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The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs, illustrated by Milo Winter in a 1919 edition "The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs" is one of Aesop's Fables, numbered 87 in the Perry Index, a story that also has a number of Eastern analogues. Many other stories contain geese that lay golden eggs, though certain versions change them for hens or other birds ...
The word "goose" is a direct descendant of Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₂éns.In Germanic languages, the root gave Old English gōs with the plural gēs and gandra (becoming Modern English goose, geese, gander, respectively), West Frisian goes, gies and guoske, Dutch: gans, New High German Gans, Gänse, and Ganter, and Old Norse gās and gæslingr, whence English gosling.
A domestic goose is a goose that humans have domesticated and kept for their meat, eggs, or down feathers, or as companion animals. Domestic geese have been derived through selective breeding from the wild greylag goose ( Anser anser domesticus ) and swan goose ( Anser cygnoides domesticus ).
Of lesser commercial importance is goose breeding for eggs, schmaltz, or for the fattened liver . A few specialized breeds have been created for the main purpose of weed control (e.g. the Cotton Patch Goose ), or as guard animals and (in former times) for goose fights (e.g., the Steinbach Fighting Goose and Tula Fighting Goose ).
The name is believed to come from the shape of the number "0" being similar to that of a duck's egg, as in the case of the American slang term "goose-egg" popular in baseball and the tennis term "love", derived – according to one theory – from French l'œuf ("the egg").
The Chinese is an international breed of domestic goose, known by this name in Europe and in North America. Unlike the majority of goose breeds, it belongs to the knob geese, which derive from Anser cygnoides and are characterised by a prominent basal knob on the upper side of the bill. It originates in China, where there are more than twenty ...
‘The goose lays more golden eggs every year’: Warren Buffett explains why capitalism doesn't work for young people today — and the simple way he’d solve it Serah Louis November 27, 2023 at ...
A roasted goose with head and neck A dish of roast goose. The meat, liver and other organs, fat, skin and blood are used culinarily in various cuisines. [1] The meat has a distinctive flavor. [2] Goose eggs are also used culinarily, but unlike chicken eggs are only available seasonally; in the UK goose eggs have a fall-to-early-winter ...