Connections: Capicola and Capybara and Lent

 I saw this sign on the Jimmy John's store window in downtown Mobile: 

Out of capicola in Mobile, Alabama. November 2021. Credit: Mzuriana.

 

The sign grabbed my attention because I didn't know what capicola was. 

But it reminded my of this: 

 

Capybara at Alameda Park Zoo in Alamogordo, New Mexico. March 2010. Credit: Mzuriana.

 

Capybara. Which were new to me when my mother and I encountered them in Alamogordo, New Mexico, more than 10 years ago in March, when we fled from a midwestern winter that wouldn't let loose its frigid fingers. 

Which led me to learn that one can eat capybara during Lent.

Unlike capicola.