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.

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    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.

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      I mean, hating eggs is valid, but as far as the nutritional “gain” goes, if you don’t eat them, you’re going net negative, and would have to eat something else anyways.

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    From purely the practical perspective, no. There aren’t really times where I need that much egg for anything once scaled up to my size.

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    Proportional to size… I’m ~36x the mass of a chicken (2.5/90 kg), so my eggs would be something like 2 .3 kg per egg. If the shell was 8% of the mass, it’s a LOT of egg holy crap.

    Um idk, I guess I would be pretty hungry if I laid a giant egg every day

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    Eat the eggs…? That seems like a waste. I mean, sure, for an occasional snack but I’d wait until the mini-me hatched and have a succulent meal later. If you’re laying one every day and were patient you could feed an army. Which I would have because I’d only eat every other off-spring and the others would be the foundation of the new Imperial order.

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      If you’re letting your mini mes live you could just keep 5 or so trapped and steal their eggs for dinner.

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    If I’m not reproducing I need to re-absorb all that protein somehow. There’s a reason so many mammals eat the afterbirth aka the placenta.

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      You’re bringing me back to seeing my cat give birth as a child. Aghast doesn’t cover it. It was good learning though.

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    I mean chickens (and other egg laying animals) will eat their own eggs to recuperate the energy, so it certainly seems like the smart thing to do :3. I mean an egg of that size every day would really require you to increase intake of both calories and various minerals

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      Putting egg shells into chicken feed is a good way to recycle that calcium. But you gotta crush them first cause chickens are stupid as hell and if they learn that their eggs are edible they’ll just eat them right away.