So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth… - Mark Forsyth

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So familiar are eggs to us, however, that in the eighteenth century they were referred to as cackling farts, on the basis that chickens cackled all the time and eggs came out of the back of them.

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eggs farts breakfast chickens

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