S’ EGG PUBLICATION July. 2019
History of Egg Egg as Social Metaphor Egg in Chinese Idiom
WELCOME This magazine was about documentations of the process of experimental on the object, egg, through interviews and secondary research as to find the hidden story of an egg. With each interviews, I actually found it’s useful for me. During the time, when I have no idea on how to start a publication, what’s the information that’s considered appropriate to compile in. Speaking to the people that from different background as they shared their story that related to the eggs are something that I truly value and enjoy. I’ve collected an array of information and ideas, more than what I expected, and some of it are out of my imagination to an egg. Thank you for supporting S’ magazine, I hope you enjoy this story.
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01 / HISTORY OF THE EGG 03 / EGG AS SOCIAL METAPHOR 05 / Twist the egg. 15 / Exam got zero (0) mark. 21 / The weather is so hot, till I can fry the egg on the road. 29 / EGG IN CHINESE IDIOM 31 / 以卵击石 Literally to strike a stone with egg. 33 / 鸡飞蛋打 The chicken has flown the coop and the egg broken. 35 / 危如累卵 Its danger is like that of eggs in a pile. 37 / 覆巢无完卵 When the nest is overturned, no eggs stays unbroken. 39 / 鸡蛋里挑骨头 To look for bones in an egg.
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History of the egg ANCIENT TIMES East Indian history indicates that wild fowl were domesticated as early as 3200B.C. Egyptian and Chinese records show that fowl were laying eggs for man in 1400 B.C. while Europe has had domesticated hens since 600 B.C. There's evidence of native fowl in the Americas prior to Columbus' arrival, it's believed that on his second trip, he carried the first chickens related to those now in egg production.
1920s Living outside faced some problems, mainly because of the weather, predators and the Diseases were also considerd as a problem and selective breeding helped to cultivate healthy flocks. Hatcheries chose the strongest, healthiest birds and passed along favorable genetic factors, such as disease resistance. Special medicines were developed in order to help to combat parasites, such as leg mites. While these advances helped, the hens were laying only about 150 eggs in a year, and had a mortality rate of about 40%.
early 1900s Egg farms were still mostly in backyard systems that supplied families with eggs. Any extra were sold at the local farmers' markets. As selling eggs became profitable, some farms started building up flocks of about 400 hens. The hens roamed around outside with a coop for roosting.
1930s Research on moving hens to indoor living showed many benefits. Expensive and specialized henhouses resulted in much healthier birds. Hens weren't exposed to predators. Also, indoor housing help to prevent parasite infestations and reduce the spread of diseases from outside carriers, including rodents and humans. Better feeding practices also improve hen health and the egg productivity. These changes had reduced hen mortality to 18% a year. But the problems still remained, such as sanitation, waste control and the pecking order.
1940s In late 1940s, some poultry researchers had favorable results with raised wire-floor housing for hens. The separeted wire housing was quickly adopted in California. Sanitation improved, hens and eggs came into contact with waste and waste removal was easier. Feeding become more uniform as the timid hens were now able to eat and drink as much as it requiired. The research on caging proved itsleff, a healthy hen can lay a lot of eggs. Each of the hens in California were ablt to produce about 250 eggs per year, mortality had dropped to 5%. Based on this, more farm across the country started to built new facilities with the cage style of housing.
1960s Early 1960s, technology improved and the development of the sophisticated mechanical equipment were responsible for shift to a larger commercial operations. Improving the hens health through more protective housing and better feeding facilities lead to more eggs. With the increses of automation, labor costs were reduced, therefore able to provide the lower cost to the consumers. also, the improvement of the hen health and equal-opportunities feeding made the nutrient of eggs became more uniform.
present 1950s The caging system was developing into more automation, which needed to handle the increased output of eggs from the hens. Conveyor belts were added to the hens house to collect the eggs as soon as they were laid, and carry the eggs to the washers.
About 60% of the eggs produced are used by consumers, 9% are used by foodservice industries. The rest of it are turned into egg products, which are mostly used by foodservice operators, restaurants, and food manufacturers to make foods, such as mayonnaise or cakes.
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egg as social metaphor " Twist the egg. " " Exam got zero (0) mark. " " the weather is so hot, till i can fry the egg on the road. "
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egg as social metaphor
" Twist the egg. "
egg as social metaphor
" Twist the egg ! "
The words " Twist the egg ! ", twist represented the action of turn aound the handle of gumball machine; egg represented capsule inside the gumball machine, as it shape like an egg, so the capsule commanly been named as “egg�.
Gumball machine is a vending machine that dipenses gumballs, usually cost small fee. The very first gumball machine was founded in 1934, by the manufacturer, Ford Gum and Machine Company of Akron, New York. In general, a gumball machine made by a clear sphere (originally glass, now most often plastic) which is filled with colorful gumballs (capsules), placed on the top of a metal base. It has a metal top on the top of it with a keyhole, so that the top can be removed and put in the gumballs. The coin is inserted into the base and a handle is turned around clockwise 360 degrees, the gumball will then come out.
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egg as social metaphor
" Twist the egg. "
INTERVIEW “This is part of my childhood memories! I remember, there’s a traditional grocery store nearby my home, and inside the grocery store, there are around 5 to 6 gumball machines. I was really excited when looking at all these gumball machines. That time, I used 20 cents to ‘twist an egg’, what makes me really excited is the toy inside the capsule, I like to collect all those toys. Sometimes, I may feel dissapointed as the toys inside may broken, or part of the toys were missing, so it affected me that I couldn’t assemble and install the toys. I always go out without inform my mother, as she not allow me to spend too much on ‘twist the egg’ (as I really spend much on these), so everytime when I go out, spent and got all these toys, I will try my best to ‘transfer’ all of them into my room.”
Saw Jun Kai, student Bachelor Computer Science (Hons) INTI International University.
Part of the toys collection, by Jun Kai.
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egg as social metaphor
" Twist the egg. "
Tradisional grocery store, located at Batang Kali, Selangor.
Playing on the gumball machine.
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egg as social metaphor
" Twist the egg. "
Toys collected.
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egg as social metaphor
" Twist the egg. "
Gumball machines, located at Times Bookstore Pavilion, Kuala Lumpur.
Token for gumball machine.
Toy collected.
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egg as social metaphor
" exam got zero (0) mark. "
egg as social metaphor
" exam got zero (0) mark. "
The zero (0) shaped like an egg, so the egg had been used to describe the mark in result or grades. Exam got zero (0) mark, always been used by Asian parents while they scold their childrens just to make sure they won’t get bad result or grades in their exam.
Asian parents are generally different in the way they bring up their childrens, compared to the European or Western parents. Asian parents focus too much on the exam results and the grades of their childrens, good academic result is everything. Since young, children are taught that they must listen and be obedient, so that childrens do not dare to voice out their concerns. Instead of imposing punishment, Western parents are more keen to encourage their childrens, while Asian parents think that the only effective way a child will learn is if he/she is punished for his/her mistakes. Asian parents always tend to plan out their children’s development plan, and children should pursue career that parents think that is beneficial. One thing for sure, Asian parents really like to compare, they expecting their childrens to be better than peers’, even if their childrens get good grades, they are most likely going to compare with their peer’s children’s grades.
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egg as social metaphor
" exam got zero (0) mark. "
INTERVIEW As I’m the elderly among my siblings, my parent had high expectation to me. The time when I was studying at primary school, I really envy my friends, some of them can watch television, playing outside, cycling... but what I had did was attend extra tuitions, tuitions and tuitions. Those kind of study life make me feel so stress and I’ve no time for entertainment activities. During that time, my parent always advised, and even scold me just to make sure that I can focus on my study, I even been prohibited to watch television. “If you don’t study well, you are going to get zero mark!”, which is one of the most significant words that my parent scold on me. I never blame my parent (last time when I was young, yes I really hate about it), but for now, I know they do all that just to make sure that I can have good results, which may useful for my future.
We Ern Jee, student UK Transfer Degree, Law Brickfields Asia College (BAC).
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egg as social metaphor
" exam got zero (0) mark. "
You have to study well, focus more on your homework... If not, YOu will get " 0 " mark in your exam ! Pay Attention...
BUT...I want
...
A short comic that show how the egg used to describe the zero (0) mark.
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egg as social metaphor
" the weather is so hot, till i can fry the egg on the road. "
egg as social metaphor
" the weather is so hot, till i can fry the egg on the road "
" The weather is so hot, till I can fry the egg on the road. " used to descibes the hot weather.
Malaysia has a tropical climate which categorised as equatorial, being hot and humid throughout the year. Temperatures range from 21ºC to 32ºC. In daily life, instead of ‘fry the egg on the road’, there’re few ‘talks’ to describes hot weather, such as “the weather is damn hot, I ‘beh tahan’[1] arghhhhh!” and “Walao [2] very hot eh!”
[1] beh tahan : can’t stand / unbearable / unable to endure, is a combination of Hokkien and Malay languages. [2] walao : modal particle, originally from Malay language.
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egg as social metaphor
" the weather is so hot, till i can fry the egg on the road. "
INTERVIEW I consider myself as a people that active, talkative, and keen to manage and join event, I always have to go around for the event set up, sometimes in charged of public relations, which means I have always go here and there, just to confirm everything are well prepared and the event can be conducted smoothly. Going here and there make me sweaty and tiring. During the time while having discussions with my team, I do always say ‘‘ the weather is so hot, till I can fry the egg on the road.’’ Well, this sentence considered as one of my catchphrase that I always talk about it. First time when I saying this catchphrase, my friends were looking at me and their expressions had told me ‘‘why am I say something so awkward?” I have no idea how I ‘create’ this catchphrase, but I just feel like it’s quite funny, and somehow related to the hot weather.
Lim Yee Huei, student BSc (Hons) Psychology Sunway University.
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egg as social metaphor
" the weather is so hot, till i can fry the egg on the road. "
Experiment of “fry an egg on the road�.
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egg as social metaphor
" the weather is so hot, till i can fry the egg on the road. "
The “appearance� of egg, after 1 hour.
There was an ant on it!
The appearance of egg, after 2 hours.
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egg in Chinese idiom 以卵击石 Literally to strike a stone with egg. 鸡飞蛋打 The chicken has flown the coop and the egg broken. 危如累卵 Its danger is like that of eggs in a pile. 覆巢无完卵 When the nest is overturned, no eggs stays unbroken. 鸡蛋里挑骨头 To look for bones in an egg.
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egg in chinese idiom
以卵击石
egg in chinese idiom
以卵击石 shí
Literally to strike a stone with egg ; to attempt impossible. To invite disaster by overreaching oneself.
以
: to use / according to / so as to / by means of / in order to / by / with
卵 : egg / ovum / spawn 击
: to hit / to strike / to break
石 shí : stone
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egg in chinese idiom
鸡飞蛋打
egg in chinese idiom
鸡飞蛋打 dàn
The chicken has flown the coop and the eggs are broken. A dead loss.
鸡
: fowl / chicken
飞 : to fly 蛋 dàn : egg / ovum / spawn 打 : to beat / to strike / to hit / to break / to fight / to shoot
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egg in chinese idiom
危如累卵
egg in chinese idiom
危如累卵 rú
It’s danger is like that of eggs in a pile. Extremely precarious.
危
: danger / critical
如 : as / such as / as if rú 累
: to pile up / heap up
卵 : egg / oval / spawn
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egg in chinese idiom
覆巢无完卵
egg in chinese idiom
覆巢无完卵 fù cháo wú wán
When the nest is overturned, no eggs stay unbroken. In a great disaster no one can escape unscathed.
覆 巢 : nest overturned fù cháo 无 : no / not / none / un- / -less wú 完 : complete / entire / whole wán 卵 : egg / ovum / spawn
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egg in chinese idiom
鸡蛋里挑骨头
egg in chinese idiom
鸡蛋里挑骨头 dàn li
tou
To look for bones in an egg. To find fault ; to nitpick.
鸡
: fowl / chicken
蛋 : egg / ovum / spawn dàn 里 li
: inside / internal / interior
挑
: to choose / to pick / to nitpick
骨 头 : bone tou
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