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Don't tell him how Swabian Ravioli are called in the local dialect (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by merari42@lemmy.world to c/microblogmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago (2 children)

For lent, beaver counts as fish

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 34 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Thats the pickup line I use on devout catholics.

[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Ah yes, the beaver reacharound

Save the poophole loophole for 2nd date

[–] DaDragon@kbin.social 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Fish: live in water

Beavers: also live in water

checks out

[–] Sythas@feddit.de 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some monks also drowned their pigs. They lived in the water until they died, so they are fish

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I tried to look this up, but ended up empty-handed. Could you point me in the right direction?

[–] Sythas@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I only found german sources (tabloids, blogs and something from a catholic site), but I don't know how serious they are. Here the link of the Catholic site:

https://www.katholisch.de/artikel/12474-funf-tricks-zur-fastenzeit

Apparently, they also named pigs "fish", hence they are then fish too.

[–] yannic@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

Thanks. The article title "tricks for Lent" points to the non-serious nature of it. Plus, it uses the phrase "According to legend" several times and doesn't even mention the particular monestaries, nor the specific monks involved. I think it's just meant to be a humorous jab at legalism.

Typically, if practices get so bad that they have to be forbidden by an administrative authority, then you would have some written document forbidding the practice. Although that would acknowledge it wasn't legitimate to begin with, it would at least suggest the histriocity of it.

[–] T00l_shed@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Some birds live in water... even though they are creatures of the sky...so is duck ok for lent?