CATHOLIC CHURCH: No meat on Fridays
PEOPLE: Ok so no eggs for breakfast
CC: No, eggs are ok
P: But eggs are chicken
CC: Not until they hatch
P: So the thing isn't the thing until it's born?
CC: Correct—um, no, wait.

@juglugs

As far as I know, eggs were forbidden, that's why during carnival week, at least here in Catalonia, it's traditional to eat omelettes and even a special kind of sausage that has eggs as an ingredient and is not eaten during the rest of the year. You are not supposed to eat eggs till Easter, that's the reason for all the egg related traditions.

@viktorbir @juglugs so the Church is still inconsistent, only in the opposite way to what the joke says