Do people's parents still get thick about eating meat on Ash Wed/Good Friday?

whisky_galore

Well?

yourdeadwright

As a grown man with his own family, my parents aren't worried about what I eat at all,
My ma would still stick to no meat on them days and my da does the same just because she'll be the one cooking  
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eviltwin

I'm an adult. Who gives a fcuk what my parent thinks?

Kimbot

Its ok, I spiked her tea with sprinkles of ham so she cant lecture me later when I feast on a steak

Sleepy

I have a bag of FX Buckleys finest fillet steak beside me right now. Looking forward to dinner tonight!

My mother would expect no less, I've been a devout atheist for over 2 decades at this stage.

pilly

My mother still cooks fish every Friday but more out of habit now than anything else. She'd never pass comment about what others eat though.

filbert the fox

you know I've always enjoyed asking the faithful what plant group Cod comes from.....

_Dara_

I remember the day in about third year of school that a busybody in my year started laying into to me for eating a ham sandwich on Ash Wednesday. I was a finicky eater struggling with an eating disorder at the time. Getting food into myself was very important. I still can't believe it now that a girl I didn't really know that well felt that my eating meat on a Catholic holy day was any of her business.

jimgoose

filbert the fox wrote: »

you know I've always enjoyed asking the faithful what plant group Cod comes from.....

The Roman Catholic fish thing has nothing whatsoever to do with vegetableism. The abstinence is from "warm-blooded-flesh", so technically reptile is allowed. But is has to do with the original disciples being fishermen and Christ himself cooking fish for them, and the subsequent use of a fish symbol as a secret Christian identifier.

seamus

My father's a de facto atheist and my mother left the Catholic church about 20 years ago. So, no.

The mother in law would probably be strict on it for herself and the husband except that she's vegetarian so most meals have no trace of meat for anyone.

Mtx

Eat meat on that day=thrown out of the house

Hande hoche!

Won't be eating meat today, have a dose of gastroenteritis.

Cantona's Collars

Hande hoche! wrote: »

Won't be eating meat today, have a dose of gastroenteritis.

Ass Wednesday. :)

splinter65

filbert the fox wrote: »

you know I've always enjoyed asking the faithful what plant group Cod comes from.....

....and when they tell you that it’s not a “no meat” day, Is it that you don’t understand what that means?

I observe it even though I'm not religious. My mother and father and parents in law are very religious. The wife is a mass goer too. I had a long enough battle about me not going to mass. So I decided to respect the tradition for the peace and its good to respect other peoples traditions Besides I make a savage fish pie and I have 363 days a year where I can eat meat.

splinter65

Sleepy wrote: »

I have a bag of FX Buckleys finest fillet steak beside me right now. Looking forward to dinner tonight!

My mother would expect no less, I've been a devout atheist for over 2 decades at this stage.

So sharp and edgy I think I’ve almost cut myself....

corner of hells

[Deleted User] wrote: »

I observe it even though I'm not religious. My mother and father and parents in law are very religious. The wife is a mass goer too. I had a long enough battle about me not going to mass. So I decided to respect the tradition for the peace and its good to respect other peoples traditions Besides I make a savage fish pie and I have 363 days a year where I can eat meat.

Erm , is there another day Catholics can't eat meat ?

seamus

splinter65 wrote: »

....and when they tell you that it’s not a “no meat” day, Is it that you don’t understand what that means?

Fish is meat.

jimgoose

corner of hells wrote: »

Erm , is there another day Catholics can't eat meat ?

Real, fundamentalist Orthodox Roman Catholics won't eat meat on any Friday on account of the Crucifixion, but they don't make much noise about it.

meeeeh

Parents on both sides observe it more or less but they don't care what we do.
We don't intentionaly observe it but we would have fish once or twice per week. So it will be fish today and tomorrow this week. My kids love me.

corner of hells

jimgoose wrote: »

Real, fundamentalist Orthodox Roman Catholics won't eat meat on any Friday on account of the Crucifixion, but they don't make much noise about it.

Ahhh , so we're Catholic light lite .

jimgoose

corner of hells wrote: »

Ahhh , so we're Catholic light lite .

Exactly. Ach, 'tis a fine barn but sure it is no Catholic, English.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

seamus wrote: »

Fish is meat.

The rules around days of abstinence clearly state "fish and all cold-blooded animals may be eaten"

corner of hells

Ephraim Miniature Dust wrote: »

The rules around days of abstinence clearly state "fish and all cold-blooded animals may be eaten"

Would penguins be classed as cold blooded ?

seamus

Ephraim Miniature Dust wrote: »

The rules around days of abstinence clearly state "fish and all cold-blooded animals may be eaten"

Cheers, just wanted to point out that it's not a "no meat" rule. If it comes from an animal, it's meat.

Animals include mammals, fish, birds, snakes, spiders, frogs, etc.

corner of hells

corner of hells wrote: »

Erm , is there another day Catholics can't eat meat ?

No meat in my house good Friday and ash Wednesday

_Dara_

Ephraim Miniature Dust wrote: »

The rules around days of abstinence clearly state "fish and all cold-blooded animals may be eaten"

Komodo dragon stew it is so. :P

branie2

I don't eat meat on Ash Wednesday or Good Friday

And while we're on the subject, Catholics aren't supposed to eat meat on any Friday during Lent

pilly

_Dara_ wrote: »

Komodo dragon stew it is so. :P

Ah don't, reminds me of the time my cat bit the head of my komodo.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

_Dara_ wrote: »

Komodo dragon stew it is so. :P

I had Iguana Stew in Guyana many years ago. Disgusting stuff, if memory serves me right - chewy too. It's often served in a curry in Jamaica.

whatdoicare

Just eat duck or Swan - that's technically considered fish in the priest handbook

Also, I'm typing this while eating a meatball sub, so meh, my folks haven't cared in years what I eat.