Figs are apparently not to be eaten by Christians. Good excuse to pass on the Fig Newtons.
At least the Jewish one about pigs and shrimp kinda makes sense that they’re scavengers that eat human remains. Pigs were used to clean battlefields of dead bodies.
Those wacky ancient Egyptian were against eating catfish (the African variety that delivers an electrical shock) because they supposedly ate their sun god’s wiener.
Pretty nasty of those catfish to eat the guy’s wiener. Did they at least leave him the bun? :=)
Jews can’t eat Catfish as well because it is a searborne animal that does not have scales. It must have scales in order to be Kosher...
First I ever heard of that one.
Where did you read about the ban on figs? Does that come from the story about Jesus cursing a fig tree because it had no fruit on it? My pastor pointed out that the story happened on a Monday, showing that even the Lord can have a bad day!