Are there any meatless days left any more? It’s been a looooooong time since I was a practicing Catholic (like since just after elementary school).
When I was a kid (before there was a Taco Bell) we made our tacos at home. We used corn tortillas. First we softened them in little bit of the hot oil, then filled them with the beef mixture and fried until as crispy as we could get them in the skillet. Then we filled them with our choice of lettuce, tomato, cheese, and hot sauce. Onions were fried with the meat. If we were flush, we had avocados.
Yes, if that’s the connotation you’re using. Some people don’t include the flesh of fish. And some people include the flesh of nuts and certain fruits. None of those usages are wrong, just different.
Similar to how shell can include or exclude soft outer coverings.
I’ve eaten some delicious things containing cricket flour (including tortilla chips and believe it or not, chocolate chip cookies). Is an insect an animal?
The trouble is that we use different terms in biological contexts than in culinary contexts. Things like whether or not avocados are fruits, or watermelons are berries.
I just can’t think of what else it would be, even culinarily; a nut? High in protein, and the flavor profile isn’t too far off (for any whole, roasted insects I’ve had anyway).
“Animal” comes from the Latin word animalis, which means “having breath.” (Anima being the word for “breath”). So, there’s a pretty strong argument right there that “animal” shouldn’t cover fish, and potentially, not insects, depending on how lung-centric you want to define “breathing.”
My dogs meat is most likely meat from some animal (it says beef products, I’m not gonna overthink it)
But…I’m certainly not gonna put it on any taco shell(flour or corn) and eat it. Even though it smells pretty aang good.
He eats bugs on occasions. He obviously thinks they’re food/protein/animal.
Even the fire flys he was jumping up trying to catch last evening.
My junior cat (the ex-stray) has been seen catching flies in mid-air (pretty sure they do get eaten), and he once came in from the patio with a dragonfly in his mouth (I took it, determined it had little to no chance of recovery, gave it a mercy flush).