The Long Egg meme centers around a real food product—a long, cylindrical hard-boiled egg created primarily for the catering industry to ensure every slice is uniform. While its origins are industrial, the internet adopted it as a staple of surreal and 'cursed' humor in the mid-2010s. The image of a foot-long egg tube is both fascinating and deeply unsettling, leading to memes that treat the object as a cosmic horror, a divine entity, or simply a bizarre feat of engineering. It often appears in shitposting circles where the humor relies on the absurdity of a mundane object being stretched to unnatural proportions.