Quote Originally Posted by astral276 View Post
Apparently calling someone a 'Good Egg' is also a racist term....

It is a form of madness, and says more about the racist views of those making the connections than those using the terms in all innocence.
It simply goes to show that education has gone to the dogs! The term "good egg" is much older than rhyming slang and comes from the old Latin tag "Mala gallina, malum ovum" ( A bad hen, a bad egg). Obviously it impies the opposite as well.

There was also the famous "Punch" cartoon about the Curate's egg:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curate%27s_egg...If you look at this, do read the antithesis as well!