cheater pickled eggs

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My mom often made pickled eggs and pickled beets for our Easter dinner relish tray. I'm not sure if they were traditional for us because we lived in Pennsylvania (they are pretty common in the area where I grew up and you can even find them served at the salad bar in restaurants there) or if she just made them because she liked them, but they were a great way to use up all the hardboiled eggs made at Easter. While Mom would start with canned beets, she usually made her own pickling solution and added her own spices to make the beets, and then used the flavored juice to steep the peeled eggs. I cheated a bit yesterday, and just opened a jar of pickled beets, put peeled eggs in a Mason jar, and poured the juice from the other jar over them. Did I feel a little bit guilty? Just a little. Did they taste the same? Close enough to homemade that I didn't feel bad about it very long! They make pretty deviled eggs, but I sometimes just eat them with a bit of salt and pepper. They have a slightly different flavor than regular hard-boiled eggs, but they're beautifully red/purple. Have you ever eaten pickled eggs? Were they the red kind or the white kind?