Posted: 3/23/2006 1:46:58 PM EDT
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I told my wife I was craving meat for dinner, not a sandwitch. I end up eating flounder. She starts the argument fish ain't meat. Well is it? |
Hundreds of years ago some fishermen in Europe were having some trouble selling their fish. So they went to the Vatican and convinced (perhaps bribed) the Church/Pope into saying that it's a sin to eat meat on Friday...so the fishermen get a shitload of business every week. At least thats how my dad tells the story. He grew up Catholic, in Wisconsin, where apparently the saying is "I knew I was born on a Thursday because we had a fish fry the next night." |