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Do you eat meat on Good Friday?

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BocolateChiscuit · 19/04/2019 18:42

I’m not a Christian but was brought up going to Sunday school etc with my grandparents. Neither of my parents are religious at all either but we were brought up that you don’t eat meat on Good Friday. Every year I have this battle with myself! It’s irrational I know and my teen DS has been laughing when I suggested we have fish today saying ‘but you don’t even believe in God!’ He’s right I know but it’s almost become a weird superstition to me now. I’m not even superstitious! Maybe just odd? Grin

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Foundring · 19/04/2019 19:48

Yes.

But I spoke to Jezza earlier and he said he didn’t mind so 🤷‍♀️

ComeOnGordon · 19/04/2019 19:51

I live in a very catholic part of the world - nearly everyone is eating fish and seasonal vegetables. I’m an athiest so we had

The church bells are also not ringing and it’s all very footloose - no music and no dancing.

ComeOnGordon · 19/04/2019 19:52

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AuditAngel · 19/04/2019 19:54

I had cheese for lunch and we’re having fish for dinner. DH and the kids had prawns for lunch

EleanorOalike · 19/04/2019 19:57

No meat at all and it’s also a day of fasting and abstinence so only one large meal and two smaller meals, no snacks etc in between. I am religious.

Re the Catholic church saying you can eat meat on Fridays mentioned upthread - it was reinstated in 2011 so practicing Catholics are obliged to abstain from meat every Friday, not just those in Lent. In addition, Ash Wednesday and Good Friday are days of Fasting and Abstinence so the one big meal and two smaller meals I mentioned earlier.

AndNoneForGretchenWieners · 19/04/2019 20:00

No, but I'm not really sure why. I wasn't brought up in a religious household, and grew up eating meat on GF. Since meeting DH, who wasn't in the slightest religious, I got into the habit of not eating meat on GF because he had never done so. So for the last 20 years it has been Fish Friday. It felt a bit weird this year without DH and I almost forgot! But remembered in time to uphold our family tradition.

Much as DS rolls his eyes at this, he cooked his own tea tonight because I was at work and he's on nights, and I was very amused that he had fish finger butties!

AvocadosBeforeMortgages · 19/04/2019 20:56

No, but then I haven't eaten it for 16 years!

bibbitybobbityyhat · 19/04/2019 21:01

Yes, Good Friday has no significance for me other than a day off work and the green light to eat hot cross buns. I'm British, in my mid 50s and have only been to church for other people's weddings, christenings and one midnight mass.

Bowchicawowow · 19/04/2019 21:04

I am Catholic and live in a massively Catholic area. We always have fish on Good Friday. The chippies has queues around the block.

Greensleeves · 19/04/2019 21:08

Big fat atheist sausages for dinner here.

My Catholic relatives will be having fish, though.

RainbowMum11 · 19/04/2019 21:10

We had fish & chips, but because it's normally fish Friday at school for DD and I couldn't be arsed to cook.

CherryPavlova · 19/04/2019 21:11

No. A day of ‘fasting’ with money saved going to CAFOD. Today nothing until supper then smoked salmon with scrambled eggs on toast. We have wine though.

woodhill · 19/04/2019 21:12

Yes had fish, tend to eat it on a Friday anyway

FlibbertyGiblets · 19/04/2019 21:14

We had fish pie and hot cross buns. Not religious. Just porkers.

SilverySurfer · 19/04/2019 21:22

I'm an atheist so yes of course I eat meat whenever I want to. If you are religious do you seriously believe that god cares whether you eat meat or not?

FlibbertyGiblets · 19/04/2019 21:22

Oh and we shared an easter egg raffle prize too.

Toddlerteaplease · 19/04/2019 21:23

Practicing Catholic, good Friday is the only day I won't eat meat. The bishops conference tried to encourage meat free Fridays again a few years ago. I've ever got in the habit of it though. I ate far to many hot cross buns instead!

Toddlerteaplease · 19/04/2019 21:24

Even as a child. Was c of e the we never ate meat.

MonkeyToesOfDoom · 19/04/2019 21:26

I had chicken curry and naan bread and couple of hot cross buns.

troppibambini · 19/04/2019 21:31

No, no meat on good Friday. I'm catholic and the kids at a catholic school who don't serve meat on Fridays anyway.

flameycakes · 19/04/2019 21:34

Christened C of E as a baby then Catholic when my mother remarried an Irish bloke, convent girl, totally lapsed and on a way different path now, but still fish on Friday, salmon and couscous today, usually home made fish in batter and chips, but fancied a change today x

TheTurnOfTheScrew · 19/04/2019 21:34

we have fish
we're not catholic, not any form of christian in fact, but i much prefer fish to meat and will happily pull rank over meat-obsessed DH on the basis of Tradition.

isittheholidaysyet · 19/04/2019 21:35

No meat here today.

But I'm a practising Catholic in England, so all our Fridays are meat free.

Half the kids had scrambled eggs on toast for lunch, the other half had spaghetti hoops.
Tea was vegetable fajitas.
(Hot cross buns this morning at the Anglican church as well)

As it's good Friday, I've been trying to fast a bit, doing quite well, but it's hitting me now.

magicalleeks · 19/04/2019 21:37

No, no meat. Practising Catholic.

Out of sheer habit I do usually make fish on a Friday.

doubleshotespresso · 19/04/2019 21:42

No meat here today but then that would be the case any given Friday to be honest

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