Fish question for Fridays in Lent

[RSD]

It’s scrambled into the cactus-chile colorado mixture.

Now with an option like that why would anyone need to eat alligator on Friday? Save your alligator for Sunday dinner with the relatives.

 

[PacoG]

Now with an option like that why would anyone need to eat alligator on Friday? Save your alligator for Sunday dinner with the relatives.

It’s amazingly good, as are most South Texas Tejano dishes.

 

[RSD]

It’s amazingly good, as are most South Texas Tejano dishes.

This is an ambiguous statement. Do you mean the cactus and egg dish, or do you mean the alligator?

Now here is a great feast day plan- alligator and cactus both!

 

[PacoG]

This is an ambiguous statement. Do you mean the cactus and egg dish, or do you mean the alligator?

Now here is a great feast day plan- alligator and cactus both!

Alligators are not indigenous to South Texas. They’d die in the Rio Grande.

 

[RSD]

Alligators are not indigenous to South Texas. They’d die in the Rio Grande.

Doesn’t anyone in South Texas have a swimming pool? Some people in Maryland raise backyard chickens. You could raise backyard alligators. I don’t think you need a river. Please invite us when you are ready to have a cactus and alligator barbecue. Not on a Friday during Lent!

 

[sms]

Thanks very much for the info, everyone! DH says the grilled alligator tasted like roast pork. I wouldn’t eat it, but he liked it. I’ll stick with the cotton candy…

 

[TheresaThoma]

To add into the discussion of weird Lenten foods. I have read in a couple of places that Capybaras (worlds largest rodent)) were once approved as an acceptable meat during Lent*. So maybe if you can’t raise backyard alligators then you could raise Capybaras. Still would need the pool though. The cactus dish sounds very yummy too.

*If anyone can find anything else about this I would love to know. All the sources I could find by doing a quick Google search were second hand sources.

 

[RSD]

To add into the discussion of weird Lenten foods. I have read in a couple of places that Capybaras (worlds largest rodent)) were once approved as an acceptable meat during Lent*. So maybe if you can’t raise backyard alligators then you could raise Capybaras. Still would need the pool though. The cactus dish sounds very yummy too.

*If anyone can find anything else about this I would love to know. All the sources I could find by doing a quick Google search were second hand sources.

I am pretty sure that that is wrong. Capybaras are mammals, and other mammal meat is forbidden. I would guess that that idea was put out by someone who wanted to get rid of capybaras.

 

[puzzleannie]

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.

definitely
want to go into rattlesnake and armadillo, since this is Texas?
yes in some places (notably French speaking Canada in the earliest days) water-dwelling mammals such as muskrats were at times approved lenten fare by the local bishops.

Alligators are not indigenous to South Texas. They’d die in the Rio Grande.

there is a big guy lurking under the boardwalk at the convention center on South Padre Island, don’t know how he got there, but he seems to be doing fine. If alligator shows up on the Friday menu at Louie’s I will get suspicious.

 

[RSD]

definitely
want to go into rattlesnake and armadillo, since this is Texas?
yes in some places (notably French speaking Canada in the earliest days) water-dwelling mammals such as muskrats were at times approved lenten fare by the local bishops.there is a big guy lurking under the boardwalk at the convention center on South Padre Island, don’t know how he got there, but he seems to be doing fine. If alligator shows up on the Friday menu at Louie’s I will get suspicious.

Although I have never eaten muskrat, my impression is that anyone who does is doing sufficient penance that it would be fine during Lent.

 

[puzzleannie]

Although I have never eaten muskrat, my impression is that anyone who does is doing sufficient penance that it would be fine during Lent.

no doubt that was also the bishop’s thinking, it that is not food of the poor I don’t know what is

 

[RSD]

I was talking to a friend about this thread and he asked “If Catholics can eat alligator on Fridays during Lent, is it all right for alligators to eat Catholics on other days?”

 

[puzzleannie]

I was talking to a friend about this thread and he asked “If Catholics can eat alligator on Fridays during Lent, is it all right for alligators to eat Catholics on other days?”

if the alligators are not baptized they are not bound by Catholic canon law.

 

[RSD]

if the alligators are not baptized they are not bound by Catholic canon law.

Thank you. I will tell my friend.

 

[Little_One0307]

if the alligators are not baptized they are not bound by Catholic canon law.

Hah hah hah. That brought a smile to my face. And I am remembering how well alligator tastes. Yummy.

So I could not find the answer in this thread, can one eat alligators during Lent?

Little One0307

 

[MissRose73]

Alligator meat doesn’t sound appealing to me.

I’ll just stick to my fried fish or shrimp for Friday abstinence instead during Lent.

 

[RSD]

Alligator meat doesn’t sound appealing to me.

I’ll just stick to my fried fish or shrimp for Friday abstinence instead during Lent.

Do you think that means that the alligators won’t eat you? Remember, puzzleannie said that alligators, if not baptized, are not bound by canon law, so I am not sure that you can trust them.

 

[Little_One0307]

Do you think that means that the alligators won’t eat you? Remember, puzzleannie said that alligators, if not baptized, are not bound by canon law, so I am not sure that you can trust them.

Can you trust an alligator when he cries tears? I know crocs tears are bogus lol, but are the alligator’s since they are related to the croc family?

 

[RSD]

Can you trust an alligator when he cries tears? I know crocs tears are bogus lol, but are the alligator’s since they are related to the croc family?

I don’t know. Should we start another thread to investigate this question?