Friday, May 23, 2008

What came first a lizard or the chicken?



The Northern Territory president of the Australian Medical Association says he may have accidentally discovered how the potentially deadly salmonella bacteria gets into eggs. Dr Peter Beaumont was cooking when he discovered a tiny dead gecko between the inner shell and the membrane of a chicken egg he cracked open. He believes the discovery is a world first and has handed the egg shell over to health authorities, who will look for the presence of bacteria in the yolk and try to work out how the gecko got into the egg. Dr Beaumont sid he suspects the gecko entered the chicken before it entered the egg.

Well this is completely bizarre. Reminds me of the Simpson episode when Bart kills a mother bird with Nelson's BB gun, and then raises the eggs. Only to find out when the eggs hatch there are actually lizards inside. Skinner tries to kill the lizards because they are outlawed, but Bart lets them escape. The lizards end up eating all the pigeons and Bart becomes a hero.

I can safely say I never got a lizard in my eggs, but growing up I use to live next to a egg farm. We use to get our eggs directly from the farm. Every once in awhile we would crack an egg and find a partly mature chick inside. That was sort-of gross, but finding a lizard is much more worse.

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