Fish on Good Friday - What are you having??

[Jennifer13]

Had fish and chips with prawn cutlets and scallops for lunch. Not sure what we're doing for dinner.

TBH I'm religious but nowhere in the Bible is it stated you need to eat seafood on the day Jesus died. So I consider it a church tradition, not a Christian one. So we're flexible with it.

[nothing2lose]

Me too Jen.
It is purely for tradition and symbolism here.

[LimeSlice]

Out of habit we eat steamed smoked cod with onions, mashed potato, cauli/broccoli cheese and carrots.
I look forward to this every year, I love it!

[RhiChiChi]

Today at lunchtime we went to a family friends house and we all bring a plate/dish of fish or seafood. We had heaps to choose from such as a lovely Thai prawn & crab meat salad, tuna bake, cod & pasta bake, seafood salad etc.... We just kicked back and talked, laughed and ate of course! lol For tonight we are having more fish. Both DH & I don't eat meat on Good Friday & will continue to do so and explain to our children why we don't. Whilst we aren't practising we do have a strong belief of not eating meat on Good Friday

[Amy_jellybean]

My family has never eaten meat on good friday.

DH is away at work at the moment so a friend and I had garlic and chilli praws, a barramundi fillet and salad for lunch, was yummo!

[AwesomeFoursome]

Today at lunchtime we went to a family friends house and we all bring a plate/dish of fish or seafood. We had heaps to choose from such as a lovely Thai prawn & crab meat salad, tuna bake, cod & pasta bake, seafood salad etc.... We just kicked back and talked, laughed and ate of course! lol For tonight we are having more fish. Both DH & I don't eat meat on Good Friday & will continue to do so and explain to our children why we don't. Whilst we aren't practising we do have a strong belief of not eating meat on Good Friday

Can someone explain to me why you don't eat meat but we eat fish on Good Friday in a way I can explain to my children? I have never eaten meat, always fish on good Friday but no one explained to me why we don't.

[Rouge]

We're having Baked Fish with Mushrooms, Tomato, & Cream with Angel Hair Pasta. Noms.

[Caz_88]

Yowie, the distinction is made along cold/warm blooded animals. (warm blooded "meat" was more rare and treasured, fish etc was considered affordable and readily available, so giving up fish would have had no meaning...... this is what I was taught anyway..... someone correct me if i'm wrong)

The no meat on friday was established as a penance for the death of jesus..... our tiny bit of suffering to acknowledge his etc.

Being that its meant to be a penance we really dont see it as such, its more just tradition now.... we have massive seafood platters of prawns, calimari, moreton bay bug, baby octopus and fish all home made..... its actually a bit of a big celebration here, which is kind of nice, but definately not a sacrifice!

[sushee]

We not only could not eat meat on Good Friday, we had fast and abstinence which meant we'd eat fish and bread, and very plainly, and could only drink water. And fish almost every Friday.

So now I'm having spag bol on Good Friday.