Do you eat red meat on Good Friday?

[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