"Rick & Cyndi" > wrote in message
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> "Peter Aitken" > wrote in message
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> : > Rick & Cyndi wrote in message ...
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> : > >: > a local radio station posed the following question:
> : > >: >
> : > >: > What do these three foods have in common only with each
> : > >other?
> : > >: > Supposedly no other foods share this connection.
> : > >: >
> : > >: > The foods are .........popcorn, eggs, and chocolate.
> : > >: >
> : > >: > Your guess is as good as mine, I don't have the answer.
> : > >:
> : > >: Seeds?
> : > >:
> : > >: Gabby
> : > >:
> : > >That was my guess too - they all are derived from seeds.
> : > >
> : >
> : > but *lots* of foods are derived from seeds.
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> :
> : And eggs are not.
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> : Peter Aitken
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> Aren't eggs formed from the "seed" of a chicken, as in a
> child/fetus begins from the "seed" of a woman?
>

I have seen "seed" used in this poetic/biblical way but the word is properly
used to refer to plants only.


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