A real one!
I was talking to a friend about a month ago about what my parrot eats, and mentioned that he likes a bit of cooked egg. She was horrified and said 'that's cannibalism!' Turns out she though the yolk of an egg was what eventually developed into the chick, and the white was what the chick ate while in the egg. I corrected her. We laughed.

However, as it turns out virtually everyone I've asked since, and virtually everyone she has asked since was of the same opinion - that a living, breathing creature could somehow develop from a bag of yellow gooey stuff that's nice to dip fingers of bread into once heated (but not too much). Virtually everyone.

I live in Devon.
(iwrite4u, Fri 5 Feb 2016, 17:25, 10 replies)

Fuck Devon.

(eViLegion Chief Commissioner of the Scottish Lunacy Board, Fri 5 Feb 2016, 17:56, closed)

How is that canabalism?
It's not like you was giving it cooked parrot egg. If that's the case, then I'm a cannibal because I had a steak pie for tea yesterday
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Fri 5 Feb 2016, 18:51, closed)

At my sister's school they had chickens to teach the kids about where food comes from
They'd learn about feeding the chickens and collecting the eggs and get some to take home. She said the number of parents who came up to her worried that the eggs would hatch into chicks was astonishing, especially when they still didn't get it even after she pointed out they didn't have a rooster. You'd have thought parents out of everyone would be familiar with the processes required to make new life :/
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 5 Feb 2016, 20:31, closed)

But how does the rooster get his penis through the hard shell, ANSWER ME THAT

( drimble he'd been white, he'd been black, Sat 6 Feb 2016, 13:35, closed)

This afternoon my colleagues were having a conversation about poached eggs
That included the line "there's a thin line between a yolk and a chick"
(Roger McGough-Pipe, Mon 8 Feb 2016, 22:59, closed)

I think this is because when they show you cell division at school, it looks vaguely like an egg.
And they conflate that with the fact eggs begin as single-celled organisms.
( Slippery Mick ‏, Sat 6 Feb 2016, 10:36, closed)

I've just had to look this up to make sure you weren't trolling me
It turns out I'm really quite ignorant : /
(SimianKid internet faffer, Tue 9 Feb 2016, 14:56, closed)

I just eat the shells to be safe.

( 2 Can Chunder Word to your mums, I came to prod bums, Wed 10 Feb 2016, 0:46, closed)

well, they don't look very different
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QYDiYGvdh0&t=20

I assumed the yolk grew into a chick the same way an undifferentiated lump of potato can sprout a stalk and leaves and whatnot. I now know different.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Fri 12 Feb 2016, 17:10, closed)