re: Anybody here ever eat or cook a boiled egg gumbo?

My grandmother would do it every now and then. I don't ever remember it in chicken and sausage or okra gumbo, only seafood when she didn't have quite enough seafood to go around.

Definitely a protein stretcher sort of thing; there never was a shortage of chicken, sausage, or okra because my grandparents grew or made their own, but seafood wasn't something that was readily available to them, so my grandmother had to make do with what she had on hand sometimes. Also, like someone else said, egg stew was on the menu sometimes or a meatball and egg stew if she had just a little bit of ground beef left she needed to use up.