# Another chicken and egg question.  Do eggs taste like chicken to you?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 3, 2010, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-chicken-and-egg-question-do-eggs-taste-like-chicken-to-you/531193 "2010-03-03T22:28:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-chicken-and-egg-question-do-eggs-taste-like-chicken-to-you/531193/21 "2010-03-04T01:00:38Z")

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Not even slightly. I rarely eat eggs, but chicken is one of my favourite foods.

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**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-chicken-and-egg-question-do-eggs-taste-like-chicken-to-you/531193/22 "2010-03-04T01:04:03Z")

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Nope, but I have to ask the obligatory question, who has tried [balut](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balut_%28egg%29)? I hear it tastes like a cross between chicken and egg.

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**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-chicken-and-egg-question-do-eggs-taste-like-chicken-to-you/531193/23 "2010-03-04T05:51:13Z")

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Wow, I never before knew that so many people noticed a similarity. Who would have thought?

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**Author:** ![ToeJam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dfb087/32.png) [@ToeJam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ToeJam)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-chicken-and-egg-question-do-eggs-taste-like-chicken-to-you/531193/24 "2010-03-04T06:04:43Z")

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Chalk another up in the No column for me.  
This would have made a fun poll though…

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**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 8:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-chicken-and-egg-question-do-eggs-taste-like-chicken-to-you/531193/25 "2010-03-04T08:41:58Z")

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> [@Red\_Stilettos](#):
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> Yes, they are assembled in the oviduct, but it’s not like it just packages whatever proteins happen to be around. The contents are made expressly for being packaged in an egg. They have no other role in the chicken.

Whereabouts in the chicken are they manufactured though?

It occurs to me that maybe I’m unusual in the way that I consume chicken. I quite often eat plain roasted (that is, oven-baked) whole chicken. I know I wouldn’t be able to taste (what I perceive to be) the similarity in chicken served in any kind of gravy sauce, batter, coating etc.

I primarily notice it if I’m eating the greasy dark meat of an oven-baked bird - usually while I’m picking over a carcass to separate bones (for stock) from leftover meat, and snaffling a bit as I go.

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