This is a bald-faced lie. I attended catholic school from 1-12th grades. Meat on Friday WAS FORBIDDEN. We were TAUGHT by the nuns and priests that it was a MORTAL SIN to eat meat on Friday. Any child with meat in their sandwich on Friday was sent to the Msgr.'s office.
The fact that Roman Catholic freepers continually try to claim this never happened destroys your credibility and infuriates those of us who went to catholic school and LIVED through that era.
It's akin to those who say the moon landing was faked or the Soviets re-writing the "history" books to show Russia in a better light, as though they were "FOOLING" the people who lived through the era .
If you use "meats" in the context it is used in Genesis, which my Bible says is translated the same in the Old and New Testament, it gets very interesting.