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Sharon L. Harrett
afn24101 at afn.org
Wed Jul 2 10:27:52 PDT 1997
RE>>SC - Celtic Feast 7/2/97
> Hare/rabbit was not eaten, don't know why (social/moral taboo >against
eating something perceived as cowardly and dumb?).
]Well, if you're talking about the early Celtic peoples of ]Britian, they
didn't eat rabbit because rabbits didn't exist in ]England much before the
Normans. I believe they were a Norman ]import (again, working from memory, I
believe the source is Ann ]Wilson's Food and Drink in Britian)
no- this was a reference (Ceasar again I think) to the continental Celts, in
the same breath/sentence with "they don't eat fowl"
"Hares, fowl and geese they do not think it lawful to eat... do not grow corn
[generic term for grain] but live on milk and meat..."
I can't find the shellfish reference right off the bat, but this is from "The
Celts" by Frank Delaney
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