Cackle fruit is whimsical slang for a chicken's egg, playing on the sound a hen makes (cackling) and treating eggs as the 'fruit' produced by hens. The term has nautical and rural origins, where colourful food slang was common, and survives today largely in food writing, rustic-themed menus, and deliberate retro or folksy contexts. It is always used with a knowing, playful register.
The farmhouse breakfast menu listed eggs simply as 'cackle fruit,' which got a smile out of every table.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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(slang) A chicken's egg.
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