when was the egg discovered to eat?!
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Before recorded time.
It is impossible to say. Many predators eat the eggs of other species (eg snakes, lizards, many mammals and some birds). Some primates have been observed eating eggs. It is possible that the ancestors of our species always ate eggs. The only info we have on the diets of early ancestral species comes from the teeth and bones of the skull and there is no specialisation to allow the consumption of eggs (at least not that I'm aware of) so fossils don't tell us when this behaviour began. However I remember reading of evidence of egg consumption by dinosaurs during the cretaceous period. Mammals were around then too so it is possible that some of them were also engaged in this behaviour.
Unless our ancestors were strictly 100% herbivorous (insufficient evidence to suggest this) it is quite likely they ate the occasional egg. It seems like the earliest Hominids (Australopithicus spp.) were opportunistic feeders which is how they transitioned from primarily herbivorous to the later species (the first Hominins) which were able to survive an extensive climate change about 2-3 million years ago by including meat in the diet.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_new…
Eggs laid by females of many different species, including birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish, have probably been eaten by mankind for millennia.
Bird eggs have been valuable foodstuff since prehistory, in both hunting societies and more recent cultures where birds were domesticated. The chicken was probably domesticated for its eggs from jungle fowl native to tropical and subtropical Southeast Asia and India before 7500 BCE. Chickens were brought to Sumer and Egypt by 1500 BCE, and arrived in Greece around 800 BCE, where the quail had been the primary source of eggs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_(food)
More than likely its been a staple in human diet, as foragers/gatherers it makes much more logical sense for the human species to capitalise on stealing eggs than hunting animals with the potential to be killed & the energy that is consumed chasing.
Imitating an egg sucking coon hound, mos' likely.
Brer Rabbit
Someone got locked in a barn for several days and had to cook an egg over a light bulb.