Do you eat red meat on Good Friday?

[Nai]

Nai, I think it's red meat that shouldn't be eaten on Good Friday, not just meat in general.
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Ah ok, so just out of curiosity why is it only fish then that's generally eaten and not chicken or other white meat?

[LimeSlice]

Ah ok, so just out of curiosity why is it only fish then that's generally eaten and not chicken or other white meat?

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.

[~clover~]

Ah ok, so just out of curiosity why is it only fish then that's generally eaten and not chicken or other white meat?

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.

[Astrid]

e eat whatever we feel like. I grew up with fish on Fridays. Mum was raised a Catholic so still clung to some of the traditions.

I have been told off for it. Was eating a venison burger from a food van(who must have had no issue with serving red meat on Good Friday). The people telling me off were not the type to live by Christian ideals in their every day life. I found it so hypocritical.


There is a lot more to eating fish than Good Friday. In Elizabethian Times many laws were passed to do with eating fish. More to do with raising money for the navy than religion.

[Livinthedream]

I have eaten red meat in the past, DS birthday falls around Easter and if we have his party on food Friday then we cater for all types of meat eaters.
But, some years, like today, I use it as an excuse to splurge on some really nice fish and shellfish.

We did have twiggy omelettes for brekky tho


Ps, it's amazing how many people will tell you they must only eat fish for dinner on Good Friday, but are happy to start the day with bacon and eggs.
I pulled a few of my older relatives up for this 2 years ago when they tried to tell me DS shouldn't have been eating sausages on GF night.

[blessedatlast]

I don't normally, just because it's an awesome excuse to pig out on seafood! I did yesterday though.. I'm not religious so it makes no difference to me.

[Trillian]

I never used to until I met DH and it was a big thing to do in his family. Even though it's probably a traditional Catholic thing to do (Dh's family are Methodist) I think it's still adopted by most Christian religions in some form as a throwback to fasting rituals during Lent. And is the case with most religious practices, it's been bastardised to the point where no one really knows why certain things are *done*, they just are.

So we do it every year, if for no other reason than it's the only time we can get guaranteed fresh seafood out here.

[Bumperstump Cummerbund]

I don't generally because I don't like fish. I may have accidentally in the past though, if we've had fish and chips for dinner (apparently I only like fish when it's battered and deep fried). We're considered a Christian religion, but our 'easter' generally falls earlier than everyone elses - this year it was on Monday night, so we had our Memorial celebration then. I pretty much forget about the fish on Friday thing unless someone on my FB or Twitter says something.

This year I did look it up though, the reasoning behind it, and found it quite interesting! But just because we don't do it doesn't mean that I would deliberately point out that I'm eating red meat on Good Friday. Gots to be nice to people