chicken or egg?

**GeezerSteve** · 01-22-2014, 05:40 PM

i've always been under the impression that the egg came first. I thought I read this somewhere (but can't find anything that actually says otherwise). One of my breakfast partners, who was complaining about runny eggs, thinks the chicken came first because, he says, an egg couldn't exist unless there were a chicken to lay it. I suggested that maybe his runny eggs were coming from a lousy cook, he got defensive about it, busted out the menu and said he couldn't find anything about whether the chicken or the egg came first …..

so now i'm here asking the tgr collective: which came first? chicken or egg?

thanks

**Below Zero** · 01-22-2014, 05:44 PM

Chuck Norris came first

**cold_smoke** · 01-22-2014, 05:53 PM

You must be trolling, but I will play.

It is a rhetorical question... How did dinosaurs produce young? What came first Dinosaurs or Chickens? There you have the Egg before the Chicken. Chuck Norris allowed two to live and the rest is history.

**GeezerSteve** · 01-22-2014, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by cold_smoke

You must be trolling, but I will play.

It is a rhetorical question...

Yeah, fine, easy for you to say, but tell that to my bud with the runny eggs.

**userA** · 01-22-2014, 05:58 PM

god or the big bang could change the equation.
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**HansJob** · 01-22-2014, 06:02 PM

Chickens descended from dinosaurs cause Noah couldn't put T-Rex on da boat, Mon.

**El Chupacabra** · 01-22-2014, 06:07 PM

**Mofro261** · 01-22-2014, 06:09 PM

Chuck Norris is a chicken fucker?

Maybe his rant was really about a thousand years of drakeness.

**PNWbrit** · 01-22-2014, 06:09 PM

Exactly how "runny" were the eggs?

One man's runny is another man's perfect scramble/omelette/soft boil or poach

There is NOTHING worse than over cooked eggs.

**GeezerSteve** · 01-22-2014, 06:10 PM

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

There is NOTHING worse than over cooked eggs.

This from a man raised on mushy peas

**Mofro261** · 01-22-2014, 06:11 PM

Originally Posted by PNWbrit

There is NOTHING worse than over cooked eggs.

except MAYBE under cooked eggs.

**systemoverblow'd** · 01-22-2014, 06:53 PM

If you can stick a fork in your scrambled and pick up a giant chunk, they are WAY overdone. Fact.

**DoWork** · 01-22-2014, 10:13 PM

Simple biology. One cell had to come before two therefore the egg came first in some form or other. What laid the egg and what came out are another story.

**::: :::** · 01-22-2014, 10:30 PM

While both are good

Fried chicken > fried eggs

End of story

**stuckathuntermtn** · 01-22-2014, 10:59 PM

It's evolution, baby! Do dodo do

**MakersTeleMark** · 01-22-2014, 11:06 PM

Rog Spook?

**Timberridge** · 01-23-2014, 07:59 AM

Has anyone here ever eaten balut?

"Balut are duck eggs that have been incubated until the fetus is all feathery and beaky, and then boiled alive. The bones give the eggs a uniquely crunchy texture.The egg, served with a little salt after being boiled.It is commonly sold as streetfood in the Philippines. They are common, everyday food in countries in Southeast Asia, such as Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam.Balut is eaten in the shell. It's often served with beer. "

**Captain Awesome** · 01-23-2014, 08:31 AM

I work with this Filipina girl who insists that they're "really delicious" and has promised (threatened?) to bring me one. I'm not sure if I can go through with it...

**Viva** · 01-23-2014, 11:21 AM

I'll guess that eggs were the consequence of metazoans becoming increasingly complex, the evolution towards sexual reproduction (in some beasts) and an increasing competition for limited resources. I'll further venture that insects evolved egg laying capacity before avians/reptilians, so, in that respect, eggs existed before chickens.

Edit- I once dated a Filipina MILF who thought that boiled-chick-in-the-egg shit was gross.

**DoWork** · 01-23-2014, 12:35 PM

Originally Posted by Captain Awesome

I work with this Filipina girl who insists that they're "really delicious" and has promised (threatened?) to bring me one. I'm not sure if I can go through with it...

Seriously, show her your bacon and teach her what good tastes like!

**Timberridge** · 01-23-2014, 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by DoWork

Seriously, show her your bacon and teach her what good tastes like!

I find this comment very derogatory towards women and Filipino women in particular.

Just curious Viva, I've heard Filipino women are great at doing laundry, is this true?