Don't tell him how Swabian Ravioli are called in the local dialect

Capybaras are classified as fish in Catholic canon law, on the grounds that they spend their lives in water. I’m guessing that a party of conquistadors was on the verge of starvation and got their priest to petition the Vatican to issue a retroactive ruling in their favour.

Huh so apparently it's because of Latin?

Quoting an old comment

Fish isn't considered meat because English and Latin are slightly different languages. For hundreds of years Catholics were not allowed to eat meat on Friday. But the language of the church is Latin, and what Catholics were not allowed to eat is 'carne' which is the flesh of creatures from the land or the sky. So fish was fine.

http://jimmyakin.com/2005/02/fish_fridays.html

I can't believe all this religious people that pull off these loopholes really believe in a god...

If it really exists, it's gonna bust your ass.

You can also cover the meat in pasta dough so god doesn't see it

"Herrgottsbscheisserle"

That's the word you are looking for. We also ate beaver on fridays, they are fish!

For lent, beaver counts as fish

Not eating meat on Fridays is an invention of the church. Jesus never said that.

You rang?

what*

Not "how".

TIL about swabian ravioli. And now I want some.