It is a religious workaround for Catholics who are not allowed to eat meat on lent… [but fish is allowed](https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/56205/why-isnt-fish-considered-meat-during-lent)…
I learnt this relatively recently during a discussion of what to have for dinner with my catholic mother in law.. and had to try and understand why she did not think fish was meat… I was gobsmacked..
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