An Eggstraordinary Questiion

Dear Witterpitted,
      What came first, the chicken or the egg?

     -Sincerely,
      Janice S.

Dear Janice,
     Hmm. The chicken, because, first the chicken had a mommy. The mommy laid the chicken in the egg, and that baby who just got laid grew up and that chicken got an egg, and that egg cracked, and the other chicken was Mommy next.

-Emmeline (4)

Dear Janice,
     The egg, cause it hasn't hatched yet. Duh.

-Audrey (7)

Dear Janice,
     The egg, because dinosaurs had eggs, and there were not chickens back when dinosaurs were alive.

-Clara (8)

Dear Janice,
      The chicken came before the chicken egg, but the egg was invented long before the chicken. We had eggs back when the dinosaurs were alive. The chicken was originally placed on the earth as a chicken, and later it laid an egg.

-Tim (13)

Dear Janice,
  The egg came first because how would there be a chicken if there wasn't an egg?

-Thomas( 13)

Dear Janice,
     As the great leader of the Reuben dynasty would say, " I would most emphatically state that the chicken came before the egg for various obvious reasons." Sadly the great emperor, Reuben the two-hundred and fifty second, died at the moment he said this and the world will never know the incredulously wise reasons he had to convince the world of the fact that they have been misled for thousands of years.

-Reuben (15)

Dear Janice,
    The short answer to the question, "Did the chicken come first, or did the egg come first?" is, "Yes."   But, you asked, "What came first, the chicken or the egg?" so I can't get away with the simple answer.  This circular question has been asked throughout the ages. It's impossible for a chicken egg to just spontaneously appear without first being laid by a chicken.  It is equally impossible for a chicken to be created without going through the typical process of growing inside of an egg.  So, all funny business aside, this very question could possibly lead one to the conclusion that there is a supreme creator, capable of creating an egg that did not grow in a chicken and a chicken that did not grow in an egg.  There is no other reasonable explanation. So, which was it?  I subscribe to the theory of a grown up chicken being created because an egg would have needed a chicken to sit on it and a baby chicken would have needed a Mama chicken to survive.  Babies need Moms.

-Becky (36)

Dear Janice,
     Neither the Chicken or the Egg came first - Adam came first, and he was neither a chicken, or an egg. Truthfully, I've always found this question to be philosophical rather than literal. I suppose those that like to eat eggs, would argue that the egg came first, and those who like Chicken, would argue that chicken came first. As for me, I like to eat both the same, and even at the same meal, and so if I had to choose, I would eat eggs before chicken, simply because they could go bad before the chicken - but ultimately, I would not leave either out too long.

   Therefore, the answer to your question is that it does not matter which came first, so long as you consume both within a safe amount of time.

 - Judd (38)