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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 5 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I fool-proofed the question..."Which came first, the egg of a chicken, or the chicken?". And you can't say they use eggs in dinosaur shaped pasta. /s

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

In that case the chicken came first, regardless of how we define "chicken", we can reuse that definition for the first "chicken egg" it laid.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

But how do we define a "chicken egg"? Is it an egg containing a chicken, or an egg that's been laid by a chicken?

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Good point. Now I'm less sure.

I guess any "egg containing a chicken" came first, by definition. I don't think I would accept anything that didn't come from an egg as my canonical first chicken, anyway.