Feasting Fin De Siècle: At A Dinner Of Atheists (Les Diaboliques) - Barbey D'Aurevilly

They wickedly joined together fish and meat, in order that the rule of abstinence and mortification prescribed by the Church might be better transgressed... It was an extra spice to their food to feast on a fast-day and add a fast - a real cardinal's fast - to their choice of dishes. They were like that Neopolitan who said that an ice was delicious, but it would be much better if it were a sin to eat it.