Do you eat meat on Good Friday?

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I'm CofE.. also Spiritualist.
I was confirmed CofE of my own choosing ( only one in family).
I go to Church when l choose to..
But one thing I've never done since l was 11 is eat meat on Good Friday.( I know some Catholics don't eat meat on every Friday)

Why can't you eat meat on Good Friday, or indeed any Friday? Particularly if you don't believe, it makes no sense. Just eat what you want, when you want.

We eat a varied diet, on various days, but as non-believers, don't follow any pattern. Why would we??

I make a point to. Not an organised religion fan

Not religious. Try to eat much less meat- for ecological reasons. Good Friday makes no difference to me.

We always have fish on Good Friday and no meat. Often do "fish Friday" throughout the year but not consistently. Lapsed CofE. Partner atheist. As an atheist said up thread, it's about traditions.

Genuinely don’t know the reasoning behind this so if anyone can save me a google and say why you can’t eat meat but fish???

Was raised a Catholic and went to a convent school, now atheist. I don’t remember eating fish on (Good) Fridays but my mum was an atheist, it was my dad that was an Irish Catholic and my mum did the cooking. I don’t eat fish but even if I did, I wouldn’t specifically eat it on Good Friday.

In the Middle Ages fish would not be… pleasant if not fresh. Meat is richer and more of a luxury.
More cynically meat supplies would be low this time of year.

we don’t eat meat on Good Friday, so it will be tuna salad for lunch and then home made cheese and onion plait for tea.

I'm not strict about it so it depends on what's going on and if I remember. What I do think is wrong though is employers not being aware. Years ago, I worked at a place where the boss bought everyone bacon rolls on Good Friday. I didn't have one and thought it was inappropriate and disrespectful.

Only fish. X

Fairweather Catholic here and it'll be fish for us. Imagine the guilt if not. 😉

Regardless of the day 🤣 we eat meat 7 days a week and some days have meat for all 3 meals!

No. We're having fish pie tomorrow

I was brought up high CoE
Every Friday was no meat, fish allowed.
Lent was no meat, and no fish (vegetarian) on Fridays.

It took me decades to realise that my DF was quite extreme.
But at the end of the day it has made me very flexible with my diet.

Something to do with body of Christ? Could be wrong

Catholics believe in transubstantiation which is that the Eucharist literally becomes the body and blood of Christ. Anglicans don't believe this, it's just representative for them and is one reason why the Catholic Church won't administer the Eucharist to Anglicans.

How can you find it inappropriate and disrespectful when you’ve said yourself you don’t always observe this tradition?

Normally I wouldn't, but I'm staying on a hotel for the triduim. Hopefully I'll remember to order a veggie breakfast instead of a meat one!

No meat on Good Friday - Catholic here - it's traditionally (religiously) a day of fasting and abstinence and so the no meat rule is the most visible 'fasting' and the one which has stuck around most strongly afaik. My husband is no religion at all but also doesn't eat meat on GF, presumably for traditional reasons?

I have also given up alcohol for lent which I have done a few other years too so looking forward to Sunday (although actually haven't missed the booze very much tbh).

Wouldn't purposely avoid meat on a Good Friday. Couldn't give a toss about tomorrow. That's my business.

Have you seen the queues at the chippies on Good Fridays to get fish & chips!

If I want to. The day means nothing to me.

Can't think if I do or not so suppose I do eat meat on Good Friday! I do give up alcohol for Lent though.

I don't eat fish though, can't stand it. So would rather have chicken if it was a choice of that or fish.

No, don't like fish unless it comes from the chip shop accompanied by chips. Also I do not follow the christian faith so don't feel any need to follow its traditions. I expect we will have the pumpkin and pine nut ravioli that's sitting in the fridge, or something else veggie, because I have failed to get any meat out of the freezer for tomorrow.

No, we don't.

Not religious at all. I grew up with no meat on Good Friday though and my mum telling me it was like eating the flesh of Christ. She was very serious about it.

Still not religious but I could never bring myself to eat meat on GF now, it's too ingrained in me.

I was raised a Catholic, became agnostic and extremely anti Catholic and then reverted to Catholicism. A decade ago would never have dreamt that I'd be writing that last sentence but here we are.

I won't be eating meat on Good Friday. My husband will as he's lapsed Catholic. Good Friday is a weird name for it and is debated - maybe from Gotte's Friday in German or something medieval like good meaning holy.

For Christians Easter is even more important than Christmas so overall it's a good thing. Happy Easter!