Fish on Good Friday - What are you having??

[Traveller]

Growing up it was trout or salmon, but now I am the chef I don;t cook fish because bleurgh so we had homemade burgers on the BBQ, nom nom nom.

[Liviam]

I couldn't eat meat on Good Friday either for both religious and traditional reason. My children will also be taught the reason behind no meat on Good Friday and will always have a fish based dinner on Good Friday.

Since I'm all by my lonesone tonight (a completley different woohoo!!!!) I am going to have Fish & Chips with McDonald coke and large chocolate sunday for dessert - spoiling myself just a little bit!!!

[nothing2lose]

Growing up it was trout or salmon, but now I am the chef I don;t cook fish because bleurgh so we had homemade burgers on the BBQ, nom nom nom.

What are you trying to say Trav?

[feeb]

Have always had fish on good friday.

For lunch I had Tuna on toast and soup at work and dinner I am cooking Barramundi and baked potatoes for us and Flathead tails for the kids.

[Netix]

Home crumbed basa (the budget was a little tight), oven baked, with hassleback potatoes, corn on the cob, and a couple of other veges.

[nothing2lose]

Just realized I didn't mention what we are having...

DP is making chilli and garlic prawns with bok choy and either rice or noodles.

[PumpkinZulu]

Fish and chips

[Joeve]

We just had fillet of fish!!!
Maccas style

[Amaunet]

We had baked seafood crepes, delicious

[Heaven]

We don't eat meat on Good Friday. We had fish for lunch and just pasta with no meat for dinner.

[OceanPrincess]

We had calamari, prawns and oysters for lunch with chips. Well I had calamari and two prawns, just cuz.

Dinner was spaghetti marinara.

We do it for religious reasons... But interestingly, as someone pointed out, nowhere in the bible does it say you can't eat red meat on Good Friday. And apparently, the whole "fish on Good Friday" thing was actually started by Italian fish merchants who were struggling and wanted a way to break into the catholic market... So they made up this thing about the body of Christ. I'm pretty sure Catholics eat fish every Friday???

Anyway DH thinks its funny that I have this thing about fish on Good Friday when it was a commercially-driven tradition, much like Santa and Valentine's Day. But much like Santa and V Day, we still observe it

[Netix]

My fish was not at all nice. Contemplating a drive to the 24hr maccas for a fillet of fish. It would be a dramatic improvement on what I dooked!

[Maruschke]

I must be going straight to hell in a handbasket . I had bacon and ham and cold prawns LOL.

[nothing2lose]

So, DP surprised me. The prawns were an entree. Main was salmon fillet poached in white wine, lemon and herbs, served with bernaise sauce (and salad).

I'm a lucky girl

[~Gee_Whizzy~]

I'm pretty sure Catholics eat fish every Friday???

only the 'hardcore' ones, like my Pa

i know for me, growing up we ate fish every Friday for the 40 days of Lent.



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[meow]

This is all confusing, fish IS meat! I don't get when people say they don't eat meat... but then go on to say the fish they ate?

I grew up eating fish on Good Friday just for cultural tradition sake- my family wasn't religious. My mum told me it was because Jesus died on Good Friday so you weren't supposed to eat "the blood of christ" on that day... so everyone eats fish as they don't have red blood. I figured a vegetarian meal would be just as appropriate but people are so obsessed with meat that they eat fish.

[Tegam]

We are catholic and will go to church.... I do not do fish on Friday. But we all pick something we like for lent

[Heaven]

Meow- you're not supposed to eat red meat. It is supposed to be a type of fasting. Traditionally you're supposed to abstain from red meat every Wednesday and Friday of lent. So yeah, then having an elaborate seafood meal that you enjoy instead is kind of missing the point. But most people aren't thinking of the religious reasons any more.