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[PrimeMcFly]

You're dead on about there being different botanical and culinary definitions, but I have never heard fish or poultry being excused as being meat. They are just different types of meat.

[valleyer → PrimeMcFly]

I agree it's a weird distinction, but it's by no means an uncommon one. Christians in the US, for example, often consider fish not to be meat.

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/good-question-why-isn...

[PrimeMcFly → valleyer]

In a religious context, that doesn't surprise me, but that's about the only context I think it would hold true for.