DETROIT (AP) — Detroit-area Roman Catholics have one more dining option during Lent than most other followers of the faith. A long-standing permission allows local Catholics to eat muskrat — a furry, marsh-dwelling rodent native to the area — “on days of abstinence, including Fridays of Lent,” according to the Archdiocese of Detroit. Laboe said some people describe it as tasting like duck, but he disagrees: “I think muskrat tastes like muskrat, and I don’t think I can compare it to anything else.”Muskrats eat mostly plants and vegetation. “The people that ate muskrat many, many years ago were poor, and they didn’t have much,” he said. “And so, in terms of people that do eat it, it does remind us, at least it reminds me, of the poor.”___

Source: Huffington Post April 16, 2019 19:30 UTC