Do Catholics need to avoid consuming BBQ sauce on a Lenten Friday?

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Can someone tell me? Carl’s Jr.'s Beyond BBQ Cheeseburger supposedly has no real meat in it.
 
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Back when I was able, and back when at times I could not eat, I simply ate nothing on Fridays. I attribute my continuing existence on earth, at least partially, to that.
Tobit 12:8-9 Prayer is good with fasting and alms more than to lay up treasures of gold: For alms delivereth from death, and the same is that which purgeth away sins, and maketh to find mercy and life everlasting.
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BBQ sauce is not meat.

You can use BBQ sauce on fries, for example, and you would not be violating the rules of abstinence from meat.
 
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We’re a veg*n family, and I often throw BBQ sauce on pizzas and kebabs. Not only is it not meat, but it’s not necessarily even associated with meat.
 
The Beyond products are both meatless and vegan. They violate no Church laws on abstinence.

For what it’s worth, I had the Beyond Sausage breakfast burrito this morning from Hardee’s (Carl Jr’s brand on the East Coast, same thing).

It is THAT GOOD. 💓
 
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Can someone tell me? Carl’s Jr.'s Beyond BBQ Cheeseburger supposedly has no real meat in it.
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Read its ingredient list to find out if it has meat listed.

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https://www.carlsjr.com/beyondmeat

ingredients listed for the burger in the cheeseburger
Water, Pea Protein Isolate, Expeller-Pressed Canola Oil, Refined Coconut Oil, Rice Protein, Mung Bean Protein, Methylcellulose, Potato Starch, Natural Flavors, Yeast Extract, Apple Extract, Salt, Vinegar, Potassium Chloride, Lemon Juice Concentrate, Sunflower Lecithin, Beet Juice Extract (for color), Pomegranate Fruit Powder, Lycopene Color.

now for the sauce, is it your bbq sauce or supplied with the burger
 
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I suspect that we are being pharisaical in this approach.
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Pharisaical to maintain that meat-like products are not meat and do not violate Friday abstinence, or pharisaical to maintain that they are “meat-like” and might violate the spirit, if not the letter, of the law?
 
I sometimes feel that eating fish on a Friday seems to violate the spirit of the law! What is fish if not a form of meat?!

Slightly off topic but, to paraphrase the british comedian Jeremy Hardy, he once explained that vegetarians often still ate fish because it was harder to feel sorry for a creature in a Bacofoil onsie!
 
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