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To hate it being called pancake tuesday

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scrambledeggsandbeans · 07/02/2024 15:55

Just that really, it's shrove Tuesday it is the traditional feast day before the start of Lent on Ash Wednesday. Lent – the 40 days leading up to Easter – was traditionally a time of fasting

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HowdidImanagetohavetwoaccountaandthenloseboth · 10/02/2024 12:57

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HoneyButterPopcorn · 10/02/2024 13:08

I really want a pancake now.

Chickenkeev · 10/02/2024 13:25

OchonAgusOchonOh · 10/02/2024 12:08

@HowdidImanagetohavetwoaccountaandthenloseboth

Even when I used to eat meat, I was never the biggest fan of fish. It might have had something to do with the penance my mother served up every Friday - fish boiled in milk🤮

Poor beavers though.

Oh god, fish boiled in milk brings back memories 🤢 the culprit was my father, who conveniently absented himself when it came it having to excavating the remnants from the bottom of the pot!

OchonAgusOchonOh · 10/02/2024 13:29

@Chickenkeev - sorry. Hope I haven't traumatised you too much by bringing up (🤮literally) the fish in milk

Chickenkeev · 10/02/2024 13:35

OchonAgusOchonOh · 10/02/2024 13:29

@Chickenkeev - sorry. Hope I haven't traumatised you too much by bringing up (🤮literally) the fish in milk

I've taken to the bed 😂 it has brought up strong memories though, the silver pots we with metallic green lids we had that my parents had gotten as wedding presents (that were virtually indestructible!). The way smell of the fish managing to permeate every nook and cranny of the house. The fights amongst the siblings about who would get stuck with the washing rather than the cake walk that was drying the dishes....

Fink · 10/02/2024 15:38

Abhannmor · 10/02/2024 12:48

If beavers are kosher - so to speak- why not otters? I bet fishmongers were well naused off when the Vatican said ' hey lads that no meat on Fridays is a bit dated, so it's not a mortal sin now'

Actually, otters are OK too, just maybe not as tasty or common? Other things classified as not meat include amphibians and other semi-aquatic mammals (hippos, if you're brave enough to try to hunt one!). Some of these became more relevant with the christianisation of the Americas.

Also, no meat Fridays haven't been abrogated, although it would be interesting to chart how fishing-related industries have fared in big Catholic countries compared to other countries in the past 60 years. The Vatican made a concession that, subject to local regulations, you could substitute the Friday abstinence for a different penance (e.g. visiting the sick, extra prayers ...), but the no meat option was still the default. It was intended to help people who really had nothing else to eat and where total fasting wouldn't be medically advisable. But they soon found that people interpreted the 'penance of your choice' option as 'don't bother anymore', so the abstinence from meat has been promoted again in some places. In England and Wales (which are a united Catholic jurisdiction, separate from Scotland and Ireland), abstinence from meat has been reintroduced as the universal rule since 2011, to be substituted by another food for those who already don't eat meat.

Aoine, the Irish word for Friday, means 'fasting'. But in Ireland the bishops' conference haven't reinstated obligatory no-meat Fridays, they've just gently hinted that it might be a nice idea on Fridays in Lent. 😁

E17Stowmum · 10/02/2024 20:16

We call it Shrove Tuesday and love the pancakes so much that we ask why we don't have Pancake Day every week. So why don't we? That is a bigger mystery.

Emotionalsupportviper · 10/02/2024 21:26

E17Stowmum · 10/02/2024 20:16

We call it Shrove Tuesday and love the pancakes so much that we ask why we don't have Pancake Day every week. So why don't we? That is a bigger mystery.

Same here - every year we say "We should have them every week! And we all agree that this would be brilliant.

And then we don't have them again for a year . . .

Emotionalsupportviper · 10/02/2024 21:27

E17Stowmum · 10/02/2024 20:16

We call it Shrove Tuesday and love the pancakes so much that we ask why we don't have Pancake Day every week. So why don't we? That is a bigger mystery.

<wonders if the chip shop does battered hippo>

<wonders if it will be filleted>

sashh · 11/02/2024 02:25

OchonAgusOchonOh · 10/02/2024 09:41

Mine was run by nuns too. They did expect us to have ladylike careers though - teacher, nurse or secretary

Oh yes, but only until you got married.

On the subject of eating fish on a Friday, I think duck is permitted too.

Oh the day the kitchen staff cooked meat on a day of fasting and abstinence. Sr Mary Joseph had to phone the bishop to get some sort of dispensation to allow us to eat our school dinners.

Fink · 11/02/2024 07:46

On the subject of eating fish on a Friday, I think duck is permitted too.

No, duck and other birds are off the menu. Stick to your hippo and alligator!

Thementalloadisreal · 12/02/2024 18:31

Happy Pancake Day Eve 🥞

Lapun · 12/02/2024 22:07

I sm from Liverpool and we called it Pancake Tuesday. As a C of E mrmber it is Shrove Tuesday followed by Ash Wednesday and Lent. But as our religious faith seems to be less important in todays world i guess we have to accept many people do not even know the religious significance of these days.

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