We’ve probably always foraged eggs from birds from before we were even modern humans.
Eggs are an easy source of protein and calories that don’t take much of a fight.
Chances are the unfertilized egg (what we use today, generally,) probably got started being used when they domesticated chickens sometime around 5,000 BCE (iirc,) in south east Asia (where chickens were first domesticated.)
Egyptians, Greeks, Roman’s all had robust poultry. (even Mars loved him some fried chicken,)
For most of our history, we would have used everything we could from livestock, so it would have been a matter of time.
That still doesn’t explain how chocolate eggs come out of a rabbit’s ass…
Do you really want to know?
It’s simple. You tie up the rabbit so it can’t move, then you force feed it chocolate.
Then you force it to shit into a mold. while it’s still warm it becomes egg-shaped.
(actually I never understood that one either, I’m just making shit up here. though. not the cruelest thing we’ve ever done for food.)
Now you gotta ask AI…
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It’s paganism and the christians back in the day wanted to make it easier for the pagans to convert so they added pagan holidays and made them christian holidays. Which is why Easter has eggs and bunnies. Both are fertile idols in paganism and are in spring.
The chicken is unique in that it wants to keep laying eggs until it fills its nest up, where other birds will just lay a set number. This means if you take the egg every day, you suddenly have an egg machine on your hands. Eggs being very nutritious, this is very advantageous. This made it one of the earlier domesticated animals we have evidence for.
If memory serves anyway.
Damn. You must be pretty old. Respect.
Because pre-historic Filipinos looked at their bowl of foraged berries, tubers, leaves, and meat and said, “I bet a fried egg on this would be tits.”
This is now canon
Early humans ate a lot of things.
The ones that ate non-food things died.
The ones that ate eggs lived and passed on their genes.
most eggs, most of the time those that ate rotten eggs died those that at eggs cracked but not eaten in a period which would later be suggested by the food and drug administration for safe storing temperatures for eggs died
Holy punctuation, Batman!
“Where we’re going, we don’t need roads” ~ Doc Brown
Hunger. How did humans start eating anything. Hunger.
Explains shellfish, doesn’t it?
I used to eat from my umbilical cord, but damn if I couldn’t afford the rent after the first 9 months…
Eggs are a typical foraging food. Our ancestors likely grabbed any eggs they could find when they could find them. Eventually we started farming in SE Asia and the ancestors of the chicken hung out near the plentiful feedstock of rice fields and made their nests nearby. Over time they got used to humans and we kept taking their eggs, as we had done when we found their eggs in the wild. Around 3,000 years ago we had the chicken, an easy to care for food pooping source of meat that we had bred to poop food regardless of time of year. The bird later spread all over the planet.
Fastfoward to more recent times and we have selectively bred and drugged up a bird that reliably poops food every day and can yield the maximum amount of meat possible.
Disclaimer: Speculation
Probably because our primitive ancestors saw other creatures eating eggs, and thought to themselves ‘hey, that must be food’
A better question would be, when did we start cooking eggs?.. 🤔
For me, it was about 6pm this evening, I had it in a burger.
Awesome! 👍
Side note though, experts advise that people make sure their eggs are fully cooked, to avoid the bird flu.
So, no over easy for a while…
I would go even further: Our primitive ancestors likely descended from proto-humans that descended from primates that were already foraging eggs. Some modern apes and other mammals eat eggs as well, we’ve likely been eating eggs since hundreds of thousands of years before the first human evolved.
In a sense, that line of though is interesting: When we think of “observing other animals eating something, and then deciding to eat it”, we’re almost implicitly forgetting that we are descendants of exactly those types of animals, that “just know” what is safe to eat, and that some of the knowledge we have about food is potentially passed down from even before the first primates evolved.
Still, it kinda begs the bigger question…
When exactly did our ancient ancestors observe that eggs come from a creature’s ass, and decide ‘hey, this is okay to eat, let’s make it a daily breakfast’?
Exactly! I mean… some reptiles eat eggs, so we could be talking about something that happened before our ancestors had developed the concept of an ass. I don’t think it’s far-fetched to think that eating eggs may be as old a concept as eggs themselves. In that case, the first egg-eaters evolved alongside the first egg-layers, and were eating proto-eggs before even the modern egg existed.
Imagine if zebras started evolving very tough placentas over time, and the foals started lying around in them for a couple days before popping out: Lions would keep eating newborn zebras, and no single lion generation would notice that they were slightly different from 1000 years prior. Give that development a million years or whatever and you now have egg-laying zebras and egg-eating lions!
