makkdom
makkdom t1_iypnhek wrote
Reply to comment by ArkGamer in [OC] Number of Union Army Units/Companies during the American Civil War. by BLAZENIOSZ
Mark Twain (then plain Samuel Clemens) fought for the Confederacy for two weeks before quitting and heading to Nevada along with his older brother who was appointed to a position in the territorial government there. He wrote a (mostly fictional) account of his wartime experience in a sketch entitle "The Private History of a Campaign That Failed."
makkdom t1_j6lnlun wrote
Reply to comment by Phantom_Ganon in ELI5: when people give up red meat for lent, why do they always eat fish instead? Aren't chicken and turkey white meats too? by Inanimatepony
It is not the eggs that are the issue. Pancakes would have been cooked and eaten on Tuesday to use up the animal fat that greased the griddle. The fat had to be gone by Ash Wednesday or it would spoil during lent.