Timeline for Etymology of 'teaching grandma to suck eggs'?

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S Sep 25, 2021 at 18:40	history	suggested	Joachim	CC BY-SA 4.0	correction
Sep 25, 2021 at 7:42	review	Suggested edits
S Sep 25, 2021 at 18:40
Jun 15, 2020 at 7:40	history	edited	CommunityBot		Commonmark migration
Mar 24, 2017 at 18:33	comment	added	1006a		"suck out the egg contents by piercing the egg at both ends and then sucking on one of the ends." I wonder if this is part of why this particular procedure made it into the idiom. It's not always intuitive that an air in-flow hole is helpful in extracting contents from a sealed container (e.g. when pouring something out of a can). I can sort of picture the conversation: "Granny, don't forget you need to poke a hole at both ends of the egg." "I know that! Think I don't know that? I've been sucking eggs for sixty years, think I don't know you need two holes? Young whippersnapper..."
Jun 26, 2011 at 9:24	vote	accept	Jez
Jun 25, 2011 at 23:36	history	edited	Callithumpian	CC BY-SA 3.0	added egg-sucking bit
Jun 25, 2011 at 23:23	history	edited	Callithumpian	CC BY-SA 3.0	added 44 characters in body
Jun 25, 2011 at 22:20	history	answered	Callithumpian	CC BY-SA 3.0