Long Egg

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About

Long Egg refers to a series of image macros based on the Danish production of long eggs for caterers, restaurants and airlines. The idea of long eggs, and the fictional chickens, that produce them has become a popular subject in image macros on Facebook shitposting communities.

Origin

Long eggs are produced by a Danish company Dansk Andels for the service industry, i.e. caterers, restaurants and airlines.^[1] On November 10th, 2013, YouTuber Laura Yuile posted a video about the production of Long Eggs. Within four years, the video (shown below) has received more than 2.9 million views.

One of the earliest examples of "Long Egg" as a meme came from an exchange on Tumblr on June 23rd, 2016. Responding to a picture of a long egg,^[2] Tumblr user Kibokko said, "Wow! What kind of chicken lay that egg?"^[3] Another Tumblr user, dongboss,^[4] then replied with a picture for Burger King's Original Chicken Sandwich with the caption "Long Chicken." The entire exchange (shown below) received more than 258,000 notes as of June 2017.

Spread

On January 22nd, 2017, Instagram user reposted the Tumblr exhange, receiving more than 99,000 likes within six months.^[5]

Later that year, on June 10th, the Facebook group The Content Zone^[6] posted several memes featuring Long Eggs. The posts (examples below) received hundreds of reactions and shares each.^[9]^[10]^[11]

The final image that day, an photo of a digitally stretched chicken above pictures of a long egg in its shell and a long egg chopped up, however, was the most popular. The picture (shown below) was captioned "it takes an awfully long chicken to make a Long Egg." The post received more than 2,500 reactions and 2,900 shares within three days.

The image was later reshared on numerous sites, including the /r/me_irl^[7] subreddit, receiving 1,200 points (97% upvoted), and /r/DankMemes,^[8] where it garnered more than 2,800 points (95% upvoted).