A poultry matter

Ok, ok, since you asked. Which did come first? The chicken or the egg?  Again, I made it my mission to investigate this, and put it to bed once and for all.

The Domestic Chicken, Gallus Gallus Domesticus, has numbers of 24 billion worldwide at any one time.  That's alive, not frozen or covered in a secret blend of herbs and spices.  They have been domesticated for millennia, and are thought to date back to the dinosaurs.  How cool is that? Deep fried T-Rex and chips.

Now, there are a number of ways of looking at the Chicken/Egg debate.  Here's mine.  The egg came first.  Why? I hear you ask silently.  Well, the Domestic Chicken, evolved a long time ago, millions of years presumably, and is thought to be a hybrid of the Red and Grey Jungle Fowl of the Indian Sub-continent. While evolution is often hazy and long winded, at some point, the first of these hybrid animals evolved after a drunken night of Drambuie and debauchery in the local boozer.  After the mating took place, the first chicken would have been born, from an egg!  Ta-da! Egg came first.  The Red Jungle Fowl never called the Grey, despite promising he would, and the Grey had to raise the universe's first ever chickens alone in a council nest.

So now, you can stop asking!  I'm sure there are people who lack purpose in their life after this revelation, but I'm sure there are hundreds of similar questions that can be sent my way.

One other interesting fact about chicken.  When cannibals have been interviewed about the consumption of human flesh, they have compared the taste to that of chicken.  So next time you are tucking into a McChicken Whopper Bucket, you might as well be eating your own arm!

Oh, and, putting another debate to rest once and for all.  The Chicken Royale with Bacon and Cheese.  THAT is what chickens think about growing up to become.  But only because they've never heard of Pirates or Ninjas.