What came first, The Chicken or the Egg? Is the wrong question. It wasnt a Chicken until the first Neanderthal started cooking food and said: Everything I cook tastes just like that two legged feathered thing I ate last year and the second Neanderthal said: You mean that two legged feathered thing that flew up in your face and scared you so bad you had to get another loin-cloth? Yeah said the first Neanderthal, It made me Chit-in my loin-cloth Well, in that case Im calling these two legged feathered things Chicken to honor your discovery