Egg inside egg found at breakfast

BBC ^ | 12 Mar 2009 | BBC

[BGHater]

A woman from Somerset discovered another egg inside the boiled egg she was preparing to eat for her breakfast.

Ann Lewis, 47, from Taunton, said she had eaten plenty of "double-yolkers" before but that she was very surprised at the unusual find.

Douglas Russell, from the Natural History Museum, said: "A complete egg found within a complete egg is relatively rare."

Ms Lewis, who works as a waitress, bought the egg from a local farm.

Experts puzzled

Douglas Russell, speaking about the phenomenon in the New Scientist, said: "As the curator of the British Natural History Museum egg collection, I've come across quite a few examples of egg oddities.

"Double eggs (as opposed to multiple-yolked eggs) are less common than some other zoological anomalies and consequently the ovum in ovo has attracted specific scholarly attention for hundreds of years.

"Several theories have been proposed for the origin of double eggs.

The phenomenon is known as "ovum in ovo"

[BGHater]

It can always be worse.

Live fish found in uncracked duck egg

[bornred]

Did you hear the one about the Octo-Mom breakfast?

[A. Morgan]

It appears someone at the BBC has not been around very many eggs.

[RobRoy]

Clearly she should sue the restaurant.

/s

[pepsi_junkie]

Buy one get one free sale?

[Liberty Valance]

[PowderMonkey]

Hmmm. I suspect fowl play...

[Blood of Tyrants]

Yea. That looks real. NOT!

[aeonspromise]

Whats the deal? Kinda like porkulus 2 inside of porkulus 1..
Nancy has many more eggs where they came from..

[SunkenCiv]

I shell never click on another one of these topic titles.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2205165/posts?page=7#7

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

You've spawned a short creative streak...
I'll say my piece and close my beak.

I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree
An ovary in an ovary.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

LOL!

I’ve never seen the egg-in-an-egg in person, but about once a month, a hen lays an egg with a very, very thin shell. It’s like picking up a glob of jell-o. Pretty interesting, though the eggs that aren’t perfect get mushed up and go back into their mash.

I know. It’s sort of cannibalistic, but it’s good protein for them!

[Big Giant Head]

We had one of these ‘egg within an egg’ just a couple months ago. It was huge. It took up my whole palm.

[SunkenCiv]

Breakfast Blues

You give me hard eggs in the morning. Cheese omelet you go.
You give me such hard eggs in the morning. Cheese omelet you go.
You hot butter grit your teeth and bare it. I donut love you anymore.
(Get that glazed look off’a your face).

Ham bacon you to leave me. I never sausage misery.
Ham bacon you to leave me. I never sausage misery.
You treated me so ungrapefruitly. You gave me raisin to be free.
(Orange juice ashamed of yourself?)

What do you eggs benedict me to do girl? I got muffin left to say
(You butter come up with somethin’.)
What do you eggs benedict me to do girl? I got muffin left to say.
You left such a waffle toast in my mouth. You biscuit out of town today.
(Ain’t gonna leave the home fries burning for ya.)

[Repeat the first verse changing the last line:]
“Ain’t gonna quiche you anymore”