Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/03/08/this-ginormous-egg-had-another.html
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I understand this is how chickens lay eggs in Russia.
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Eggception!
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I guess “babushka” is a common mistake, but the word they are looking for is matryoshka.
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That poor hen.
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I feel like this would lead to a brutal case of hemorrhoids
She’s gotta have one sore cloaca.
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Seems a lot of folks are quite fond of this one.
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Release your mind and have the Quatto omelet.
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Coming here to say that, thank you.
I loved that book as a kid (who didn’t daydream about hatching their own pet dinosaur?) but $34 is pretty damn steep for a children’s novel.
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You just know that hen is going around tweeting: “I lay the BEST eggs. They’re YUGE!!! 2 eggs instead of 1. Not 1, but 2. Bigly eggs. You’ve never seen eggs like this…”
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Reminds me of those cases like when they find your long lost twin inside your skull as a partially formed homunculus.
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Wow, so many pages delving into the matryoshka / babushka heresy. Some say it’s interchangeable – mother? grandmother? feh! Others say “Oh, no, no, no, it means this and only this!” Consensus? For me, this comment from one random site or the other will do:
Matryoshka is a nesting doll system. Babushka is a cute name for a grandma & they don’t have to wear any scarves! Those are totally different things!!! I am Russian 
Please, note: I am talking about the terms within the past century or two. Matryoshka might be an old word for a mother in medeval times…lol
PS the famous Russian Doll Matryoshka is not interesting for us, Russian ppl. We don’t buy those & don’t own them, on average. It is for foreign ppl mostly
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When trying to see what ZeFrank was up to about a month ago, I watched a video by a buzzfeed staffer who was given an ostrich egg and pranked her parents by putting it in their chicken coup. It was funny. I’d share a link, b ut I can’t seem to find the video.
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In fact, we have conflicting accounts from two different farm hands where the egg came from.
Farm Hand one says that they have a really large chicken which just showed up in the coop one day. That enormous chicken actually laid another live chicken which in turn laid the double-egg.
Farm Hand two says that he found the remains of an very large double egg outside the coop and believes the enormous chicken came from that egg.
Both are a little foggy on where and when the egg/chicken came from.
The owner of the farm has stated he isn’t sure which came first, the enormous chicken or the enormous egg.
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Apparently, both eggs are ok to eat.
After being broken for four days? Yum.
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My Dad found an egg like this in the carton he bought at the supermarket. The outer egg was a normal size though. What’s up with antipodean eggs? https://www.instagram.com/p/BXYpneqAxtc/?taken-by=philgreennz
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…when children have children.
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