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[–] christophski@feddit.uk 107 points 1 month ago (4 children)

The chicken egg came before the chicken, as the thing that laid the chicken egg was not quite a chicken

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 month ago
[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I had this exact discussion within the last year. The first egg was a chicken egg. Every subsequent egg was a chicken's egg.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Until a chicken lays an egg containing something that is not quite a chicken

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

See, I think of the egg as being possessed by the mother, so it would still be a chicken's egg to me, but it could simultaneously be a "something else" egg.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 month ago

It would be a chicken's non-chicken egg

[–] Confused_Emus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

Do you want basilisks? Because this is how you get basilisks.

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Schroedinger's egg

[–] Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago

That is a linguistical question. What does "chicken" in "chicken egg" mean? What is chicken? What is in the egg or who laid it?

[–] MindTraveller@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago

Is a chicken egg defined as an egg that will grow into a chicken, or as an egg laid by a chicken?