Millions of eggs are consumed daily in Australia, and one in four people have a tattoo. This makes me wonder: how many Australians are either eating an egg (or product containing egg) or getting tattooed at any one time?
Even given this fact, an egg isn’t necessarily something of which you would expect many (if any) people to have a tattoo. While far from common, they do exist. Along with the tattoos featured in this list, in the past I’ve covered an egg too lazy to be evil, Gudetama.
The number of ways you can prepare eggs is so great that Julia Child had an entire chapter dedicated to them in Mastering the Art of French Cooking, the two-volume cookbook she co-write along with Simone Beck and Louisette Bertholle. Some consider Child as the television cook equivalent to the likes of the painter, Bob Ross. A deviled egg tattoo will metaphorical take elements from the disciplines of Child and Ross, where the client develops a list of “ingredients” of ideas for the “recipe” they desire, with their tattooer “cooking up” the final dish and permanently “painting” their body.
November 2 is National Deviled (Devilled for non-American-English speakers) Egg Day and I managed to find some appropriately themed tattoos to share with you.
Is there room for a deliciously evil deviled egg tattoo in your collection?
It’s not quite a deviled egg, but close enough! An Oni is described as a demon in Japanese folklore.
The Tattooed Archivist 