“Mom, I’ve lost my voice”
“That’s because you’ve been screaming for half an hour”
“I was watching the clock it was only 17 minutes”
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“What’s more round, a Scotch egg or a bagel?”
After a few minutes of discussion “You should ask a mathematician, what is topology good for otherwise?”
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I vote for a scotch egg being more round, because it looks circular from any direction.
But the bagel has a round hole in the center, a round whatever that is when you cut it and it is round itself and generally quite round. The question is: does the egg fit in the whole inside the bagel?
Depends on how big is the bagel… and the egg. 
Which reminds me: quail eggs, they were delicious that way.
We could always get a stronger acid…
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A scotch egg is a sphere
A bagel is a torus.
Clearly a scotch egg is both rounder and flatter than a bagel
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I thought of a donut as a very lazy cylinder…
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Wouldn’t a scotch egg be an ellipsoid, like Earth??
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I think Earth is an ‘oblate spheroid’? That’s what I always say, anyway. It’s my one thing that makes me sound clever. Don’t take it from me.
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Whereas an egg, like a rugby ball, is more prolate, at least at the pointy end.
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I like to think all of the last 5 comments were said independently of each other
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So I searched this and ended up here
A smash B (for spaces with a specified base point) is A x B / (A x {pt} U {pt} x B). You take the direct product than any possible choice for base point you squish down to a point. It’s used all the time in homotopy theory.
I’m out
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“Put down the car and step away from the elephant!”
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Now I want an egg like a rugby ball.
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This isn’t so much heard as misheard by my dictation software, which interpreted my comment of ‘liver cells containing lipofuscin’ as ‘liver cells containing leper’s foreskin’.
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Ostrich eggs are the closest. I heard somewhere the are the biggest cell in the world, but I could be wrong.
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What, thrown at you backwards?
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No, that would be The Village.