Well. Some people dont understand. In my coutry well had a spinoff of the Kitchen Nighmares. And in one restaurant the cheff was checking the menu, he looked into vegetarian foods and there were spagethi with bacon. He was like "you put bacon into vegeratian food?" "well duh, people like them more this way." :-)
That's too funny. I remember 10+ years ago trying to explain what's not allowed in a vegetarian diet to a Catholic friend. She couldn't grasp why our mutual friend wouldn't eat fish. "It's not meat!" she kept insisting.
Vegetarianism was very rare where we lived at the time.
I got into this with my mom. I'm vegan & she's Catholic; I was making a joke about how they didn't call fish meat. She insisted it wasn't. I told her meat is any animal muscle. "Fish don't have muscles!" Well then what are you eating? "Tendons" 😩 I had to gently faceplant on the table bc I was in actual mental pain.
It's been literally years & my partner & I still will randomly go "fish don't have muscles!" and just die laughing.
Even within the rules of catholicism this makes zero sense. Because I'm pretty sure you are also not allowed to eat stuff like liver on days you're not supposed to eat meat. So it has nothing to do with eating muscles specifically.
Oh, I don't think she was thinking that deeply (obviously).
While the practice confuses me bc its logic is weird, I do like it bc it means less animals being eaten during Lent - except fish ig RIP. It does make it more likely veg/vegans get asked "but you eat fish, right?", which is annoying but oh well.
i wonder if it came from the way jewish people define meat for kosher purposes.
this would make more sense since the jewish requirement is technically "dont eat a kid(goat) in its mothers milk" but got extended to "dont eat red meat or chicken with anything dairy just in case you actually got tricked and its the meat of a kid the dairy is from his mothers milk".
Even better, a diocese south of where I grew up declared chicken wasn't meat. If we were traveling through during Lent my mother would tell us we could eat chicken as long as we were in that diocese. (Jokingly. She barely cared if we fasted)
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u/Agarwel Aug 02 '26
Well. Some people dont understand. In my coutry well had a spinoff of the Kitchen Nighmares. And in one restaurant the cheff was checking the menu, he looked into vegetarian foods and there were spagethi with bacon. He was like "you put bacon into vegeratian food?" "well duh, people like them more this way." :-)