• rockerface 🇺🇦@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Ah, you fell for one of the classic blunders: expecting your opponent to value logic and consistency in their opinions

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        1 year ago

        I mean, unless people are eating Filipino Balut on a regular basis… I don’t think that the vast majority of eggs are fertilized.

        I guess Balut is a good question and the island / city of Ilo Ilo is predominantly Catholic. So I could ask around lol. But honestly, I avoid that food. It just doesn’t look right…

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            1 year ago

            I mean you say that but I’m pretty sure my mom’s island is the only place in the world where fertilized eggs are eaten on a regular basis and also has a majority Catholic population.

            And I’ve never heard of this situation really coming up. I’d expect the answer to be written in Ilocano as well.

            How and where did you look this up?

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                1 year ago

                Pinay ain’t enough. My Dad is from Luzon and has never had Balut in his life. A lot of shit talking happens between islands.

                Ilocano specifically is what I’d trust as an authority.

                Even then, those crazies on the island of Ilo Ilo really like their Balut. They may ignore the rule in favor of eating their local delicacy.

                I think a Catholic priest from the island of Ilo Ilo would be the authority on the discussion. But yeah, I dont think this is something you’d easily look up from an English-speaking perspective.

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                  1 year ago

                  You know it really doesn’t matter because there is no way anyone eating eggs on the regular hasn’t had a fertilized one at least once. Chickens need to be mated to start producing eggs and quail eggs are often sold fertilized.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “Fish on Lent” is supposed to be an act of humility, as it is historically a peasant dish.

    “Eggs on Lent” is appropriate not because “eggs aren’t chickens until they’re hatched” but because eggs are cheap.

    Of course, with the price of fish diverging heavily from meat in the wake of factory farming, one might rationally argue that the American lental feast should be burgers.

    But this would not be the first time that the dogma of church history outweighs the message they’re supposedly teaching.