FILE--In this Feb. 19, 2013 photo, a food preparer applies sherry to muskrat meat prior to the annual Muskrat Dinner at the Monroe Boat Club in Monroe, Mich. Roman Catholics are obligated to abstain from eating meat on Fridays as part of their Lenten penance. Except in the Detroit area, that is, where the faithful are free to dine on a certain rodent. The Archdiocese of Detroit says "there is a long-standing permission," dating to the region's missionary history in the 1700s, "to permit the consumption of muskrat on days of abstinence, including Fridays of Lent."(AP Photo/Mike Householder, File)
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