Fish question for Fridays in Lent

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Is alligator considered “fish” and allowed to be eaten on Fridays during Lent? We had our first taste of it the other day while down south, and the question arose.
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It is not considered “fish” but it is permitted. Meat = mammals + fowl. Reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, etc. are permitted.

ewtn.com/faith/lent/fast.htm

P.S. - so, does it really taste like chicken?
 
TheDoctor said:
It is not considered “fish” but it is permitted. Meat = mammals + fowl. Reptiles, amphibians, fish, insects, etc. are permitted.

ewtn.com/faith/lent/fast.htm

P.S. - so, does it really taste like chicken?
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As an expansion of this, remember that no matter what any Protestants may say, no Catholic is ever required to eat fish on Friday during Lent, nor any other time. On Fridays during Lent Catholics may not eat meat, as it says above, mammals or fowl. You may eat fish, reptiles, invertebrates such as insects or lobsters, beans, peanut butter, cotton candy, and a vast multitude of other foods. You may examine your conscience as to which foods most fitly express for you the sacrifice of not eating meat. For myself I rarely eat any seafood on Fri. during Lent because I like it better than most meat dishes. I also don’t eat meat because that is specifically forbidden, but I do not want to substitute something which is a luxury for me.
 
If it tastes like chicken, then it shouldn’t be permitted 😃

I mean really. Does soy-based veggie burgers and hotdogs really provide a fast? When you get to enjoy burgers and hotdogs anyway with the taste and look, you are not really fasting.

I would say alligators are a no-no, Just because they’re not really water based creatures. Everything else that is allowed are those that live in the water.
 
RSD said:
As an expansion of this, remember that no matter what any Protestants may say, no Catholic is ever required to eat fish on Friday during Lent, nor any other time. On Fridays during Lent Catholics may not eat meat, as it says above, mammals or fowl. You may eat fish, reptiles, invertebrates such as insects or lobsters, beans, peanut butter, cotton candy, and a vast multitude of other foods. You may examine your conscience as to which foods most fitly express for you the sacrifice of not eating meat. For myself I rarely eat any seafood on Fri. during Lent because I like it better than most meat dishes. I also don’t eat meat because that is specifically forbidden, but I do not want to substitute something which is a luxury for me.
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Cotton candy. Now I know what to has for dinner tomorrow.
 
You make the chicken joke, but to be honest with you. It kinda does!
Its chicken with a hint of shrimp. haha but very tasty!
 
ConstantineTG said:
If it tastes like chicken, then it shouldn’t be permitted 😃

I mean really. Does soy-based veggie burgers and hotdogs really provide a fast? When you get to enjoy burgers and hotdogs anyway with the taste and look, you are not really fasting.

I would say alligators are a no-no, Just because they’re not really water based creatures. Everything else that is allowed are those that live in the water.
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Actually, no. The rule is not “only water based animals are allowed.” There are many societies where certain insects are part of the diet, and these are permitted. Some people eat turtles, or snakes, and these are permitted. Modern Americans really have very limited ideas about what is edible in nature, which is kind of strange given that modern Americans eat so much that is really REALLY not food at all, such as partially hydrogenated oils. Nobody ever thought of eating cottonseed oil until some enterprising manufacturer put it in a can with a pretty label, putting it on the food shelves, and calling it Crisco.
 
RSD said:
Actually, no. The rule is not “only water based animals are allowed.” There are many societies where certain insects are part of the diet, and these are permitted. Some people eat turtles, or snakes, and these are permitted. Modern Americans really have very limited ideas about what is edible in nature, which is kind of strange given that modern Americans eat so much that is really REALLY not food at all, such as partially hydrogenated oils. Nobody ever thought of eating cottonseed oil until some enterprising manufacturer put it in a can with a pretty label, putting it on the food shelves, and calling it Crisco.
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Well, I’m Asian, I come from the Philippines. The Catholic Church there says we can only eat seafood as meat. Although I personally never go beyond the beef, pork and chicken, many people there eat many other things. But they are, from my knowledge, asked to abstain from those as well. Yes, we do eat snakes and large lizards as well, not necessarily alligators but lizards the size of a cat.
 
ConstantineTG said:
If it tastes like chicken, then it shouldn’t be permitted 😃

I mean really. Does soy-based veggie burgers and hotdogs really provide a fast? When you get to enjoy burgers and hotdogs anyway with the taste and look, you are not really fasting.
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Fortunately, we are not (in general) called to *fast *-- Only to abstain.

tee
 
tee_eff_em said:
Fortunately, we are not (in general) called to *fast *-- Only to abstain.

tee
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Apologies. In the East, Fast means any combination of abstinence and not eating at all. When I said “fast”, I meant “abstain” in the Roman Catholic sense.
 
RSD said:
Actually, no. The rule is not “only water based animals are allowed.” There are many societies where certain insects are part of the diet, and these are permitted. Some people eat turtles, or snakes, and these are permitted. Modern Americans really have very limited ideas about what is edible in nature, which is kind of strange given that modern Americans eat so much that is really REALLY not food at all, such as partially hydrogenated oils. Nobody ever thought of eating cottonseed oil until some enterprising manufacturer put it in a can with a pretty label, putting it on the food shelves, and calling it Crisco.
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I now have two things to eat today. Maybe I can make a sammich of them.
 
ConstantineTG said:
In the East, Fast means any combination of abstinence and not eating at all. When I said “fast”, I meant “abstain” in the Roman Catholic sense.
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Then I am sure you know: To *abstain in the Roman Catholic sense *has only to do with regulating content, not taste.

tee
 
sms said:
Is alligator considered “fish” and allowed to be eaten on Fridays during Lent? We had our first taste of it the other day while down south, and the question arose.
Thanks!
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is it warm blooded? no? then it is permitted, like frog-legs, turtle and other cold blooded animals, the regulation on the only 7 days of the year when abstinence is mandated is no meat of warm-blooded animals. we had it once in Fla. and all I remember is very chewy dark meat. I heard (but maybe they were jerking my chain) that there alligators are eaten as road kill, like deer in some parts of Ohio.

since there are at least 100 active threads on how to wiggle around regulations that apply to such a small part of Christian life, have not all got more pressing spiritual questions we could be addressing with more profit?
 
puzzleannie said:
is it warm blooded? no? then it is permitted, like frog-legs, turtle and other cold blooded animals, the regulation on the only 7 days of the year when abstinence is mandated is no meat of warm-blooded animals. we had it once in Fla. and all I remember is very chewy dark meat. I heard (but maybe they were jerking my chain) that there alligators are eaten as road kill, like deer in some parts of Ohio.

since there are at least 100 active threads on how to wiggle around regulations that apply to such a small part of Christian life, have not all got more pressing spiritual questions we could be addressing with more profit?
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Well, yes, but usually when I am online that is not my effort to address pressing spiritual questions, it is more wiggle time. I for one do not intend to eat alligator during Lent, in fact probably never, but discussing it briefly beats playing solitaire as a relaxing moment.
 
RSD said:
Modern Americans really have very limited ideas about what is edible in nature, which is kind of strange given that modern Americans eat so much that is really REALLY not food at all, such as partially hydrogenated oils. Nobody ever thought of eating cottonseed oil until some enterprising manufacturer put it in a can with a pretty label, putting it on the food shelves, and calling it Crisco.
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We in South Texas have a plate called “Nopalitos”…cactus with egg, shrimp and chile colorado.

I don’t know why I am bringing that up. But it sure is tasty.
 
PacoG said:
We in South Texas have a plate called “Nopalitos”…cactus with egg, shrimp and chile colorado.

I don’t know why I am bringing that up. But it sure is tasty.
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How’s the egg done?

Brings to mind Huevos Rancheros. Mmmm.
 
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