Having Unicorns for dinner during Lent

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About 10 years ago, there was a very spirited discussion on CAF regarding acceptable foods during Lent. The thread was lost in the Great Server Crash along with a number of other threads (requiescant in pace). I’m interested to see if there’s been any changes in how people feel about the different subjects: Does cooked Unicorn meat count as Latin defines “meat” or “flesh” (i.e., “carnem”)? Do Mermaids and Mermen count as meat, fish, or cannibalism, or does it depend on which part of the creature you eat?

Inquiring carnivores want to know! (Think of it as the ultimate foodie debate.)
 
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Interesting. Well, the Irish Rovers Unicorn Song not withstanding, many times unicorns are drawn similar to horses. No horsemeat, no unicorn meat.

The seried Red Dwarf not withstanding, mermaids reside in the water so fish. Have at it.

How about Sandworms? Can you have caterpillars? If so, Sandworms ok.
 
Well unicorns are traditionally a land creature that dwells in the forests, so not aquatic. Therefore it’d be meat. But if manage to catch one, let me know.

Merpeople however must be discerned with great care due to their top-half similarities to humans and one must await the pronouncement of The Church on such a matter. As they dwell in the sea a pronouncement will either let us experience their flesh on Lenten Fridays or a first-hand account of The Shape of Water. (Assuming required properties occur.)
 
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We may have to treat merpeople the way Jews treat catfish. Through half of their lives, catfish are treyf – not kosher – because they don’t have scales. They only become kosher to eat after they develop scales.

And Unicorns, while portrayed in modern art as “horses”, are actually chimera, with the appearance of horses but having the hoofs, etc., of goats. So the deeper question becomes, does a chimera, such as a gryphon, have the characteristics to be called “carnem”?

I think we need to get an expert in biblical Latin in to help us.
 
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How about Sandworms? Can you have caterpillars? If so, Sandworms ok.
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We can have worms as well as caterpillars, provided both are otherwise edible. (Images of Caterpillar tractors spring to mind.) Jews are prohibited from eating either of those; however, an exception exists for locust (which we can also eat on days of abstinence). However, there is a split in the Jewish community over whether the insect commonly called a “locust” is the same insect as was described in Scripture. Currently, only the Yemeni Jews claim that what we call locusts are kosher.
 
I presume sasquach and yeti would be flesh and therefore a no go.

Dragons would fall in the category of ok for friday.

How about Nessie? I guess that could be classified as ok for Friday too.
 
As I said, only if they are otherwise edible. Those two fellas look like they’d either be itchy or tickly on the way down to your stomach.
 
Cook em in Wasabi. You’ll never notice the itch, nor get a rash.
 
I’m pretty sure Loch Ness Monster should be acceptable Lenten fare.
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Or closer to home, some delicious Tahoe Tessie

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Well with dragons, they are generally a representation of the devil. Perhaps there we could take guidance from what St. George did with the body of the dragon he slew before encroaching on such a food, not to mention its fiery taste.
 
Haven’t tried eating Komodo Dragon. The Sandy Eggo zoo wouldn’t give me one.
 
I normally don’t have unicorns for dinner during lent, but I do invite them over on Easter Sunday. 😃
 
Unicorn isn’t permitted during Lent,

Dragon is though.

Phoenix isn’t permitted. I can’t cook A Phoenix though, I always burn it over and over.
 
I did not consider that. You’ll want to cook it REALLY thoroughly first though.
 
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Well. I found this article on the “First Things” website which may shed some light on the issue.
Ten Weird, Wonderful Foods for Lent
In there, the author quotes from the USCCB website:

”Salt and freshwater species of fish, amphibians, reptiles, (cold-blooded animals) and shellfish are permitted,” says the website of U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops."

So we could eat Kraken, once it’s released. I’m not sure about dragons, though, as I’m not convinced that the dragons of old were in fact cold-blooded, based on their dietary requirements, But, hey! “Reptiles and cold-blooded animals”! That means you can eat rattlesnake and lawyers!
 
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Hey. Don’t eat lawyers, you’ll likely need to get your stomach pumped.

Sorry Bear.
 
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