Why is fish not meat?

It's because Catholics couldn't survive Fridays in Lent otherwise.

I think it stems from the Catholic tradition of giving up meat for lent, but still eating fish. I think it's because back in the day when lent was started, fish was not considered a luxury, but other meats were

She should've said, "Watch your mouth, mate, you might need my help when you're old and gray."
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You're uncle is not very nice person is he?

Fish is meat. But the deeper you go in the ocean idk wtf those things are 😆

I would of said, well what do you call this then ? A vegetable ?

Fish is meat. Who knows why people think otherwise

Fish is meat. The first time I heard someone say it isn't was a vegetarian, and I honestly think they just wanted to cheat and eat some sort of flesh.

I’m not sure. It’s food from an animal’s flesh still. Maybe an older definition limited meat to land animals?

It is meat. Uncle should have gotten off his ass and gotten his own food if he had a preference.

It’s flesh, and a living animal dies, which is meat for all practical purposes. But I know Catholics qualify “meat” in their abstinence laws as coming from animals that live on the land, so they include poultry in that category. So if your family is religious, that might be where [b]they’re[/b] coming from.

Two completely different proteins omfg

Fish is the best meat