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Bet you feel liberated Fooite.....no constraints of inbred fear....

"I should maybe know this but why do Catholics eat no meat on Fridays?"

In the 1960s Catholics were told that it was okay to eat meat on a Friday: ie http://www.osv.com/tabid/7621/itemid/8386/A-return-to-meatless-Fridays.aspx




We had fishy pasta this evening, and very nice it was, too.

it was pretty liberating x

we try to always have fresh fish on a Saturday .................. usually sole, trout or Wild Pacific Sockeye salmon

............. reason for Saturday being that we almost always eat out on a Friday night, preferably Japanese or the local bistro


Fish pie is for another night in the week ................ we usually have that once or twice a month.


But, we have always had fresh fish on Good Friday ever since we got married almost 46 years ago ............ and neither of us is Catholic, or raised in a Catholic tradition.


Of course, it was never solely a Catholic tradition ..........

........ all good Christians ate fish on Good Friday, gave up something for Lent, and tried to eat fish every Friday. That continued until into the 20th century



It's just that we grew up with the habit, as was almost everyone whose parents were born around 1900 and thus they had been raised by Victorian parents!


I can well remember that one of the local fish shops in my home town in Lancashire opened on Good Friday morning, from about 9 until noon-ish. They sold really fresh fish that day, that had been brought in from the coast overnight. My parents would make a point of walking to the shop (about 30 minutes away) to buy fish for "dinner" (ie, what we now call lunch)


we've had to make a special effort this Good Friday ............


........ our daughter came to visit from the other side of Canada to see her very ill godfather, and took our car on Thursday, won't be back until Sunday.

I didn't want to buy fish on Wednesday for today, and our local grocery store is being redeveloped ................ so OH had to take the bus to the next closest one to buy the fish.


OH is currently making sole baked with a tomato and onion "sauce". :-D

I wont eat meat on good friday and we had fresh fish for tea ,as much of smell of bacon drove me nuts yesterday morning I stuck with my toast :-D