; a quick google comes up with the same information from multiple sites (including this one). Of course, this may not have been the case 14 years ago.

Wow. See? This is one of the phenomena that makes the Dope so great. Go, Melissamccreless!!

What about zombie testicles. What are those called?

Raisins.

Actually, most bulls are made into steers before they are 100 days old – pre-puberty. At that time, their testicles are much smaller.

The ‘bulls balls’ that you see in photos are from quality breeding stock animals, several years older and much more developed.

‘Prairie oysters’ available for eating are usually from the gelding of young male calves (technically, not even a bull yet) and as such are much smaller than the testicles of a mature bull.

LOL! Priceless!

The gentleman who originally began making and selling this product was named Dude Berry and that is where the name came from.