Gulliver's Travels

The "Brundrecal" states only that eggs should be cracked at the "convenient end," so it looks like it's an individual decision for each person.

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why do you ask?

Maybe she's about to make eggs.

Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels was a political, social and religious satire. He was an ordained minister of the Church of England in Ireland. In the story, Gulliver comes to Lilliput, a land inhabited by people who were miniscule by his standards, being no taller than the length of his thumb. They were divided into two kingdoms, who warred with one another, and who were doctrinally divided by their religiously devout belief concerning which end of a soft-boiled egg it was "convenient" to open in order to eat it. It was generally thought at the time that Swift wrote that he was lampooning the insignificant doctrinal differences between Catholics (Big-endians) and Protestants (Little-endians).

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