I'm not religious so I eat whatever I like on Good Friday, much to my friends disgust.
Do you eat meat on Good Friday?
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I'm not religious so I eat whatever I like on Good Friday, much to my friends disgust.
Do you eat meat on Good Friday?
Yes I deliberately do because it annoys me that everyone I know ( who never attend church) eats fish on Good Friday like it means anything to them
Haha, my sister says the same thing.
I try to, although we eat fish most Fridays. Today, not sure though as we will be travelling, and I am fussy where I eat fish from.
I don't eat meat ever but I do like to point out that fish is actually also meat - it is the flesh of an animal.
Nai, I think it's red meat that shouldn't be eaten on Good Friday, not just meat in general.
I'm not religious, but I don't eat red meat on Good Friday, out of respect for those who are religious. It doesn't mean anything to me, but it does for them, so this is my way of saying I respect their beliefs.
Sorry, I should have put red meat in my title. Can someone change it?
No.
I am not Christian. We have eaten the same meal every Good Friday since I was born, because my mum was Catholic.
I am not Chrisitian. Doesn't mean it hasn't become a tradition in my family, regardless of its religious roots for many.
No, I don't.
Yes, we eat red meat. I didn't for years, as a kid and teenager (because mum was head cook!), even though we are not religious, although my mum claims we're Anglican, but we have never gone to church or followed any other kind of religious things. Now that I am in charge of cooking most of the food in the house, we eat what ever we feel like.
If I were in the presence of someone who follows a religion which requires some sort of special thing (like eating fish on Good Friday) I woudl likely do it, considering it wasn't offensive to me in any way. It's usually a simple thing to do and makes everyone happy!
I eat what ever I please, to my parents disgust.
Ah ok, so just out of curiosity why is it only fish then that's generally eaten and not chicken or other white meat?:
No, I'm not religious but my Mum brought me up to never eat red meat on Good Friday.
So now I continue the tradition with my children, if hubby wanted to eat red meat that would be fine as he was brought up different to me.
We eat whatever we feel like, fish already makes a regular appearance in our diet. We don't make a point of eating one thing over another though, it just so happens we're having prawns.
I don't see it as disrespectful, it's not my religion so eating meat today means nothing to us. Same as we don't fast on days important to other less represented religions in this country.
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Your definition of meat it not the same as the traditional Catholic meaning, which is that meat is mammal or fowl, hence why even 'white-fleshed' animals like chicken are not eaten either.
My DH is Catholic and my boys currently believe in that religion so we only eat fish on Good Friday.
Personally I don't care but I will respect their choice.
We just treat it like a normal day really, we're not religious. We're having red meat tonight because that's what I have in the freezer. Plus, DH doesn't like fish.
As MrsFabuloso said though, if we were eating with someone who was religious and followed this tradition we would have fish insteas out of respect for them.
I remember the story from school, but not well enough to explain it very well. Jesus turned one loaf of bread & one fish into enough to feed hundreds. I think this is why it is fish.:
I always thought it was fish only, no chicken or pork either.
We always grew up eating fish & prawns Good Friday. I don't have an issue with it either way. My kids have never been fish/seafood eaters though, so it depends for us. I try to eat fish though.
My parents owned a takeaway shop for 10 years & Good Friday was our biggest day for burgers. Not fish or veggie burgers. Beef burgers.