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This is a very weird story<\/a> about how squid stayed on the menu of Byzantine monks by falling between the cracks of dietary rules.<\/p>\n

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At Constantinople\u2019s Monastery of Stoudios, the kitchen didn\u2019t answer to appetite.<\/p>\n

It answered to the \u201ctypikon\u201d: a manual for ensuring that nothing unexpected happened at mealtimes. Meat: forbidden. Dairy: forbidden. Eggs: forbidden. Fish: feast-day only. Oil: regulated. But squid?<\/p>\n

Squid had eight arms, no bones, and a gift for changing color. Nobody had bothered writing a regulation for that. This wasn\u2019t a loophole born of legal creativity but an oversight rooted in taxonomic confusion. Medieval monks, confronted with a creature that was neither fish nor fowl, gave up and let it pass.<\/p>\n

In a kitchen governed by prohibitions, the safest ingredient was the one that caused the least disturbance. Squid entered not with applause, but with a shrug.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Bonus stuffed squid recipe at the end.<\/p>\n

As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven\u2019t covered.<\/p>\n

Blog moderation policy.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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