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)

@Elephantsareace because that's how I was brought up and it's stuck. I know it's ridiculous but still I stick to it!

I’m an atheist so will eat meat on Good Friday. My partner is a devout Catholic and eats fish every Friday of the year.

Atheist raised Catholic. I find myself especially enjoying when my main meal works out to be something like a bacon wrapped filet on Good Friday. Eating meat on Fridays and especially good Friday was one of my first forms of rebellion.

No
Was brought up in the Catholic religion and have never eaten meat on GF.

I'm a practicing Catholic and don't eat meat on Fridays. Occasionally I'll forget if I'm on holiday and out of routine.

I am not eating meat tomorrow but I usually cook a nice meal as its a Bank Holiday so don't want to be too hair shirt.

I don't fast on Ash Wednesday but would avoid meat unless its a problem like somone else cooked.

Pancakes for breakfast &Fish & Chips later.

We do.
Well, I don't specifically go out of my way to definitely have meat, but the fact it is Good Friday makes no difference to the food I eat, and it will commonly be meat at some point during the day.
I'm a Christian and a regular Church goer.
Until this thread, I understood it was only Catholics who didn't eat meat on a Friday.

I like things that put a shape and rhythm on the week and the year - Friday and Lenten fast, giving up alcohol in November, going to church and eating something a little special (and not working or shopping) on Sunday. They don't make me a better or a worse person, just situate me in time.

I don’t eat meat (or dairy) at all any day of the week. That is because my morals and spirituality are based on my beliefs to do as little harm as is possible to all beings and therefore nothing to do with the Christian faith.

@GoldenDoor because they weren't aware. I don't practice Ramadan but I'm aware of what it means.

Catholic. We eat peasant food in Good Friday. No big meals, red meats ok if leftovers etc.

Atheist here - normal day for us so no change to what we eat.

Not religious and vegan for over 50 years so it's all irrelevant to me personally, but I met an acquaintance in the supermarket yesterday who is Catholic and was buying fish for today.

I hadn't realised it was still a thing, I remember walking past a convent on a Friday when I was a child and my mum telling me they would be eating fish.

It wouldn't cross my mind not to eat meat on Good Friday, or any Friday.

Orthodox, so I eat vegan (does include shellfish/calamari + honey) for the whole of Lent. Can eat vertebrate fish on the annunciation & palm sunday. It’s not about ethics in the modern sense about animal rights/environmentalism etc, but a spiritual discipline of humbling and aligning your will to God’s will, giving up your “passions” and little or big addictions that hijack your limbic system and draw you away from relationship with the divine. We all eat food every day, and most of it now is highly stimulating, sugared and flavoured to appeal to our pleasure centres… eating simple Lenten foods like vegetables, salads, legumes and mussels feels like a profound spiritual and neurological reset and shift. I also do time restricted eating (20:4 ish), and feel a deep mental clarity in my fasting window. Another aspect is eating cheaply and humbly to save money and donate to the foodbank.

Eastern Easter isn’t till early May, so another month till I can tuck into the roast lamb & chocolate eggs 😋

Respect @DogandMog. Do you fast in Advent as well?

I’m eating meat and yogurt today (with vegetables and fruit. Blueberries cooked in a milk pan with TVP.

Welsh Nonconformist chapel by upbringing though I never go to chapel or church. Always fish on Good Friday and for my grandmothers it would be fish (usually fish and chips) every Friday.

I grew up in a Protestant family in a sectarian part of Scotland. My grandparents made a point of eating meat on Fridays (we had fish from the chippy on Saturdays), presumably in case the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland did a random visit looking for evidence that they weren't secret Catholics. My parents still have Saturday as their fish and chips day.

I don't give it any more thought now than I'd give to the dietary taboos of any other religious tradition that I don't subscribe to.

Random fact. A McDonald's franchisee introduced the Filet-O-Fish as sales of burgers dropped every Friday as his restaurant was in a predominantly Catholic area.

@DeanElderberry Yes, I do, though last year I had covid for the first 2 - 3 weeks and craved highly flavoured nourishing foods like marmite on buttery toast & chicken madras to recuperate, so I couldn’t adhere strictly to it for the first half. Advent is less strict as it’s pescatarian/vegan. The year before I managed it fully. The lamb/beef you eat again at Easter/Christmas is out of this world and makes all the dhals and butter bean & kale stews worth it. Also fast most wednesdays & fridays throughout the year to recognise the betrayal and cruxification.

I do so agree with this. That's one of the main things I love about religion and spirituality, to be honest!

That figures. I gave up meat for Lent and Advent a few times and got one infection after another. A Trappist friend once told me that he'd checked the archives for his monastery and found the average age at death for the community increased noticeably after the strict fasting regulations were relaxed post Vatican 2. Dark wet Irish winters are a challenge.