Widdershins Smith 🐘Mar 5, 2023
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.
Show threadEllenJul 21, 2023
@juglugs Eggs are not chicken if you eat them, because then they're not fertilized.
Show threadWiddershins Smith 🐘Jul 21, 2023

@isisevrinen

How do you know? Ok, today in a store they're not likely to be fertilized, but when the rule was made nobody knew if they were...

Show threadEllenJul 21, 2023
@juglugs Because the chicken will not sit on it. People knew back then too. If it's fertilized, the chicken will sit on it until it hatches. Chicken lay eggs all the time, just not all are fertilized.
Show threadWiddershins Smith 🐘

@isisevrinen

That's just not true (like religion, I guess?).
Chickens sit on unfertilised eggs just like any other brooding bird

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Show threadHollisJul 25, 2023
@juglugs Thank you. Anyone who has had chickens (like me) knows this!