On Saturday, March 6, 2021 at 10:46:44 AM UTC-5, wrote:
> On 3/5/2021 10:07 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> > On 2021-03-05 9:35 a.m., bruce bowser wrote:
> >> On Thursday, March 4, 2021 at 11:06:42 PM UTC-5, Dave Smith wrote:
> >
> >>>> I am NOT a vegetarian. To prove it, I ate close to 1/3 lb Cod
> >>>> yesterday.
> >>>>
> >>>> There's interesting history behind westerners and 'fish isn't meat'.
> >>>> Doesn't carry to other cultures at all.
> >>>
> >>> There is that Roman Catholic about eating fish on Fridays because they
> >>> weren't supposed to eat meat in some sort of demonstration of sacrifice.
> >>
> >> Some protestants also take fish on fridays.
> >>
> >
> > That may be, but I know that in the past there were also lots of
> > Protestants who would not eat fish on Fridays because they viewed it as
> > a Catholic thing.
> >
> <shrug> I eat fish whenever I feel like eating fish. Many years ago I
> picked up a bunch of sausage biscuits to take to the people in my
> department. (They were made from scratch at a small market down the
> street from where I lived; they had a full kitchen setup and baked
> biscuits from scratch, served eggs, bacon, sausage. At lunchtime they
> did fried chicken and potato logs.) This was on a Friday. The manager
> of the department at the time said, "Oh, I'm not supposed to eat meat on
> Friday." She ate one anyway. I guess she was hungry.
>
> My current boss is Jewish. He often has a pork chop for lunch. So much
> for religious dietary restrictions. <shrug>

Details matter. Many Reform Jews feel that how they treat other people
is more important than what they eat, and do not keep Kosher.

The keen student is directed to:
<https://www.thespruceeats.com/do-all-jews-keep-kosher-2121845>

Cindy Hamilton