• christophski@feddit.uk
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    The chicken egg came before the chicken, as the thing that laid the chicken egg was not quite a chicken

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

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

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