The Duplex by Glenn McCoy for March 05, 2010

Have a triple fishburger instead Eno.

Fang should have waited to tell Eno until after the burger was made! SCORE!

Fang is definitely enjoying this! Is that a large, medium or small guilt?

That’s a biggie order of guilt.

Would you like a Pennance with that???

so, if you follow these catholic rules, then if so much as a morsel of ground beef knowingly is swallowed, then he will burn in the fires of hell for all eternity to the same degree a nazi concentration camp commander would.

and if he ate that itty bitty morsel of meat on any friday in the 50’s, he would also burn in hell for eternity …even though they changed that rule years later, it was not retroactive……so they continued to burn forever and ever and ever

but jesus loves us though

Looks like Eno got caught in the lent trap…

well i guess i am going to burn in the firey pit for all time

Don´t worry, there is no meat in that burger.

Popes, priests and preachers make lousy gods.

Cheeseburgers also aren’t kosher, so Fang’s saving Eno from another bullet.

You are what you eat, so for eternity Eno would have been flame broiled.

Nighthawks: what you’re saying is obviously not true, but well, I guess anything goes if you’re an obsessive atheist.

I gave up religion for Lent and never went back. I’m not an obsessive atheist, just a regular atheist … and mortal enemy of all religions!

(My mother was more-or-less Catholic, and I remember her telling me I would go to hell for eating a left-over porkchop one Friday. But I ended up eating it anyway. I guess she didn’t love me after all.)

this must be where folks got the idea that fish aren’t meat, like some”vegetarians” i know

rabbitrose, I’ve never understood that either. Fish aren’t meat? Gimme a break.

It goes back to the old kosher laws. Fish are living creatures, but they’re a different kind of creature, and so the particular rules about consuming “the beasts of the field” didn’t apply. For one thing, you can eat them with dairy products, which you aren’t allowed to do with mammal flesh. That’s why you can put both lox and cream cheese on your bagel at the same time.

I think poultry falls outside of the meat prohibitions as well, but I’m not sure about that. It’s easy enough to look up, though, if you’re so inclined.

Have you ever heard the saying “It’s neither flesh nor fowl” or “neither fish nor fowl”, meaning something that defies categorization? Those are both shortened versions of “neither fish, flesh, nor fowl”, with “flesh” being a parallel to what is considered “meat” in terms of meatless fasts.