pre-cracked egg

Pronounced as 'Pree-Cracked egg,' with 'Pree' rhyming with 'tree,' 'Cracked' rhyming with 'stacked,' and 'egg' as in the breakfast food.

The 'Pre-Cracked egg' meme began to gain popularity around 2018. The original image was first released on November 2, 2018. While the direct popularity of the image itself somewhat declined starting in 2022, the derived 'Machamnae' (Finally) and the speech bubble format of the boy in the bottom right are still actively used in online communities. Furthermore, from 2020 to 2025, various companies and media outlets have consistently re-highlighted this meme through parodies.

'Pre-Cracked egg' literally means an egg that has been cracked beforehand. In Korea, it is also commonly referred to as 'peeled-pre-cracked egg.' This meme is not an actual product for sale, but an image created by a website called 'Obvious Plant,' which satirizes modern societal issues by inventing fictional products. Specifically, it criticizes modern society's overabundance of instant foods produced through unnecessary plastic use and excessive processing.

The original image intentionally maximizes its satirical nature by depicting a complete mess: a design that completely disregards efficiency, eggs that appear to be in poor condition with foam, a typo misspelling 'Finally' as 'Fimally,' and the strange expression of a boy with an unusually long neck. In the Korean translation, 'Fimally' was translated as 'Machamnae,' which became another popular phrase. Although the boy's line 'I enjoy' was mistranslated as '즐겁다' (jeulgeopda, meaning 'it is enjoyable'), this 'Waldo-esque' (awkward/literal) translation perfectly matched the meme's bizarre atmosphere, gaining it cult popularity.

This meme primarily spread through online communities. Considering the parodies by various companies and media outlets such as Children's Science Donga, Nongshim, Limbus Company, SK Telecom, and Mabinogi, it appears to be widely recognized and used among young people aged 10 to 30 who are familiar with internet culture.

• It was parodied in a four-panel comic in Children's Science Donga on April 15, 2020.
• Nongshim parodied this meme when launching Pasta Rang in 2022.

• Limbus Company parodied it as an April Fool's Day event banner in 2023.
• Mabinogi parodied it in an advertisement for the April 2025 Milletian Orientation event.