SC - beavers

[LrdRas at aol.com]

A thought....

The Catholic faith during the middle ages did NOT classify either beavers, 
barnacle geese or sea mammals as fish. The 'guidelines' merely stated that 
animals from the sea were considered as appropriate food for meatless days. 
There is no indication that they were thought of as fish that I am aware of. 
The key requirement was creatures living in water. The animal kingdom that 
water creatures belonged to was irrelevant. It is by this logic that things 
like fetal or new born animals such as fetal or newborn rabbits were also 
'kosher' for meatless days.

BTW, new born animals have virtually no taste while the flavor of fetal 
(e.g., unborn) animals can best be described as having the slightest hint of 
liver flavor to them. All in all, the service of such animals would be most 
appreciated by feasters that have extremely sensitive palates.

Ras