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Right? I think it’s a christian thing. There’s gotta be something about eating fish being okay in their bible because the amount of times I heard “fish aren’t m
by iknowstuff 10mo ago
Right? I think it’s a christian thing. There’s gotta be something about eating fish being okay in their bible because the amount of times I heard “fish aren’t meat”
- embedding-shape 10mo agoI think it's just a general apathy in the general population about knowing the difference. "Meat" is pig, cow, horse, rabbit, elephant or whatever, "fish" is fish meat. At a restaurant you could ask if a salad has any meat, they say no, and when it arrives, it has tiny pieces of bacon because "oh but that's almost nothing, certainly not \"meat\"".
- iknowstuff 10mo agoWhaaaat! definitely not in the US haha, at last not the the major cities I guess.
- drekipus 10mo agoChristians are allowed to eat all food. Only Christ is what saves. (Mark 7:19) But the fish / meat / etc is a tradition thing, so it comes from the culture surrounding the Christian, and probably more relating to Jewish history more than anything
- dash2 10mo agoI was told by my teacher as a kid that traditional Catholics used to believe that if you didn't eat fish on Fridays, you'd go to Hell. I wonder if that was true?
- mbg721 10mo agoYou don't have to eat fish, you just have to avoid poultry and red meat. The intent was sacrifice as penance for sins. And in the US and some other countries, it's really only mentioned during Lent (Ash Wednesday to the day before Easter); the rest of the year, it's encouraged to do that or some other form of penance, but everyone ignores it.
- saubeidl 10mo agoIt's some good ol' catholic rules bending. During lent, you weren't supposed to eat meat as part of your fast. However, not eating meat is... not as enjoyable as eating meat, so they basically declared that fish doesn't count as meat so they could eat it without breaking the fast. For similar reasons, they also declared beavers to be fish later on.
- krige 10mo agoExcept that's not how it happened. Lent was someting that took several centuries to occur in any form, and what was allowed and what was prohibited varied greatly for long after. Fish and shellfish from the start were allowed more often than things like butter, oil, or wine.
- shmeeed 10mo agoWhere I'm from, they just hide the meat in dumplings to eat on Fridays. No way God could ever see through that ruse!
- jh00ker 10mo ago"The term [meat] is sometimes used in a more restrictive sense to mean the flesh of mammalian species (pigs, cattle, sheep, goats, etc.) raised and prepared for human consumption, to the exclusion of fish, other seafood, insects, poultry, or other animals." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat#Etymology
- littlestymaar 10mo agoFun fact: in various contexts and languages, rabbits are sometimes considered poultry despite being mammals.
- iknowstuff 10mo agoah of course, everybody knows the reptile chicken is not meat
- OrangeMusic 10mo agoFrance is waaaaay less religious than the US.
- littlestymaar 10mo agoEven with 5 “a” it's still an understatement.
- BrandoElFollito 10mo agoBut it is getting on track. Just not with the previous religion.