They’d be like chicken eggs but proportional to your size. It just happens regardless of if you’re planning to eat them or not. Taste would be very similar to chicken eggs.

  • hansolo@lemmy.today
    10·
    6 days ago

    No.

    Shit no. Chickens that peck at their own eggs have major problems, either psychological/stress or nutritional.

    Maybe ask a woman what her period tastes like and after you get kicked in the nuts so hard they bounce off the roof of your mouth, you’ll know the flavor of reproductive material one way or another.

  • Lovable Sidekick@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    7 days ago

    It’s hard to picture, as a real human who grew up eating eggs and not laying them. Since the human race has always faced the threat of starvation, I expect the cultural norm would have developed a long time ago that eating your own eggs is perfectly natural and normal. A taboo against eating them would be a serious disadvantage during a famine. We would grow up with many cultural influences about the eggs. Religious texts like the bible would no doubt make moral pronouncements many people would follow without question. It might even be a political issue.

  • wittymcusername@lemmy.zip
    5·
    6 days ago

    I scrolled through the thread real quick and saw this compared to both cum and breast milk. But that’s not what this is. Eggs are what’s left over after the chicken doesn’t get pregnant. They are effectively a menstrual product. So instead of semen or milk, you should be asking yourself if you consume period blood.

    • Ageroth@reddthat.com
      2·
      6 days ago

      Hmm… so the white is like the amniotic fluid and the yolk is a placenta…
      Honestly if it came out as a nicely packaged chunk of nutrient dense meat in protein water I could see a world where they were a delicacy

      • wittymcusername@lemmy.zip
        1·
        6 days ago

        I mean, it wouldn’t surprise me if some people said yes. There are people/cultures that eat the placenta after a woman gives birth. It’s not far-fetched.

        Also, I’d argue that the shell is more like the placenta. Yes to the egg white being amniotic fluid. The yolk is what turns into a chicken.

  • FatVegan@leminal.space
    4·
    6 days ago

    People drink milk that they have to steal from another species but if you tell someone that you tried breast milk from a human, you are called weird or gross. I personally wouldn’t try it, but i find cow or whatever milk so much worse.

  • HubertManne@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    6 days ago

    Would rather stop the process. Your going to use more energy and resources creating them than you get back eathing them. You can’t sustain chickens on their eggs.

    • GalacticGrapefruit@lemmy.world
      1·
      6 days ago

      Exactly. Conservation of energy being a thing, this would metabolically be a net loss for me. Even if I ate my own egg every morning, I would still need a consistent source of calcium, magnesium, and phosphorous to keep my bones from turning into styrofoam.