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| " | CyberCornEntropic wrote: |
| Their own species' eggs or any eggs? Because you leave open a lot of possibilities. |
| " | Lots of non-birds produce eggs, although most are probably not suitable for consumption as we think of the term. Fish, amphibians, reptiles, and monotremes spring to mind, and some of those are eaten by real life birds (and humans). |
| " | As of birds, there's still a wide range of possibilities. If it's a world where sapients and non-sapients coexist, then an anthro chicken (for example) might have little problem with eating a feral chicken's eggs. |
| " | Or they might find that disgusting. It would be the similar to a human eating the meat of a monkey. |
| " | Some would be okay with it, but others would be horrified. However, an anthro chicken horrified at eating a feral chicken's eggs would most likely have little problem with making an omelet out of a feral duck's or feral ostrich's eggs. (In this case, the ferals are assumed to be non-sapient.) |
| " | If you're thinking of an anthro bird eating another anthro bird's eggs, be it that of another species or their own, that would depend on culture and individual. Some might consider it heinous and barbaric, even if the eggs are all unfertilized. Others would consider another species' eggs okay, but forbid the consumption of their own. Some probably wouldn't care if one ate their own species' unfertilized eggs and the layer was okay with the consumption. It's kind of like a human drinking human milk. Most in our society would be disgusted by it, but a few have been okay with it. |
| " | In a culture such as ours here in the US, I'd think it would be frowned on as most people would argue there's too strong of the possibility of cracking open the egg of an underdeveloped chick. Accidental abortion, anyone? Of course, others would argue that the differences between a fertilized and an unfertilized egg are too obvious, even for an idiot. (And who knows? The chick of an anthro bird would develop differently from that of a feral bird, so maybe it's not an abortion but a preemie instead.) |
| " | In any case, a bird eating her own unfertilized eggs would be an acquired taste and even a bit of a kink, |
| " | much like a mouse slugging down her own milk in tea. |
| " | She'd probably more open to swapping her eggs with another bird's (even one of her own kind's) just to have a degree of psychological distance from her meals. |
| " | dmfalk wrote: |
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Pretty much covers the majority of species, since only mammals are live-birth. (Caviar, comes to mind, as an egg product consumed by humans, not coming from birds...) |
| " | Or just regarded as a byproduct... |
| " | In my worldverse, that would be true... (The non-sapient part...) |
| " | Or a society that might restrict distribution of unfertilized eggs of anthro birds because of ignorance. |
| " | 20 years ago, I was working with a fellow furry writer on a story, never completed, with just that premise... |
| " | A more acceptable route, to be sure... Only that Harmony isn't average..... :O |
| " | A few years ago, i was conceiving a story idea where someone went to a planet of egg-laying creatures, with both bird and mammal attributes (though not as distinct as a griffon), and that it was a tradition of offering a freshly-layed egg of their own to a visitor, and that it was an insult to refuse.... |
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I don't see many humans as wanting to drink the milk of a monkey, either. :o |
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Wouldn't be the first time or the last. :\ |
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I know. I wrote a vignette based on your concept. :p |
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"I love eating my babies! A-hah-hah-hah-hah! ...Kidding." :p |
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Which would guarantee a story-generating conflict if the visitor considered the offer of the egg to be an insult. :p |
| " | dmfalk wrote: |
| And yet they will with cow, sheep, goat, horse, buffalo, ox, yak, camel, llama and alpaca.... |
| " | Given that most people are unaware that many (most?) birds do lay unfertilised eggs on a routine basis (though not as prolific as chickens) and that birds do eat eggs (their own and others'), I wouldn't be surprised. (Part of my delay in creating Harmony had to do with the research on these two facts.) |
| " | War breaks out, eggs are tossed, shell shock everywhere! ;) |
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"Alas, understanding can come at a steep price. Two hundred of your years ago, my people attempted an alliance with Qual'sais, another powerful nation of our world. As was sometimes customary, our emirate at the time offered the freshly cooked eggs of his wife to the visiting Qual'sai archon. To us, this was a great honor. In some respects, it is like a female sharing herself without the improprieties of out-and-out adultery. Unfortunately, the Qual'sai took this to be a grievous insult. To them, the archon had been offered the worst of offal. Naturally, the archon refused, thereby insulting us as well. The alliance promptly collapsed and war broke out, lasting for, I think, nearly eight of your years. Even today, our cultures have little to do with each other. To many of us, they're stomachless plucks. To them, we're– well, considering the company, I shan't repeat it. It's quite vulgar. It has been long debated whether the offer was an error in judgement or a deliberate insult. I lean towards the former myself. Emirate Nihaan was more plumage than brains." |
| " | CyberCornEntropic wrote: | ||
There is a degree of psychological separation there though. Beyond being nonstandard for milking (and most likely too hard to milk anyway), monkey are generally a bit too human-like for many people to take. Related would be my analogy of an anthro chicken not being okay with a feral chicken's eggs but fine with a feral duck's eggs. But humans have wacky cuisines anyway, so, eh. |
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So, basically, mammals would have more trouble with the concept than birds do. Even if the mammals ate feral eggs, anthro's egg could disgust them. There wouldn't be enough of a degree of separation due to the sapience issue. |
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Eggs-actly. :o <Snerp!> |
| " | dmfalk wrote: |
| And I got you to write something! Egg-cellent! :) |
