"On Naming Things
Fetuses are now called unborn children. I like the logic behind this innovation; from now on I shall call living adults undead corpses. And for breakfast I will no longer order fried eggs but fried unborn chickens."
From Echidne of the Snakes.
4 comments:
Well, strictly speaking, they're chicken periods.
A friend of mine (a vegetarian) once accidentally ate a chicken abortion in China. He thought it was a boiled egg, but it was actually a special Chinese delicacy where they take a fertilized unhatched egg and boil it (rather a nasty death for the chicken foetus, but then, it mightn't feel it much) and serve it in an egg-cup. My friend was very traumatized when he went to dip his toast into the yolk.
kudos, sofiya. Was going to comment on the unfertilized aspect of the eggs, but 'chicken periods' takes it to a whole new level. I'm impressed, but I'm so glad I hate eggs...
Where's the barfing emoticon?
I will be keeping a close eye on any korean egg delicacies in that case...
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