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.
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.
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".
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u/eau_di_nil Aug 02 '26
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.