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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

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

it was pretty liberating x

"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.

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

Always on Fridays, religious tradition from my schooldays, Catholic Convent. Plus of course we love fish

We had a seafood pizza

Does that count?

:-D

Having fish on good friday to rebel. Our church taught and members practised that Jesus' final meal on earth was lamb as the festival he was celebrating has he sat down for his last meal was the passover of the lamb and also that Jesus was about to become the new lamb of God as the old ways were about to be done away with. so for 25 years we had lamb cooked with herbs - like I said I want fish today so am rebelling. The church no longer has any control over me x

We usually have fish on Fridays, no religious significance just a habit carried on since childhood, plus not even having to think about whats for dinner, If its Friday its fish :-)

Not me,,,,,,,dont have a reason to.

LOL...l know one of the chefs at ours,but he was having his break at the time.....LOL

jude

That is good Jude, yes they are quite good with their complaints system aren't they? We have never had a problem with the Moon Under Water in Cheltenham. The Bank in Cheltenham and The regal in Gloucester can sometimes be a bit hit and miss. It all depends on the chef I suppose,

We don't, but we do it fish quite often and my nan had fish every Fri, don't know why. Every day of the week would be like that, as in Mondays...left over from Sun roast, Tues mince etc etc:)...atleast she knew what to buy in each week:)))

AnnG ....Wetherspoons f/chips are gorgeous:) ... but last week my sister and Vic found some of the chips hard, or not cooked and l found my narn bread too hard, it was the last one and had obviously been sitting around!!:(( so this week we have 3 free meals:)

Yehhhh:)

jude

We had smoked haddock today , very nice it was as well and we try to have fresh fish at least once a week.

I did find out this morning that today and tomorrow (Good Friday and the last day of Holy Week, Holy Saturday) are both religious fasting days. You can either have one large meal or two small meals apparently.

Not a bad idea when you think what we will all be eating on Sunday :-D

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

we also have fish on good friday :-D

Well we don't deliberately have fish on Good friday or ordinary Friday. But we do eat fish a lot, in fact had salmon last night and today we had fish and chips in Cheltenham wetherspoons which was their special today, and it was really good for £5.99 each including a 175 glass of wine.


But I was aware I was doing something my mother would never have done - shop on Good Friday. :-(

eyes up the fish in my tank
nope i could not possible

OH & I have this arguement every Good Friday. I´m not Catholic. He is!!
All my life my family has eaten fish on Good Friday & as a child, we had it most Fridays.
Just had Skate wing with new potatoes, peas & home made parsley sauce.....and he´s eaten every mouthful.
Stupid thing is, we eat fish most weeks because we both like it, so why the objection on Good Friday??