Texas woman thinks something looks off about her Dunkin egg. Then she touches the yolk—
Fast-food eggs do not always look like the ones people make at home. But when an egg looks a little too perfect, it can make customers wonder what they are actually eating.
That does not necessarily mean something is wrong with it. Fast-food restaurants prepare their ingredients differently, which can change how food looks. Still, one Dunkin’ egg looked strange enough for a customer to start touching the yolk to figure out what was going on.
That is what happened to Texas TikTok creator Julia Ann Mobley (@juliaann.x) after a recent trip to Dunkin’. When she looked closely at the egg in her order, the yolk did not look quite right to her. She started rubbing it with her finger, and the video has since received 4.9 million views.
Wait, is that really the yolk?
In the video, Julia shows an egg sitting on top of avocado toast. The white covers most of the bread, while the yellow center looks unusually smooth. She presses her finger against the yolk and begins rubbing it. As some of the yellow comes away, a much lighter section becomes visible underneath.
Her on-screen text makes it clear what she thinks is happening. “went to to @dunkin & WHAT IS THISSS???? painting the yolk onto on our eggs is crazyyyyyyyy,” she writes. Someone off camera then asks, “Are you gonna give it back?” “No. I’m posting this on TikTok,” Julia responds.
Dunkin’s breakfast ingredients have confused customers before, including one who questioned the bacon inside her Wake-Up Wrap after taking a closer look at her order. This time, it was the egg that did not look quite right.
However, the strange appearance does not mean someone at Dunkin literally painted a yolk onto her egg. Dunkin’s current ingredient guide lists its egg patty as containing egg whites and egg yolks along with soybean oil and water. It also contains 2% or less of corn starch, salt, natural flavor, xanthan gum, cellulose gum, and citric acid.
That helps explain one part of the confusion in the comments. The egg served in Dunkin breakfast items is not simply listed as a whole egg cracked directly onto a cooking surface. Still, the video alone cannot establish exactly why Julia’s yolk looked the way it did.
Viewers had plenty of their own explanations, and several people claimed to work or have previously worked at Dunkin. Those claims could not be independently verified. “I worked at dunkin. its imitation egg. hope that helps,” one commenter wrote. Another claimed, “As a Dunkin employee the egg ingredients on the box have more than 5 ingredients… I never eat the eggs at work.”
One person offered a more detailed theory, writing, “This is from a frozen egg loaf, they freeze the eggs in a tube and then slice it and cook it, this slice didnt get much yolk is that all it is.” Others were less interested in explaining it. “Why are you guys acting like eggs are supposed to look like that!?” one viewer asked.
The jokes quickly followed. “I work at Dunkin the egg is actually a Cadbury egg,” one person wrote. Customers can be pretty particular about what they get at Dunkin, from trying a new donut to taking a closer look at an egg. Julia’s viewers were clearly just as curious about what they were seeing.
Some of the explanations in the comments, however, should be taken cautiously. Dunkin’s own ingredient information confirms its egg patty contains more than just egg whites and yolks, but there is no evidence from the video that an employee was actually “painting” yolk onto an egg.
The “painted” yolk theory may be a stretch, but Julia’s confusion is easy to understand when the egg does not look the way she expected. For now, exactly why the yolk in her order looked that way remains unclear.
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