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Explanation: As Catholics (and some other Christian denominations) abstain from meat at certain intervals through the year, but not fish, there have been some… curious historical definitions regarding what is and is-not a fish, including from the first bishop appointed to Quebec. One might suggest a bit of motivated thinking, even…
But beavers swim and spend most of their time in the water, so who am I to question the very hungry looking clergyman?
You can’t prove that his goal wasn’t just to ensure a steady supply of fur caps to hide his baldness.
Well, unless you want to define fish as a paraphyletic group, tetrapods are technically fish.
unless you want to define fish as a paraphyletic group
Pretty much everyone does though.
But does God? That is the question here.
God either doesn’t care or is an idiot, given how many stupid tricks those monks played on them.
“If you roll the meat up inside a pasta dough, god can’t see we’re eating meat!”
“Waterfowl? Definitely fish, what else could it be? Same as beavers actually.”
“If you’re sick, meat is fine. Brother Paul, you seem pale. Have some lamb.”
“God made fish and poultry on the same day, making them basically the same.”
If god existed/did give a fuck/whatever, they would thunderstrike them up their asses on a sunny day.
This guy was living in the year 3000
i know what a fish is dude
You can also add capybara to the list, though that’s in South America.
I just heard a coment of a professor for history. She is an expert on everyday culture, like food. For an interview she researched about the rumor, of catholic monks eating beaver during the season of fasting. She said, that she found no evidence of monks eating beaver or something elselike. She supposes it was a spreaded rumor in the times, to make fun of them for beeing bigoted or stupid.
The source is an German History-Podcast from the Federal Public Radio DLF. I think, its quit hard to understand it, if your not really fluent in German. In the End, its just an German History Professor talking about one topic. Its kinda sober(?) ivory tower German :| But if you understand it, I can fully recomend it. One of my favorite podcast.
Aus der Dlf App | Der Rest ist Geschichte | Fastenzeit – Mäßigung und Magenknurren https://share.deutschlandradio.de/dlf-audiothek-audio-teilen.html?audio_id=dira_BA9FDFBE0CC111F17509B883034C2FA0
Beaver was commonly eaten by Canadian settlers of the period, though, so it’s more “Can we still eat beaver on Fridays” than “We’re going to eat beaver now”
Ah yeah ok. It was only a sidenote in this program. She didnt tell for which region she checked the sources. But all the sources she explained were from Europe or nearby (Byzanz fe)
