#like genuinely my personal principle is: it's better to make the narrowest claims i can

[aeide-thea]

the real thing for me about that 'is fish meat' poll is that, as ever, i want the terms of the question defined more precisely??

bc for me it's like, well: if we're talking lexicographically, it is in fact animal flesh eaten as food, so yes; if we're talking religiously, i'm not personally religious but judaism and catholicism both hold that fish doesn't count as meat,¹ while jainism holds that it does, so maybe; and if we're talking culinarily, it's a secret third thing, which plays a meat-like role in dishes but tends to sit more lightly in the belly.

and so while i know the poll was asking for people's knee-jerk instinct, my actual personal knee-jerk instinct is in fact to respond: 'in what sense?'

(you can see why i often have trouble filling in forms.)

⸻ ¹ fun (or at least hella wild) fact: the mcdonald's filet-o-fish was apparently introduced to accommodate catholics???? the more you know.