I have eaten fish (and no other meat) on Good Friday my entire life. Will continue to do so until I sleep with the fishes.
I also don't eat Easter eggs until Easter Day and usually avoid hot cross buns until Good Friday.
I'm a stickler for a tradition.
Eta - the reason it is considered that fish isn't flesh/meat is that they are not 'carne' which, in Latin, means warm blooded, land mammal/bird. So, technically, using this definition, fish aren't meat. (Not saying that this is the case by other definitions).
We eat fish at least once a fortnight so it's no hardship for us to have it on Good Friday. DH and my mum were both raised with the tradition, so yes, we eat fish in Good Friday. But if we were travelling, I'd eat whatever - I'd rather not eat seafood from a shop I don't know.
Dad has requested squid, mum wants crumbed prawns, so we will be doing a bit of a mixture of stuff, which isn't as "normal" for us, but they paid, so who cares, right?
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