Catalina Gullo posted about the situation on TikTok, where the video has amassed more than 7.5 million views
In March, Catalina Gullo flew from Connecticut to California to help her grandma Sonny Benz go through boxes of her belongings for her move to Hawaii
Once she arrived at her mom’s house, where she was staying, she noticed her mom had already put out all the Easter decorationsBut upon closer inspection, Gullo couldn’t shake how realistic some of the eggs looked. When she picked them up and felt them, she noticed how much they resembled real eggshells
Catalina Gullo’s mom was in the process of helping her grandma, Sonny Benz, move from San Diego to Hawaii when she called Gullo and asked if she could fly out to help go through some boxes. Gullo, 24, who currently lives in Connecticut with her husband, jumped at the opportunity to fly back home to California and assist her grandma with the move.
Once she arrived at her mom’s house in early March, she and her mom began going through all of Sonny’s things, from documents to boxes of family heirlooms, deciding what to ship to Hawaii and what to get rid of. That’s when Gullo noticed her mom had already put out all the Easter decorations.
“I’m like, ‘Oh, you decorated kind of early,’ ” Gullo recalls telling her mom. “She’s like, ‘Oh, well, I got a whole bunch of Easter décor from Grandma. So I figured, why pack it away just to bring it back out again in a few weeks?’ I was like, ‘Oh, that makes sense.’ ”
As Gullo looked at the decorations on the table, she immediately noticed there were Easter eggs on display. “I’m like, ‘Mom, why did you dye eggs so early? We’re a month-and-a-half out from Easter.’ And she’s like, ‘No, those are artificial decorative eggs I got from Grandma’s closet.’ ”
But upon closer inspection, Gullo couldn’t shake how realistic the eggs looked. When she picked them up and felt them, she noticed how much they resembled real eggshells. However, she didn’t think much of her speculation at the time.
Then, later in the week, the mother-daughter pair continued going through more of Sonny’s belongings, including the countless photo albums she’d kept over the years. It was then that Gullo came across a photo of her mom and dad, who met as teenagers, dyeing Easter eggs as kids.
“We’re like, ‘Oh, they’re so young. Oh, they’re in Grandma’s old kitchen. Oh, how sweet.’ Then the next photo is of the eggs and the bowl. And my mom has that exact same bowl from Sonny, sitting on her table, staged the same way — with Easter grass and the eggs sitting in it,” Gullo says. “I was like, ‘Oh my goodness, these totally look like the eggs sitting on the table.’ I’m like, ‘No, no way. Those aren’t the same eggs.’ ”
So, Gullo went over to check the eggs again, shaking each one. Most of them were quiet, but they felt heavy in her hand. One of the eggs she shook made a noise, and she realized something was inside. The bottom cracked open, revealing what looked like a marble.
“And I’m like, ‘What the heck is this?’ So I’m investigating, and I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness, this is an egg yolk,’ ” she says. “This is not an artificial egg. So, of course, I’m super freaked out and I call my sister and my mom into the room. I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness, look at this! Look at what I found!’ ”
@catalina.ann We’re helping my grandma clean out her apartment before she moves and realized that she gave us 35 year old hard boiled eggs
The family proceeded to crack open a second egg, and discovered the yolk wasn’t intact; it was broken inside. Gullo recalls the texture of the yolk almost like a peanut butter candy. Then, the next one they cracked open was somehow pressurized, and it made a loud popping noise.
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“We all screamed, and then it smelled horrible, too,” she adds. “My dad said, ‘Throw it away. It smells so bad. Get it outside!’ Everyone was cracking up, and Grandma was laughing too. They all teased her, saying, ‘Oh my goodness, we can’t believe you kept these!’
The cracking continued, and with each egg, they found more gross surprises inside. Some eggs were brown, some black, and they all smelled pretty bad. Grandma laughed the whole time, saying, “Oh my goodness, I can’t believe I kept eggs long enough for that to happen,” Gullo says.
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Not long after, Gullo posted a video of the situation to TikTok. When she noticed it start to get traction, she was shocked. Since then, the video has amassed more than 7.5 million views and 2,500 comments.
“the journey these eggs have been on,” one comment read.
“Listen, in this economy we don’t throw out eggs even if they are calcified,” someone else said.
Another user wrote, “35 YEARS?!?!? I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE CONFETTI EGGS.”
“There were so many comments that were like, ‘Those were family heirlooms. You are destroying memories. How could you do that? That’s so cruel. You’re so heartless,’ ” Gullo says. “And my family was all like, ‘What? These were rotten eggs. These were not intentionally kept.’ ”
However, Gullo adds how her grandma, now 85, had been having some memory problems for the last 10 years or so. After reflecting on the situation, Gullo’s mom has speculated that maybe the eggs aren’t as old as the family thinks.
Her mom is holding out hope that the eggs are from 2018, when Sonny was living with the family. But, she will never know for certain.
“Grandma probably dyed Easter eggs with us sometime then and kept some when she was living with us in her room, and nobody realized,” Gullo says. “Then, she just stuffed them away in a box at the end of Easter and wound up holding onto them for eight-ish years.”
“It feels very random,” Gullo says. “But I have to say, throughout this whole process of moving Grandma and packing up all her stuff, a lot of cherished memories have come to the surface, and we’ve realized how fortunate we are to get to have Grandma in our lives. I’m 24, so I’ve had her as a super present part of my life for the last 24 years. And I feel super blessed and grateful to get to have had her all those years and to get to have so many fun memories and the craziness of cracking up in Easter eggs and helping her move.”
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Earlier this week, Gullo says she and her husband dyed a batch of hard-boiled eggs. Since then, she’s been toying with the idea of keeping them as a personal science experiment. But she admits there’s a catch — if they start to smell, her husband won’t be thrilled.
“We’ll see,” she says. “I’m thinking maybe I’ll double Ziploc bag them, stick them in the closet, and check on them next year. But if they get too stinky, I’ll probably just toss them.”
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