Source: Atlas Obscura
On Fridays during Lent in Michigan’s Downriver region, families gather in church halls for dinners where the main course is a “four-legged fish.” The tradition of dining on muskrat, a wetlands-dwelling mammal, is part of a long tradition of eating semi-aquatic rodents on Catholic fasting days when fish is the only permissible protein.
Though muskrat dinners are fading into obscurity—due to a decrease in both hunting and interest from younger generations—they once served an important role in community building in towns along the southern stretch of the Detroit River.…
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