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How Far Does Friday Abstinence Go?
« Reply #25 on: January 27, 2016, 08:38:51 AM »
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I too have only fish on Fridays (That is all that is available). But consider this: A snake is the only creature you have to eat on a Friday, so you eat it. It is not seasoned, it does taste mildly of Gallus Gallus Domestcus, but it is tough and hard to chew. Overall it is not pleasant. Especially if not much meat is present on the bones.

This is personal experience and critique from the third sentence down.


Then you don't know how to cook it properly.  Rattlesnake is delicious.  But you have to make a batter and fry it.  Tastes like chicken.

 :ready-to-eat: :ready-to-eat: :ready-to-eat:

How Far Does Friday Abstinence Go?
« Reply #26 on: January 29, 2016, 08:19:04 PM »
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This section from the 1917 Code of Canon Law may help answer the OP's question:

Quote from: Canon 1250
The law of abstinence forbids the eating of flesh meat and of broth made of meat, but does not exclude the use of eggs, milk and the products of milk (namely cheese and butter), and any seasonings of food, even those made from the fat of animals.



If we were to interpret this Canon strictly, would it not also prohibit the use of fish? Fish is also meat...


How Far Does Friday Abstinence Go?
« Reply #27 on: January 29, 2016, 08:37:29 PM »
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I too have only fish on Fridays (That is all that is available). But consider this: A snake is the only creature you have to eat on a Friday, so you eat it. It is not seasoned, it does taste mildly of Gallus Gallus Domestcus, but it is tough and hard to chew. Overall it is not pleasant. Especially if not much meat is present on the bones.

This is personal experience and critique from the third sentence down.


Then you don't know how to cook it properly.  Rattlesnake is delicious.  But you have to make a batter and fry it.  Tastes like chicken.

 :ready-to-eat: :ready-to-eat: :ready-to-eat:



I admit my cooking repertoire exceeds no more than 12. Around here our cold blooded natives are copper heads, chicken snakes (they have a lot of meat), water moccasin, tree frogs, bull frogs - which are in decline thanks to a blue heron. -, catfish, pan fish (perch) and other beings who take much room to list (bugs).

I would try to cook more snakes but kitchen facilities are off limits for such things. If such is to be cooked then it must be done primitively.